Ernsbach (Kocher)

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The Ernsbach is a creek in the Hohenlohe region in northern Baden- Württemberg 2.5 km long which ends at Forchtenberg - Ernsbach from the right in the cooker.

Geography

Source and course

The Ernsbach rises in the extreme east of the township of Jagsthausen in the forest Won Old Ernsbach to about 332 m above sea level. NN. The nearest settlement site is the Schöntaler hamlet Spitzenhof approximately 600 m east-southeast. The creek flows about 400 m southwest to west, reached the limit for free corridor and then turns slowly to the south-southeast.

An incoming Edelmannshof from the west dirt road crosses it where it has already reached a southerly direction, then the first sparse wood shows on the left flank. The hanging - left the Schellenberg, on the right Hasensprung - of the subsequent transfer to the Ernsbacher district already about 70 meters deep basin are then covered up to the village itself, at least one side completely with forest. The creek flows through between two close Aussiedlerhofgruppen on the right and the left Talhügel, then pulls out west from Holzweiler yard Coming a link road through a side trough the valley that the creek until after Ernsbach follows in, and there is, fountains walkways.

He reached the settlement boundary of Ernsbach verdolt and so passes through the village to the south in about 100 meters below the boiler bridge to a total of 2.5 km run at about 185 m above sea level. NN from right to terminate in the cooker.

Catchment area

The Ernsbach has a catchment area of about 1.9 km ². It is bordered to the north by the influx of Jagst by the Berlichinger Pfaff blade, on the east by that of how he and with a similar course to the digester flowing Stelzersklingenbachs. Throughout the southern area of the boiler itself competes in the western sections of the dry Kalbach, who achieved this in Are rings. In the northwest runs beyond the watershed of a longer dry valley after Jagsthausen to Jagst ( Wester Talk compacts with longer southern road through Red background).

The village Ernsbach is the only settlement on the stream, in the catchment area are also some newer most farms the right and left of the middle reaches.

Geology

The Ernsbachs runs in the Lower Keuper and Muschelkalk.