Eschach (Aitrach)

Headwaters of the Eschach

The Eschach is a 35 km long river in Allgäu, Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg, the combined flows on the boundary of the city Wuchzenhofen Leutkirch im Allgäu from the right and south with the slightly larger Wurzacher Oh for Aitrach.

Name

The first short section of the river the Eschach still bears the old name or Nibel Niebel, of which the original name of the area through which Nibelgau derived.

River

The Eschach arises as Niebel or Nibel in the Bavarian district Oberallgaeu about a kilometer west of the mountain book Eschach on the eastern edge of the Buchberger Forest, which adjoins the south-east to the Adelegg, a northern Alpine foothills. Your source is there to around 1092 m above sea level about 2.5 km from the Änger ( 1122.6 m above sea level. ) From Hohenkapf ( 1122 m) in the west-north- west and about 2 km in the south-southwest; Eschacher the pond is located about 1 km south of the origin.

The passage of Eschach turns before the said pond to the west and then flows, it follows the Bavarian- Württemberg border, along the more and more eastern slope of the main ridge of the Adelegg over book mountain Kreuzthal north until they at Leutkircher district Schmidsfelden from the right Kuernach receives. Then it flows through the district Leutkircher Emerlanden and further into a broad and shallow valley in directions between west and north, passing among others at Leutkircher district Friesenhofen. Then traverses northward the core city of Leutkirch and joins in arcades in the district of the city Wuchzenhofen to 625.1 m height with the coming of the left Wurzacher Oh for Aitrach which opens at Mooshausen in the Iller.

At about 6 km long, flowing above the Eschach Leutkirchs up to 2 m above the ground level.

Level

The level of Eschach varies greatly. In the summer months, the river bed dry out partially, so that the Eschach is only a trickle. After heavy rainfall and during the snow melt in the spring, the level can swell up. In earlier times, the Eschach cared for regularly floods in Leutkirch.

Fish fauna

The Eschach belongs mostly to the grayling region. The Leitfisch is the grayling here. Moreover, even bullhead, chub, dace, brown trout and rainbow trout are found. Sporadic also white fish and pike found on the waters.

Flood protection

On the edge of Eschach especially south of the Leutkircher core city (today Insyer settlement ) occurred frequently floods. In the 1930s, because of the Fetzachmoos was created. Exceeds a certain level, the river, the water is directed into the moss and impounded there. Mid-1990s was also an approximately 13 -acre retention basin, the basin stone barn, built near the Fetzachmooses order to relieve it in heavy floods. Both Einstaumöglichkeiten together can hold about 5 million cubic meters of water.

During construction of the stone barn basin, the population of the city Leutkirch partly reacted with incomprehension that we spent several million marks for a "hole". A year after the completion of the pelvis proven at Pentecost 1999. The level of Eschach increased due to snow melt combined with heavy rains to over 2.5 m height at the level Friesenhofen. Up to 15 cubic meters of water per second flowed through the city, under the bridges were only a few centimeters of air. This was particularly dangerous entrained bulky floating debris, such as uprooted trees.