Eschbach (Nidda)

Schematic drawing of Eschbach and the headwaters

The Eschbach in Ober-Eschbach

The Eschbach is a creek in the state of Hesse in Germany. It rises east of the Great Feldberg Mountain in the Taunus and ends at Frankfurt- Harheim in the Nidda.

Name

The name portion of ash is due to Ascapah. Eschbach means the stream, growing on the ash trees.

Course

The Eschbach has no own source. It arises from the confluence of several individual streams that originate above Bad Homburg or Oberursel. For this purpose, a scheme for source streams:

• Bach from the Roeder Meadows

• Bach from Herzberg
• Bach from the Braumannswiesen
• Lohrbach

• Bach (referred to sources in Oberursel, in cards often than Dornbach ) from the gold mine
• Lotze Grundbach

In general, the Heuchelbach is regarded as the longest and richest source water before Bach, and for historical reasons, as the headwaters of Eschbach. Accordingly, a sign Eschbach source is at its source in Habig Born ( 490 m above sea level. NN ) ..

The brook flows around Kirdorfer artificially Jubiläumspark and spa gardens in Bad Homburg and feeds it to the local pond. The Heuchelbach feeds the castle pond. Made headlines the spike stream in January 2003, when he resigned after heavy rains overflowed its banks and the Bad Homburg interlocking sat under water, which paralyzed all traffic on the railway line S5. Between Urseler street and train station, the current in a concrete tunnel Dornbach to be exposed again in the course of the planned construction of an office park.

In the districts of Bad Homburg Ober-Eschbach or Gonzenheim the streams unite to Eschbach. At the exit the only sewage treatment plant is located on the creek. Especially in summer, it brings the creek many times more water than he himself performs. After crossing under the A 5 reaches the creek Frankfurt Nieder-Eschbach. On the outskirts here flows from the right coming from Oberursel- Bommersheim Taunengraben to. Its main tributary is the source Herrnweidgraben. The previously existing in Frankfurt Nieder-Eschbach mill race was drained in the course of restoration work, the former weir in a ground sill umgewandelt.Frankfurt - Nieder-Eschbach is prone to flooding after heavy rain because of the high degree of sealing in Eschbach catchment ( Bad Homburg ). Below Harheim opens the stream in the Nidda.

Within Bad Homburg Eschbach previously had a substantial economic significance. Probably in the 14th century the Hubbach was derived as a ditch from Heuchelbach on Götz Mill Lane near a still existing, former effort led around the old town and the castle passed into the ponds. These were the main urban mills, the upper and the lower mill, as a reservoir. From Dornbach also water was derived. Not far from the square mountain, where from Oberstedten once were 14 mills, began near the mouth of the creek from the bonanza an additional channel that led to the castle pond. For the operation of Saline and Soden mill, where today the Russian Chapel, even a tunnel from today Hessenring under the Luis road was dug by the saline in the 17th century.

Ecological

Summer over the fall the headwaters of the Eschbaches sometimes dry or carry only minimal water. This is especially true for the Heuchelbach and Kirdorfer Bach, in whose catchment area much groundwater from the clefts of the rocks will be deducted for drinking water. The Eschbach leads then only below the wastewater treatment plant back enough water. Therefore most fish species are found only behind the treatment plant. It involves more robust species such as loach or chub. Signal crayfish are also present, amazingly, even in shallow water in Ober-Eschbach. In the upper reaches of the creek Kirdorfer still find sticklebacks. Lately, more often small to medium sized specimens of brown trout were observed in the remaining surfaces of the upper Eschbacher watercourse. On Cold water is available at Dornholzhausen near the Deer Garden Forellengut with a commercial inn, since the water is still cool and clean. From the feedback, however, the water is contaminated by the excretions of many farmed fish.

Apart from the upper regions of the source rivers (Level I) is the Eschbach in the water quality Tier II, behind the treatment plant then II III.

With heavy rains high amounts of wastewater are passed through some rain overflows and stormwater overflow tanks in the stream quickly. Therefore, a large overflow basins will be constructed to reduce the polluted discharges near the sewage treatment plant.

However, the water structure quality is usually very poor, since the streams mainly to Bad Homburg area changed ( detour around the park ) and partly in concrete channels or were laid under tunnel (see scheme), which represents a maximum change.

Neophytes are partly very common. The Himalayan balsam is to be found already immediately below the Forellenguts. The Japanese knotweed has established itself in many places where the shore was straightened. A population the size of a tennis court can be found in Dornholzhausen on Kirdorfer Bach. It stands on the former landfill adjacent to the golf course and is there " down hiked " the slope. Due to the severe erosion in this area, it will also stream down the road. Since the landfill itself is threatened by the creek now, the creek will be a few meters away from the slope, laid.

Pictures

The brook flows around the Kirdorfer Kurpark Bad Homburg in a gutter

The cold water just before Forellengut

The Heuchelbach behind the " Deer Park "

End of the tunnel of Heuchelbach and thorn creek. The streams flow 50 m previously together in the tunnel

In the region of renatured weir before Nieder-Eschbach

Artificial leadership in Nieder- Eschbach

Confluence with the Nidda near Frankfurt - Harheim