Federbach (Alb)

Spring creek in Bietigheim

The spring creek is about 41 km long river in Baden- Württemberg. It flows through the districts of Karlsruhe and Rastatt and opens today at the Karlsruhe district Maxau in the Alb.

The headwaters located in the municipality of paint on the edge of the Black Forest. In contrast to other water bodies through the right upper Rhine valley of the spring creek flowing from Malsch to first southwest, then at Muggensturm west and accompanied by the entry into the Rhine valley the stream a short distance to the north a long time.

The spring creek course has been heavily modified by human intervention from the early 18th century until the 1930s. The water management and ecological pilot project development concept spring creek valley from 1993 had the natural development of the spring Bach and his lowland areas to target. The planned activities were carried out in 14 phases from 1995 to 2009.

Geography

The headwaters of the spring brook spring in the northern Black Forest and unite in the foothills in Malsch to the village stream. Even in Malsch the creek is divided again, the Lindenhardterweg - stream flows northwest into the Malscher Landgraben and the spring creek turns to the southwest and flows through the Kinzig Murg- channel contrary to their original flow direction to Rastatt. There, the stream turns in an arc to the north and enters through the lower terrace in the Rhine valley.

Headwaters

The two headwaters of the spring brook originate in the Black Forest to the south and southwest of Malsch. As a natural streams it flow through a forest and meadows in the northern Black Forest and the adjacent foothills. In Malsch the shorter Tannelgraben (Kaufmann Brunnenbach ) in the Walpertsbach (forest Precht Bach), who thus to the village Bach ( colloquially feminine, the Bach) is. Opens

Course

The spring creek arises in the local area of ​​Malsch, about 100 m southwest of the intersection of L 607 and L 608 at the beginning of the road on spring creek. From here he runs his first two kilometer than road or dirt track accompanying trench to the southwest and then almost in a westerly direction on Muggensturm. Here is to his left the nature reserve marsh and wetlands of the spring brook fracture, bounded on the south by the Neugraben running since the Malscher sports area to the left of the spring brook and tapers him at the eastern edge of Muggensturm after the break area. The spring creek happened Muggensturm in the south and then runs westward to the junction Rastatt the Federal Highway 5 (A 5), which he crossed about seven kilometers below its origin, and then the next three kilometers, a soon to straight north- western art run by to draw forest area.

West of the Nature Theater of Ötigheim then separates from it the more flowing in a north- northwesterly direction detention ditch which drained via the Altmurg in the Murg. He himself henceforth flows in a northerly direction. West of him against the Ötigheim sports complex forming now the old spring creek in the woods, his Altlauf who pulls his left in natural meanders through Streitwald, Dammwald and upper forest, while he himself then the central in the open hallway in his artificial bed Ötigheim, Bietigheim and Durmersheim happens in the West, where from its district Würmersheim in the west after a sweeping loop of these old spring creek after 8.7 km run again flows into him.

At the northwest edge of Durmersheim he shortens in northern grave run from his old West loop, which today is called Kunz Bach and drained via the the 7.5 km long deep ditch Lach large areas at Elchesheim -Illingen and Au am Rhein to him. Here he makes himself south of Rheinstetten - Neuburgweier in old run a west loop and then passes on its southeast edge of the village, where there is less than a mile from the parallel to the northwest -flowing Rhine. Then he moves to the northeast between staggered flood embankments of the Rhine river, crosses it with the tank ditch, which drains from Rheinfelden - Mörsch coming over the Fermasee into the Rhine; east of the waters crossing another age spring creek begins its course.

After the spring creek in the floodplain forest Kastenwört occurs where it flows into the southeastern Daxlandener Altrheinarm after a total of about 27 km. But this he left to the northeast again and pulls as New spring creek through the floodplain forest great land to the Green Water, another dead water, which he leaves close to the Rhine in the northern direction, whereupon the same from the right (second ) Old spring creek after 8.4 kilometers own run flows into him. He then passes under a culvert at the Rhine port - steam power plant, the connection pool of the Karlsruhe harbor at the mouth area and beyond occurs in riverine forest around the lake Knielinger again as a spring creek to light. It runs half way around the 83 -acre lake on the route of an old eastern Rhine loop, then flows briefly through him and replaces him dortiger tip from northeast. He passed the Karlsruhe driver training area and then flows immediately at Karlsruhe- Maxau on the bridge of the federal highway 10 (B 10) from the left in the Alb.

Depth

The spring creek is initially deep about 30 cm, only from Bietigheim it reaches a depth of 50 cm. At the mouth at Karlsruhe ( Maxau ) it is 1.5 m deep.

Neighboring places

• Malsch
• Muggensturm
• Rastatt ( district )
• Ötigheim
• Bietigheim
• Durmersheim,
• Rheinstetten - Neuburgweier
• Karlsruhe

History, Altläufe, Nature

The spring creek was turned over in 1900 between Bietigheim and Durmersheim in a new river east of the old spring brook. This channel-like run was widened in 1929 because the city wanted to employ during the Great Depression the unemployed. The spring creek is why today between Bietigheim and Durmersheim wider than necessary.

Between Durmersheim and Rheinstetten the new spring creek run shortens the old loop of today Kunz Bach.

The second stop spring creek that east created the waters crossing at Neuburgweier and on the north- west exterior flows past the outskirts of Rheinstetten - Forchheim on Kastenwört, uses an even deeper Ostschlinge of the Rhine at Daxlanden as line and separates the village in the east of the valley of the Fritsch laughter in the sling.

The spring creek has long served as a drainage ditch, 200 years before unpurified water was introduced into it. Today, the waste water is clarified and the neighboring places are derived directly only the rain water in the creek. On spring creek usually are undemanding plants such as poplars.

Structures

Durmersheim: About 30 m east of the spring brook is built in the 15th century Bickesheimer Church in Durmersheim. In the south of the mountian is still an old mill from the 16th century. The whole place Durmersheim six bridges over the stream, which is about seven meters wide. West of the spring is the spring Bach Bach Stadium, which was named after the river. There is near a high school, a youth center, a skate park with a playground and a sports hall.

Bietigheim: Here lead five bridges over the spring creek, three of which are in agricultural ways.

Moore and fractures

At the headwaters of the spring brook, between Malsch and Muggensturm there are more than 40 acres of spring creek break. Between Durmersheim and Neuburgweier is the spring creek valley. Both areas are protected.