Finkenbach (Laxbach)
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The Finke stream is a body of water in the southern Odenwald getting together at Hirschhorn with the Ulfenbach to Laxbach and then soon flows into the Neckar.
Origin
The Finkenbach arises from the confluence of Hinterbach and Falk buttocks Erbach at Rothenberg Finkenbach. For these two source streams sometimes also other names in use; the Hinterbach as the Falk buttocks Erbach also be assigned the name " Finke Bach".
Course
From the confluence of its two headwaters of the Finke creek running consistently in a southerly direction to its mouth. On the southern edge of the village Finkenbach it feeds from the left of the Preuschengrund and a stream from the Lenzegrund. After that, his whole Auenbreite comprehensive nature reserve Finkenbachtal starts at Finke Bach, he pulls herein initially west on the mountain Kobel prank gone. A little further south it flows to the small Hörlenbach from the right side. The following Auenabschnitt between the Hörlenbachskopf (360 m above sea level. NN ) on the right and the old shocks left over is called the Great Meadow, where it amplifies the stone base of the left. The Finke creek flows through the Bruchwiesen on Engertalskopf (312 m above sea level. NN ) over, leaving thereby the nature reserve and then squeezes between Miihlberg purpose and reason through it. He then enters the district Eberbach- Brombach over and you soon come to the northern edge of belonging to Rothenberg Taldorfes top Hainbrunn which mostly something then runs above the eastern slope foot while holding here at the western side of the valley. In sub - Hainbrunn it flows to the two- base from the left. The creek now runs into the designated nature reserve grove Brunner valley near Hirschhorn one, here it feeds right from the left Hämmelsbach. Further downriver flows from the right Brombach, his most important tributary below the headwaters. Finally he reached the city Hirschhorn, where the Ulfenbach almost at a right angle from the right hits on him and brings him to the Laxbach. This opens after about 700 m own run into the Neckar.
Data and character
The Finke Bach is a 12.5 km (by Hinterbach approximately 22 km) long, fine material rich, siliceous low mountain. Its total catchment area is 73.787 km ², it is elongated in the north-south direction and is characterized by wooded slopes and embankments and had passed, green floodplains. In the soils of the river valley can seep only moderate to low water. The rock strata on the slopes consist mainly of sandstones and clay - and siltstones, some are on the cobbles. The valley fill quaternary often, relatively cohesive unconsolidated rocks.
Adjacent to the catchment area of the Finke Bach in the West is the sibling Ulfenbach river, in the north and north-east flow competing neighboring streams on the Mümling in the Main, the East on the Gammelsbach into the Neckar. In the southeast between the much smaller Igelsbach the Neckar and a few hillside streams running.
Fauna
In the Finke river brown trout, brook lamprey, bullhead and eel occur. Also, the yellow-bellied toad, the helmet - Azurjungfer and the Hellen - as well as the Dark burnet - Large Blues are to occur in Finkenbachtal. The former resident, rare freshwater pearl mussel is probably extinct at the latest in the eighties of the twentieth century. The still numerous transverse structures in the water obstruct fish and other aquatic species in the migration.