Gauchsbach

The Gauch stream by the ball-peen hammer lock

The Gauch Bach is a small year-round running water in the Lorenz Imperial forest south-east of Nuremberg. It overlooks the village of wetland and was also in an old coat of arms of wetland indicated: as a blue wavy line between green and yellow ( for forest and field).

Name

Its name comes from Gauch, the alt-/mittelhochdeutschen name of the cuckoo. This forest bird was probably typical of this area and can be heard even sometimes there.

Location

The Gauch creek flows in an east-west direction and over a total distance of 15-20 kilometers of the collectors of all forest and meadow ditches within a range of hills to the north of High Bühl / Devil's Oven ( MUNA - premises), Moist Height, Hutberg, booklet mountain, Cross Stone, ie approximately along the A6 motorway and the South over pulpit beat ( at Weinhof ), on the mountains (Green mountain / Altenthann ), Three Brothers mountain ( Rummelsberg ) Kirchbühl ( Black Bruck ) drags on and on sandstone rocks of Schwarzach Tales ( at Gsteinach ) towards expires.

The difference in elevation from the headwaters pulpit blow to the mouth of the Schwarzach is approximately 130 meters.

Sources and History

A source is apparently not available (anymore), the construction of the motorway A 3 has probably pulled the trigger an underwater vein, one finds the sign 1000 m to exit Thann castle on an embankment about 50 meters off the road in the spring a Sickerstelle, which have been a source could. So you can now see the swamp forest area in the pulpit shock (49 ° 23 '7 "N, 11 ° 19' 23" O49.38527777777811.323055555556, 458 m above sea level. NN ) near the clubhouse Weinhof as originating well. After other trenches have come to one soon clearly a deeply indented trench in boggy mixed forest with the little rivulet, which is crossed by Penzenhofen east from state road wet Altdorf. It flows around and fed there for two from the street visible pond, flows around this south and crosses the meadows before it plunges into the dense forest Rabenholz but after repeated crossing under the road. There is, the brook ebony stream and is temporarily introduced into a fish pond.

From the north-east the relatively water-rich roasting from Winkelhaid is added, which is fed from the wetland area blow meadows between directional Hausener road and state road below the pulpit shock. The origins in the forest it is difficult to account for, at best well after snow melt or rain periods. One of the sources is located near the western woodland walk (49 ° 22 ' 57 "N, 11 ° 18' 56 " O49.382511.315555555556, 459 m above sea level. NN ), where the water first flows about 150 meters to the west, then south to the edge of the forest follows to the blunt tip and at the Wiesenstraße Penzenhofen is visible as a shallow marsh ditch. Along the property lines at the eastern edge of the ditch then pulls back north and becomes stronger by leachate from the field slope. A couple of other origins lie in the arch of the northern woodland walk (49 ° 23 ' 12 " N, 11 ° 19' 3" O49.38666666666711.3175, 458 m above sea level. NN ) near the plane Bach origin. The water also flows from there west to the edge of the forest, where it seeps and only below the meadow in the trench south of the traffic circle directional Hausener road comes to light again. The roasting begins, (49 ° 23 ' 13 " N, 11 ° 18 ' 32 " O49.38694444444411.308888888889, 421 m above sea level. NN ), where both trenches and a small spring meet. It flows directly west to the town center, is at the Brunngasse the pond and occurs after the brook street behind the water plant in the forest. Takes you there as well as the level brook no water constantly. Only behind on the roasting at home must bubbling the clear brook constantly fed a fish pond in the woods and winds its way between the two forest roads to the sewage treatment plant. Southwest along the forest edge, it turns to click the layer stream.

After the confluence of the two " sisters " (49 ° 22 ' 55 "N, 11 ° 16' 44" O49.38194444444411.278888888889, 392.2 m above sea level. NN ) at Weiherhaus the creek bears the name Gauch Bach. After flowing through the pond he initially flows south past Hahnhof and takes in the moss creek also flowing from the northeast Hennertsbühlgraben on. When Gauch mill he crosses the road in a southerly direction and disappears in the partially dense lowland forest. On the eastern outskirts of wetland it occurs after the passage of a further pond out by the lido from the forest, crosses the road again, meanders through renatured meadows to the railway line between Nuremberg and Regensburg and at Zeidlerschloss past when he receives the black water from the book mountain.

In the village fountain, he is taken since 1928 in a wide concrete trough which is überdeckelt since about 1975 by the main road to the Reichswaldhalle and Pfinzingschloss. To prevent flooding, there is a large stormwater retention basin was constructed, on the Wednesdays held a farmers' market. Next by meadows, temporarily designated as conservation area, the renewed dedication remained under consideration of uses of riparian, he takes the old cemetery on the light coming from Three Brothers Mountain Lechle. Originally meandered the river further north past still partially existing willow trees. By 1928, he was straightened with several barrages. As compensation for the ICE - area requirement of the Gauch Bachgrund was renatured. West of the A9 motorway and the ICE high-speed line Nuremberg -Ingolstadt- Munich he turns in front of the pitcher ponds back to the forest and takes the water from the treatment plant to Moist. Previously accrued to after Jägersee over a ditch some water from MUNA forest area for several years opens this digging in the Jägersee. A broad lowland forest belt both sides of the A73 forms the ramp for a meter high waterfall near the cemetery Röthenbach in St. Wolfgang, where the creek crosses under a bridge, the Gauch Bach Brückkanal the Ludwig-Danube- Main Canal, the lock ball-peen hammer ( or. Gugelhammer ) flows around and behind the factory premises Heinrich Müller-Straße in Röthenbach / St. Wolfgang (49 ° 21 ' 41 "N, 11 ° 10' 25 " O49.36138888888911.173611111111, 337 m above sea level. NN ) in the coming from the south Schwarzach flows.

Fauna

In its lower part, which is a popular refuge for wild ducks and herons are found from time to time even fish such as trout.

Local Notes

• MUNA: Abbreviation of air munitions institutions in the Third Reich, now unguarded military zone
• Altenthann: eastern district of Bruck Black
• Weinhof: suburb of Altdorf
• Hahnhof: district of wetland
• Moos Bach: the district of wetland
• Weiherhaus 's most eastern district of wetland
• Zeidlerschloss: one of three former patrician mansions in damp
• Pfinzingschloss: one of three former patrician mansions in damp
• Sophie source: "the greatest aggregate, baroque source north of the Alps " ( Castle Grünberg # Sophie source), the water flows in a southerly direction to Schwarzach at Thann castle
• Eben Bach: southern part of the origin Gauch Bach
• Roasting: northern part of the origin Gauch Bach
• Pulpit shock: the headwaters of the two original parts east in the forest Winkelhaid - not identical to the name of a street pulpit to beat in Penzenhofen
• Hennertsbühlgraben: Waldgraben from a northeasterly direction, empties in Gauch mill / moss creek in the Gauch Bach
• Black Water: Waldgraben from a northeasterly direction, opens behind the Zeidlerschloss wet in the creek Gauch
• Lechle: Waldgraben from the south, opens to the tunneling at the valley road in wet in the creek Gauch
• Pitcher Pond: former fish ponds, now rehabilitated as a compensatory measure for the near ICE line
• Jägersee: two former sand mining wells, now used as Lakes
• Lock ball-peen hammer or Gugelhammer: patrician mansion in Röthenbach at Sankt Wolfgang