Herrgottsbach

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The Lord God Bach is a from its highest source of almost 14 km long creek on the northeast edge of Baden-Württemberg in the northern Hohenlohe plain and especially the eastern Tauberlandpark, which flows into Creglingen in the Main- Tauber-Kreis from the left and south into the Tauber.

Geography

Headwaters

Rimbach

The Rimbach is the left source stream of the Lord God creek. It occurs south of the members of the community Schrozberg village play stream on the northern edge of the high- wood to about 471 m above sea level. NN. It runs in a north-easterly direction, first of all. After leaving the forest, he returns to the north and feeds the ice pond and another small lake with together about 0.4 hectares. In the further north running parallel to a dirt road it reaches play stream and flows through it partly verdolt in a westerly direction. After the last houses he moved further than dig away to the municipal and county border, where it flows northward to the territory of the city Creglingen. Here in the rather hollow to be named Rear blade it flows between low wooded rolling hills on both sides. To his left is in the forest districts birch and thorn impact the nature reserve Upper Rimbacher sinkholes; it Dolinenreihen him run a typical landscape, here quite eye-catching Dolinenfeldes parallel. The Einbruchsdolinen begin slightly above the edge of the Upper Muschelkalk in the Lower Keuper. He then reached the Creglinger Oberrimbach village, behind which his real blade, ie Kerbtalabschnitt the underflow begins. After a short distance on the right past the gallows he reached Litwick, a hamlet mostly on the spur of a dialed already in late middle age castle from the other side be the only significant, 3.1 km long tributary Klingenbachstrasse tapers him from the left. Little behind it flows 7.3 km away with the right Schmerbach together for Lord Bach. Its catchment area covers 14.7 km ², including the Klingenbachstrasse contributes 3.7 km ².

Schmerbach

The Schmerbach is the right source stream of the Lord God creek. It occurs at about 460 m above sea level. NN northeast of the town Schrozberger Böhm hamlet next to a road, which he then used as ditch north of the county boundary follows Blumweiler to Creglinger place. Shortly before the development boundary of the hamlet he undergoes an approximately 1.2 -acre pond. From the small settlement he flows with fluctuations in a northwesterly direction. A little before reaching the village Creglinger Schmerbach, a Dolinenfeld running him in Waldenburg barn on the left edge hill north to. Behind the village begins at the southwestern foot of the summer mountain ( 437.7 m above sea level. NN ) his short blade section, which he runs together with the left Rimbach to Lord Bach. He has no significant inflows is 6.2 km long and its catchment area covers 9.4 km ².

Course

The Lord God creek flows about 0.8 km north-east of Litwick to 361.1 m above sea level. NN from its two headwaters together and then remains at its fairly consistent north-northwest running in the city district of Creglingen. From the beginning, accompanying him along the country road in 1005, which enters via the V-shaped valley of the Schmerbachs in its valley. Under the left slope dumps are three smaller ponds in the left floodplain. Soon after, running from right from the wooded Heiser blade quite far down in their emergent, only about 0.7 km long stream to. However, the blade of the plateau runs an unstable water-bearing ditch in valley clearly recognizable, arising a little above the approximately 0.8 -acre Karrodsees, this lake passes westward and runs until the blades start; with this route then reaches the watercourse about 4 km in length.

West of the mouth downward spur Kräuselberg the Lord God creek is dammed just after the above feed by a causeway to about 2.2 hectare Münstersee, which almost completely fills only about 100 meters wide valley floor. About half a kilometer to the outlet it reaches above a campsite in the floodplain on the southern outskirts of Münster another reservoir of this time about 1.1 ha The village he passes through open is the only major settlement in the valley in front of the town itself and is located at the inlet of the 3.8 km long Berbachs which about three kilometers south-southwest arises in a straight line to its mouth in the village center at the eastern district boundary of low- Stetten on the left plateau and little from the Lichteler Landturm as road accompanying ditch, where the upper reaches but often dry falls. On the northern edge of the village in turn flows from the left just 0.4 km long water from the brief Eppichsklinge to.

This is the last tributary of the creek, which bottomed out not expanding significantly in steeply incised Muschelkalktal also on the remaining approximately three miles of its course. About a kilometer before the town limits of Creglingen it passes the famous by its high altar Herrgottskirche at the bottom right slope, right after the coal mill. A little behind off right from an old Mühlkanal running back after 0.6 km near- parallel operation on the development boundary. Now the Lord God creek is still flowing at the narrowed by the situation in the only slightly widening Taltrichter core city Creglingens on the left foot of the slope about 300 meters long pass close and finally joins up with the Riemenschneider bridge to below 270 m above sea level. NN from the left and south into the Tauber.

Catchment area

The Lord Bach has a catchment area of 42.9 km ², including the left upper reaches Rimbach 14.7 km ² and the right Schmerbach contributes 9.4 km ². It extends from its greatest height in the high wood to about 482 m above sea level. NN near and slightly above the Rimbach- source about 11 kilometers north-northwest to its confluence with Creglingen to slightly below 270 m above sea level. NN. To cross it reaches a maximum width of about 6.7 km.

Starting at the northern tip of the mouth, the catchment area border will initially southeast to slightly east of the Karrodsees, bends there from south to near Böhm hamlet and the Schmerbach origin; Pull down this stretch beyond smaller waters to the upper Tauber. Here the boundary bends then southwest to west, which she pulls up to the amount mentioned in the high wood, the southernmost point of the catchment area; drained beyond the slightly larger ( obere! ) Vorbach to Tauber, quite recently in the high wood is the catchment area of the inflow even higher Schandtauber to.

Now the watershed moves to the northwest to the large forest Häften between wild animal Bach and the Lichteler Landturm against catchment area of ​​Reutalbachs, which flows into the ( unteren! ) Tauber inflow Vorbach. On the final piece north of ongoing watershed pull left approximately parallel to Lord Bach outside of this tapered Streichentalbach and directly downward Tauber inflow Rindbach.

In the southwest are less than 5 km ² of the catchment area for the sub-district of Lower Stetten, in the south under 7 square kilometers of the city Schrozberg, the remaining less than 31 km ² are creglingisch.

Characteristics

The Lord God is a second order stream waters. Its water quality has been recognized for it on the section that begins shortly after the union of its source streams, as a lightly loaded in 2004 ( grade I-II) classified. It belongs to the trout region. During the Bach in his local remote sections still is very natural that lying in the settlement area parts, as well as the areas around the reservoirs are heavily engineered. Its course is hampered by transverse structures in the carrying out of him reservoirs.

Geology

Rimbach and Schmerbach begin their run in the Lower Keuper - edition on the limestone of the southern plateau, on the outskirts of Lösssediment, occupying the highest positions, especially on the southern edge of the basin in elongated islands, but some also in the west of the mouth of the Lord God creek on the plateau lying woodland Bockstall occurs sporadically. The short supply of Karrodsees arises in the Lower Keuper, Klingenbachstrasse and Berbach on the border of the latter to the Upper Muschelkalk, which Rimbach reach at play stream and Schmerbach at Blumweiler and in which they are also united. In the two reservoirs is the first time in the Middle Muschelkalk a flood plain, which occupies the greater part of the slopes in Untertal, and in which the Lord God creek also flows. Also in the area of ​​the lakes is a Auensediment on the bottom of the valley, which runs into a little wide strip to the mouth.

Biosphere

The Herrgottsbachtal is dominated long stretches of larger riparian strip with lots of ash, alder and pollard willows. Shortly before the mouth of the Lord God in the creek Tauber is a moist tall forbs hallway. In the lower reaches of the Lord stream occur in addition Bullhead the brook trout, eel and minnow on and in the upper reaches is next to the only bullhead, brown trout, as well as individual site- alien rainbow trout before. Even the noble crayfish and the stone crayfish can be observed in Lord Bach. Should eV According to the Fisheries Association Creglingen also still roach, rudd, crucian carp and various other small fish species in the stream occur.

Recreation

The Lord God Bach is popular because of its wealth of fish with anglers. The two reservoirs are used as fishing waters, the second northern reservoir is also as bathing water. The stately riparian galleries invite to hikes.