Holzbach (Schweinfe)

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" The " ( locally - dialectal feature ) Wood Creek is a western, orographic right tributary of the Schweinfe in Waldeck- Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany.

General

It rises with upper Holzhausen in the northeastern part of the Castle Forest, close to the Rhine -Weser watershed and flows into Gemünden in the Schweinfe, about 100 meters before the junction with the Wohra. It belongs therefore, on Schweinfe, Wohra, ohms and Lahn, to the river system of the Rhine. It is a body of water III. Order and has a catchment area of 18.0 km ². The Wood Creek is an excellent trout water.

Course

The source is located about 700 m west-northwest of Upper Holzhausen, a hamlet in the town of Haina (Kloster). The stream, which in its upper reaches has a fairly strong bottom slope, flows first 800 meters in an easterly direction, crosses under the north of Upper Holzhausen county road 99, and then turns sharply to the south. Now it flows from top Holzhausen, always along the K 99 1.5 km to the southeast and 1.1 km to the south to the farm low -Holzhausen. He bends, still accompanied by the K 99 on the left bank, to the southeast by, crosses under about 800 m between low -Holzhausen and Lehnhausen the L 3077, and reached after a further 1.2 km Lehnhausen. Then it flows past on a route of 1.3 km, at the Bern mill and the small hamlet of Wood Creek. He bends around to the east and flows 2.6 km, always on the north side of the K 99, at the hammer mill and the hammer mill to pass in the urban area of ​​Gemünden.

Mouth

During construction of the Wohratalbahn of Gemünden after Kirchhain the bed of the stream Wood was 1913/14, about 150 meters south of the railway station Gemündener been lowered, to be guided through under the railway embankment. In order for the Wood Creek also had the western arm of the Schweinfe, the mill stream, pass under, in which she had been gemündet. Since the lowering it now flows about 80 m further east in the deeper parallel arm of Schweinfe. The Mühlbach crossed since the wood over the brook then built Schweinfe Aqueduct.