Ilgenbach

The Ilgen Bach

The Ilgen Bach is a not quite five-kilometer river in the northern Black Forest, which opens into the upper Murg at Teilort Mitteltal the town of Baiersbronn in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden -Wuerttemberg from the right.

Course

The highest source of Ilgen Bach is at the upper northern slope of Kniebis to about 920 m above sea level. NN below a boggy plateau, between the crest of the Sperber Hart ( 936.1 m above sea level. NN ) in the northwest and running on the Kniebisrücken Black Forest Road in the southwest. On the scarce first kilometer of its legally valid northeastern iteration, it deepened to a rapidly and then plunges over a waterfall even steeper in its Talendbucht between Sperber Hart in the West and the Kniebis -northeast spur Rappenberg ( 883.7 m above sea level. NN ) in the East down, in which he at about 720 m above sea level. NN from some deeper sources equal to a further influx receives on the slopes.

The following run in a long V-shaped valley wooded with a number of other feeds from the lower slope is flatter. After about 3.5 km, it relies on about 620 m above sea level. NN the Talwald and pulls, accompanied by a gallery, in addition to the Ilgen Bachstraße under now flatter slopes with remnants of meadow irrigation, between the center Taler settlement sites Looch and Ilgen Bach through. Finally it flows over a little below the road bridge over the river, the bath of Baiersbronn- heap, to about 580 m above sea level. NN from the right in the upper Murg.