Jossa (Sinn)

The Jossa on the Barack courts

The Jossa is a 32 km long river in the Spessart, in Hesse Main- Kinzig-Kreis. It rises in the district Jossgrunder Lettgenbrunn and ends at the village of the municipality Jossa Sinntal in the mind.

Geography

Jossa source

The Jossa source is surrounded by Lettgenbrunn. It is a small source of running water in which the Villbach enters, which is often regarded as the upper reaches and about two kilometers to the northwest arises in Villbach. However, this leads in summer often no water, so that the real watercourse then starts at the Jossa source. The source was used until the year 1951 to supply drinking water from Lettgenbrunn. On 16 September 2007, the redesign of Jossa source has been completed and set a natural sandstone with a reference to the source.

Course

The young Jossa flows from Lettgenbrunn first to the Southeast through a narrow valley. But you rotate after a few miles its flow direction to the north, where the forest edges partially extend to the stream bed. There seeps part of Jossa water and comes back to days before Pfaffenhausen. Northbound it then traverses a moderate small loop run a wide valley over which the right and left are forests. The Jossa then flows through Oberndorf, Burgjoß and Mernes.

Then she slowly returns to the southeast. Almost at the northernmost point of its arc is Marjoß, a district of Steinau, behind their biggest inflow, the Rohrbach, joins from the left. The Talflur the underflow is now very close, at the end they reached Jossa, where it passes under the railway viaduct route Flieden - Gemünden and Jossa joins sense meadows of Altengronau in the sense of the nature reserve.

Inflows

  • Villbach (right, often regarded as the headwaters )
  • Hungerbach (right, temporarily dry)
  • Kalbach (right)
  • Breitenbach (left)
  • Obergrund ( Orb - basic ) (left)
  • Spirgelbach (left, temporarily dry)
  • Aura reason (right, temporarily dry)
  • Mohrbach (right)
  • Thistle Bach ( left)
  • Rohrbach (left)
  • Steinbach (right)

Places on the Jossa

  • Villbach
  • Lettgenbrunn
  • Pfaffhausen ( Spessart )
  • Oberndorf
  • Burgjoß
  • Mernes
  • Marjoß
  • Jossa

Mills

In the southern part of the Upper Mill was Marjoß ( decommissioned in 1968 ), on the northeastern edge of the lower mill (closed 1958). Both water mills were powered by a radical derived from the Jossa operational channel.

Rieselwiesen in Jossatal

At the Jossa until the 20th century meadows were (also called back - meadows ) as Rieselwiesen created. On Rieselwiesen soil had been piled in rows of about 30-50 cm in height and 4-6 m wide. On the head of the rows ( " back " ) was allowed to the pent-up and run along through inlet channels derived water of Jossa, then the edges of the " back " in the end trenches a " trickle " and passed back into the Jossa. This intensive irrigation caused an additional hay a year. Since the undulating cultivated meadows are not to work with machines that Rieselwiesen disappeared late 20th century from the Jossatal.

Relics of dams and channels are received between Jossa and Marjoß in a now designated as a nature reserve section between a boardwalk and a bridge ( NSG Speckesteg - Müsbrücke ) and explained by a statement panel on the bike and hiking trail. After the last Rieselwiese of Marjoß of a family Schultheis was created in 1919.

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