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The truck Bach, called the lower reaches Steinbach, is an approximately 19 km long left, northeasterly inflow of Elbbaches in the Westerwald.

Course

The truck creek rises at an altitude of about 569 m above sea level. NN in a wooded area east of Rennerod, next to the nature reserve Wacholderheide. It first flows in a northwesterly direction, then draws a line to the southwest and pulls at the foot along the Lichtenberg. Shortly thereafter, he crosses the K 47 and turns south. After another 500 meters, it changes its flow direction to the southwest. His road now leads through fields and meadows, until it reaches the northeast edge of Oberrod after about one kilometer. He runs through the village, a little later fed him just before Elsoff on his left side of the center stream. The truck creek flows through Elsoff back towards the west, are changes in the Dörnerstraße its course to the southwest and then passes the intergrown with Elsoff means Mayrhofen. He now leaves the village and is amplified near the Neumühlestrasse on his right side of the coming of Hüblingen Krummbach. There are also a number of smaller ponds. The creek leads now in the court of clutter (since 1415) over and then flows on the eastern foot of the Kringenbergs along. On its banks lined by trees, the creek meanders through meadows until it enters after about one kilometers Neunkirchen. He leaves the place at the level of the home and road replaced approximately 1.3 km far from the Birkenmühle of Rhineland- Palatinate to Hesse. He now flows through grassland in a small valley that lies between the Hohlenstein and the Heiderberg, and happens after forest Brunn -Hausen. In Stockhausen are still three old mills: the dam - mill ( since 1491 ), the Birch mill and the mill fig (both since 1699). He continues on his way to the south continued, flows through the western edge of Castellar along and then himself after crossing under the Dorchheimer road he turns to the southwest through the town, crosses a meadow and reaches south of the Mühlhölzchen (315 m above sea level. NN ), now westward flowing, the Gadelheimer mills ( Neumühlestrasse, Upper, Middle and Lower Gadelheimer mill). In Dorchheim through which it flows at the narrowest point of the place, he turns to the southwest, the B 54 crosses and leads eventually to the northwest of Elbe Valley Heuchelheim and at an altitude of about 401 m above sea level. NN as Steinbach in the Elbbach.

Data and character

The truck is a creek waters III. Order. He is a coarse substrate rich, siliceous low mountain, its lower course has a strong bottom slope and leads coarse gravel. Its catchment area covers an area of 44.4 km ².

At its headwaters, in the valley southeast of Rennerod, the Dark Burnet 's Blue and Bright burnet - Large Blues occur.

Inflows

• Mittelbach (left), 1.8 km
• Krummbach (right), 5.7 km