Laufach (river)
The Laufach to the Weyberhöfen just before it empties into the Aschaff
Mouth of the Laufach (left) in the Aschaff (right)
The Laufach is a right and the largest tributary of the Aschaff in the Aschaffenburg district in the Spessart in Lower Franconia. It arises in Hain im Spessart by the confluence of the left and right Seebach Schwarzenbach.
Name
The name Laufach is composed of the Old High German words in the sense contemplated by rapids and aha for water. The waters were the same community its name.
Geography
Headwaters
Seebach
The Seebach rises in the forest grove at the foot of the Spessart Mies mountain ( 470 m), northwest of Roth book from multiple sources. It flows underneath the road 26 to the northwest, flows through several ponds and runs past the Old Forstmühle to Hain im Spessart. The Seebach has extended source stream with about 3.5 km.
Schwarzenbach
The 3 km long Schwarzenbach at the foothills of the Black head ( 460 m) south-east of Grove. He runs to the Schwarzkopf tunnel. There he flow to other streams. The Schwarzenbach passes under the railway line, and joins in the grove with Seebach for Laufach.
Course
From the confluence of the Laufach flows west through the community Laufach and reached here after the location grove, the village of the same name, where it divides into two branches, which unite in the center at the roundabout near the St. Thomas More Church. Very briefly then goes to each one stream of left and right. Further west, crossing the creek the living space hammer. Then it divides the district Frohnhofen in two arms unite beyond the municipal boundary to the Sailauf Weyberhöfe lock again. This also opens the same right of its biggest tributary, the Sailaufbach, and it changes to the area of the market Hoesbach where the Laufach few hundred yards further east of the village and right ends next to the A 3 to Aschaff, which then in Laufach - direction moves on to the west.
Since the Laufach is richer in water than the Aschaff at its mouth, which is mistakenly referred to in some maps as Aschaff.
Inflows
- Beibuschbach, right in the village Laufach to below 180 m above sea level. NN
- Erlenbach, from left in the village Laufach no 50 m
- Erbigsbach, left the dwelling-place of hammer Laufach to below 165 m above sea level. NN
- Hembach, from left in Laufach - Frohnhofen
- Sailaufbach, right at Sailauf - Weiberhof to about 148 m above sea level. NN
Catchment area
The catchment area of Laufach bordered to the northwest and north by the Kahlenberg, from northeast to southeast competes beyond a high ridge, the Lohr, then there briefly Hafenlohr. In the south and west side of the dewatered in the West often slightly marked watershed receiving Aschaff itself
The highest point, which still lies precisely in the catchment area, is an unnamed summit in the north, 507 m above sea level. NN reached, about one kilometer north of the summit of the climb ka ( 502 m above sea level. NN ). In the east the watershed to Lohr runs over the 460.4 m above sea level. NN heights Schwarzkopf. The highest point on the southern edge of the catchment area is set back on the Miesberg to 484 m above sea level. NN.
Traffic
The B 26 occurs with the left source Bach Seebach valley and follows the Laufach, mostly on the right side, to the mouth. Mostly on the other side constantly, moving from there, the Main-Spessart -Bahn into the valley up and leaves it above the grove by almost a kilometer of Schwarzkopf tunnel over to the valley system of Lohr.