Lauter (Glan)
River course
Artificial pond source and course of the Lauter Neumühlpark the Garden Show Kaiserslautern
Lauter in Wolfenstein
The Lauter, called in distinction to the southern Palatinate Wieslauter as forest Lauter, is a 39.4 km long, orographic right tributary of Glan in Rhineland -Palatinate, Germany. The Lauter rises in the Palatinate Forest, flows through the Kaiserslautern Valley and then aimed at the Glan by the North Palatine Uplands to.
- 2.1 infrastructure
Geography
The Lauter rises about 3 km southeast of Kaiserslautern far from the state road 504 at an altitude of 249 m above sea level. NN. Your water entfließt the Lauter Spring. From there it flows along the main road to the north and reached the city of Kaiserslautern, in which it channeled and runs mostly underground. In the garden show an artificial source pond was created by crossing the Neumühlpark of the " New Volume " from the. The cased Lauter and the "New Volume " unite on the northern outskirts at a sewage treatment plant. From there, the volume flows mainly in northwestern direction over Otterbach, Katzweiler, Hirschhorn / Pfalz, Untersulzbach, Olsbrücken, Kreimbach - Kaulbach, Wolfstein, Upper Weiler- Tiefenbach, Heinz Stockhausen and Lohnweiler into Lauterecken to 159 m above sea level. NN on the right side to open into the Glan.
On its 39.4 km long road the volume overcomes a height difference of 90 m, corresponding to an average bed slope of 2.3 ‰. Here, the river drains a catchment area of 275.649 km ² over Glan, Nahe and the Rhine to the North Sea.
Tributaries
Longest tributary of the Lauter is the 12.3 km long Eselsbach. The 10.3 km long moss Lauter, however, with 50.517 km ² catchment area of the larger ones. The following are the tributaries of the Lauter are called in order from source to mouth, which are conducted by the Water Management Administration of Rhineland -Palatinate. Indicated are the orographic position of the mouth, the length, the size of the catchment area, the height of the mouth and the water code.
Environment
The Lauter counts in the upper reaches of the fine material rich, siliceous means mountain streams ( Type 5.1 ). From the mouth of the woman brook meadow the volume is one of the fine to coarse substrate rich, siliceous highland rivers (type 9). The water structure is largely changed dramatically to complete. Below Oberweiler -Tiefenbach the structural quality is specified with significantly changed to strong. The water quality will be charged on the sections Kaiserslautern Katzweiler and Olsbrücken to Wolfenstein with critical, moreover, with moderately polluted specified (as of 2005).
Following the area of the wastewater and thus between Kaiserslautern and Otterbach is a renatured section.
Infrastructure
The Lauter north of Kaiserslautern is a dominantly agricultural, wide meadow valley. It is served by the B 270 and the single track Lauter Valley Railway Kaiserslautern Lauter corners. Once a year ( early August ) the Lauter valley between the northern outskirts of Kaiserslautern and Lauter corners of 9:00 is - 18:00 clock to motorized traffic blocked ( Car Free Lauter ) and is to this day the cyclists, skaters, pedestrians, etc. are available.