Lein (Kocher)

The flax in Abtsgmuend

The flax is a river in Baden- Württemberg, which rises at Kaiser Bach in Welzheimer forest and empties into the left here somewhat smaller cooker after good 57 km run in Abtsgmuend.

Geography

The flax flows from its origin at Kaiser Bach Eulenhof quite resistant over to the south and to the east by Welzheim. In Alfdorf - Haghof their course bends to the east and retains this direction at with slight variations to Heuchlingen, from where it reaches direction Abtsgmuend and the stove in the northeast. Its catchment area is mainly due to their left, because in their south -extending upper valley she has right in the near Wieslauf and its tributaries a strong competitor with significantly lower base level of erosion, in the east extending center run by Heuchlingen you dig the Rems- flows the water so much from that the watershed of the flax itself follows closely in the South, often only a few hundred meters from the river itself. Only in the north-east oriented underflow from Heuchlingen she has ever significant inflows right, here it is divided about equally between the bars of the corrugated Andes to Dewangen with the cooker. Your tributary system thus has roughly the shape of a comb: In the south and west is the flax itself, from the north you strive parallel to the major tributaries.

Hydro Graphically one can consider the flax as the Hauptquellast the digester system, as it leads a little more water at the mouth and there is more than twice as long as this.

Flow direction

The flow direction of the flax is striking; they removed it entirely from the River Neckar in the their water over the stove finally arrives, and their valley meets in Abtsgmuend almost opposite to that of the digester, which flows to the river Neckar there towards the west -northwest. Reason for this is that the course of the river Lein was created at a time when the area drained yet to the southeast to the ancient Danube and the Black Sea. The same applies for the neighboring river Lauter, beaver, " spruce Berger " Red and something almost opposite which opens below Abtsgmuend from the other side into the cooker blind red arose Today outflow over the stove, the Neckar and the Rhine to the North Sea through only when to descend from the Eocene of the upper Rhine Graben began and consequently the depth of erosion in the surrounding river system of the Rhine reinforced. Through numerous taps of Danube tributaries, the main European watershed gradually shifted in favor of the Rhine to the southeast.

History

In its upper reaches the flax followed in ancient times for a strong century a political border. Between its source and the beautiful timber-framed south Welzheims Namely, a few hundred meters Germania moved west - parallel to it between about 161 AD and 260 AD, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes then, the fortified border line of the Roman Empire, barbarian against the.

Flood protection

Today, flax and its northern tributaries feeding numerous smaller reservoirs, many of which were created for flood control and serve as lakes (eg the Aichstruter reservoir) and the recreation. Others are old Mühlseen because of flax as the larger tributaries ran earlier also many water mills.

Water Association "Kocher - Lein "

After recurring floods along the Lein one was in March 1956 eventually led to the founding of the Water Board Kocher- Lein by the neighboring communities in 1957. For flood protection, the new association built 1957-1982 eleven storage and retention basins, which he runs to this day. Five thereof, are in the Rems -Murr -Kreis, six in Ostalb. They are constantly been dammed to form small lakes. Most are accessible for recreation, some reported as lakes. The eleven lakes art can together hold back up to 14 million cubic meters, they lie between 390 m above sea level. NHN and 500 m. ü. NHN. and their total catchment area extends over about 250 km ². Between 1990 and 2000, they expended as part of a rehabilitation program 28.5 million euros, partly in facilities for remote data transmission and remote control, so that now, since 1997, all eleven basins can be controlled and monitored centrally.

Inflows

  • Sparrows Bach ( right), 1.6 km
  • Rötelbach (right), 1.1 km
  • Pfaff vein (right), 0.5 km
  • Göckelesbad (right), 0.5 km
  • Ropbach (right), 1.4 km
  • Haschbach (left), 1.3 km
  • Eisenbach (left), 5.0 km
  • Mettelbach (left), 1.8 km
  • Rogue blade ( right), 1.1 km
  • Gell Bach ( left), 2.7 km
  • Red ( left), 11.1 km
  • Upper Gell Bach ( left), 3.8 km
  • Spitzerbach (right), 1.8 km
  • Blacksmith Bach ( left), 1.1 km
  • Krummbach (left), 2.7 km
  • Reichenbach (left), 7.0 km
  • Aitelbach (right), 1.9 km
  • Spraitbach (left), 3.4 km
  • Rooms Bach ( left), 1.3 km
  • Mountain stream (left), 0.9 km
  • Durlanger Bach ( left), 1.2 km
  • Werdichquelle (right), 0.5 km
  • Red, also Gschwender red ( left), 17.8 km
  • Sulzbach (left), 3.3 km
  • Hellenbach (right), 0.5 km
  • ( Leinzeller ) Laubach (left), 2.6 km
  • Götz Bach ( left), 8.2 km
  • Gögginger Bach ( left), 1.0 km
  • Brainkofener Bach ( right), 1.2 km
  • Ziegelbach (right), 0.7 km
  • Krebsbach (left), 1.2 km
  • Loh (right), 1.9 km
  • Detention Bach ( left), 0.7 km
  • Spring creek (left), 5.6 km
  • Beautifully Hardter Bach ( right) 0.7 km
  • Hack Bank Bach ( right), 2.0 km
  • Auchtbach (left), 0.5 km
  • Aspesbach (right), 0.6 km
  • Tiefenbach ( right), 2.4 km
  • Cooper Brook (right), 2.7 km
  • Siechenbach, in the upper reaches Mühlbach (left), 2.7 km
  • Sheep Forest Brook (right), 0.5 km
  • Castle Meadow Brook (left), 1.0 km
  • ( " Reichenbach " ) Laubach (right), 5.4 km
  • Flowers forest stream (left), 0.9 km
  • Kauwiesenbach (right) 0.4 km
  • Sparrows Bach ( left), 4.7 km
  • Stapfelbach (right), 3.8 km
  • Kotholzbach (left), 1.6 km
  • Pond Brook (left), 1.0 km
  • ( Dewanger ) Haldenbach (right), 3.7 km
  • Attleswasenbach (right), 1.4 km
  • Laubbach (right), 4.8 km
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