Mühlbach (Schussen)

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The Mühlbach, sometimes also called Mühlbächle, is a stream of 4.7 km in length within the boundaries of the district Ettenkirch of Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance in southern Baden- Württemberg, which flows on the border with the city of Ravensburg and the community Meckenbeuren from the right in the Schussen.

Geography

Source and course

The Mühlbach has two headwaters, the shorter with significantly less catchment area is considered the official.

Left branch

The left upper course starts at the feet of a grass path on a slope, 300 m east of Elle hamlet close to a forest, then runs to this, at the western edge to the south and bends from there to the east. Through the hallway, he then reached the north -western tip of the Appen hamlet pond, where he meets the other effluent from this headwaters. Until the association it has a length of about 0.8 km.

Right branch

The right upper reaches arises as a trench between land north of a nameless Ettenkirchener group of houses on the eastern slopes of the mountain Hummel, close to the border of the district mountian valley village of the town of Ravensburg. It first flows in an easterly direction, takes on less than 100 meters from the right another moat of 300 meters in length, about 200 meters from the north-west one himself there for about the same length from the left and returns after about 300 meters in front of the rose garden after south. Meanwhile, in a small valley parallel to the K 7729 continuously, reaching 800 meters Elle hamlet, crosses under there in southwestern offset the road and spins there after passing a current from its trough flanks to the north and south slope line in a flatter lowlands, in order then to South Course to go. Only about 100 meters north of its renewed Südknicks begins the left branch. Prior to the slope line he draws parallel to the K 7729 south to about 2000 meters in total he goes into a wide curves to the north, the south circulates bed hamlet, and continues to flow downward in Won Big Pond to 454.5 m then in about 2, 2 acres of a Appen hamlet pond. After re- exit it flows after a few steps, together with his brother left. Until the association it has a length of about 3.0 km.

Underflow

After combining the branches of the Mühlbach accompanied now a wood gallery and it flows in the direction of his shorter left branch on the southern edge of Appen hamlet to the east and then bends to the northeast. About 700 meters after the union it reaches the western edge of a large forest area, occurs in constant running in it and here separates the white Auerswald on his right by the nobility Reuter forest on his left. Inside, it reaches the same direction from the backyard of the first of three left tributaries with a length of about a kilometer then he lies down in wild small loops. But from the inlet of the second brook from the nobility Reuter forest he moves in a straight line on. At the mouth of the third of these, and the mill stream already running even in a significantly eingeböschten Taltrog, from here follows him the city boundary between Friedrichshafen and Ravensburg. He is now headed quickly to the southeast, the hall takes its left bank, and he finally opens at the tip of a wedge north of the municipal territory of Meckenbeuren after 6.3 km run from right here in the south ongoing Schussen.

Catchment area

The Mühlbach has a catchment area of 4.7 km ². About 16 ha north of the upper left branch and about 39 ha also in the north among the nobility Reuter forest belong to the district of which the valley village of Ravenburg, the. Greatly vast remainder of the district Ettenkirch from Friedrichshafen About a third of it is forest.

In addition to the places and residential Appen hamlet, hamlet bed, Elle Weiler, backyard, Rosengarten already mentioned, are in the catchment area still chunk hamlet and the vast majority of Lempfriedsweiler, a building of Lehhorn and two unnamed residential places. The population density is low.