Ostrach (stream)

Course of Ostrach

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The Ostrach is a 33.1 km long right tributary of the Danube in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ).

Geography

The Ostrach arises immediately north of the main European watershed near Fleischwangen in the district of Ravensburg, the Pfrunger Ried drained to the north - the rotách it drained to the south. Then the Ostrach squeezed into the village of Ostrach between two closely related morainic through, flows through the Weithart that Göge and the wide- Ried and flows near the village of Hundersingen the community Herbertingen in the district of Sigmaringen in the Danube.

The catchment area of ​​Ostrach covers approximately 205 square kilometers.

Places on the Ostrach

The Ostrach crosses or touches on their way to places Fleischwangen where it originates, Guggenhausen, Riedhausen, Ostrach and its sub- sites Laubbach, Jettkofen, cheeks, Einhart and Habsthal, the Mengener district Rosna that Hohentengener part places Bremen and Beizkofen to finally at Hundersingen to flow into the Danube.

Inflows

Inflows of Ostrach are the Wilhelmsdorfer channel, the meat Wanger Oh, Hornbach, Tiefenbach Seebach, the Krebsbach and Färbebach.

Environment

Fauna

In Pfrunger - Burgweiler Ried is since 2005 a beaver population - since October 2008, proven. At the top of the Ostrach that the Vorflutfunktion used here, a few meters below the mouth of the horn creek, erected one or more Beaver a dam across the creek. The dam held back thousands of cubic meters of water, after which the water is already burst their banks not only to the upper edge of the slope, but the great annoyance of farms in Riedhausen and Laubbach. Also, the Hornbach overflowed its banks. In late November 2008, the dams were removed by 40 centimeters, was not to be entirely eliminated the building. To keep the Beavers in the future of the Ostrach a fence wire with current conduction above the water level has been created.

A large-scale conservation project has the goal of becoming waterlogged, the core areas around the original state of the mire restore. Among other logs are transported to the barriers that prevent the flow of water through the drainage ditches once created. Grave weirs sometimes have already led to visible results. The approximately seven million euro project to be completed in 2012.