Red Main
The Red Main east of Bayreuth
The Red Main is the less water, but longer of the two sources of the River Main. It rises in the Franconian Switzerland and joins on the western outskirts of Kulmbach with the right and the northern source river White Main. At a length of 55 kilometers of the Red Main has a slope of 283 meters.
It flows through an area with clay soil and leads, especially after rains, lots of suspension load with it. Therefore, he assumes a reddish- brown color, which has led to his name suffix.
Geography
Source
The Red Main rises ten kilometers south of Bayreuth in Hörlasreuth ( Creußen ) in Lindenhardt forest at an altitude of 581 m above sea level. NN. The source area is Franconian Switzerland Veldenstein forest in the natural park. It belongs geologically to the Brown Jura. The Rotmainquelle 1907 was passed in stone; from it, the water flows out through a wooden tube.
River
The Red Main flows first in a south-easterly direction before it turns to the northeast and Creußen crosses. From there he moved to the north and behind the Hermitage makes a bend to the west. The town of Bayreuth, he crosses from east to west. In the city he's taken since the seventies in a concrete bed and partially überdeckelt.
Near the Bayreuth festival square south branches of Mühlkanal, the earlier drive several mills in the city area; the flow rate of the channel is approximately constant with a weir. It runs above ground to the height of Muenzgasse. Behind the former state central he is to the Graser school, with the main arm, plumbed shortly before the reunification. In the late 1990s, most of the channel was exposed in the Opernstraße and incorporated into the redesign of the La Spezia - square.
The northern arm usually results in very little water, but is used at high water levels as flood stream and has a very wide bed. It is built over two parking spaces partially.
After the urban area of the Red Main River flows strongly meandering through a broad valley in the northwest, passing through the villages Heinersreuth and Neudrossenfeld. On the western outskirts of Kulmbach, the Steinhausen castle, he unites with the White Main, which rises in the Fichtelgebirge at Bishop Green. The Red Main is 73 km long ( source to mouth ), the White Main 52 km. Directly below the confluence of the two sources, a bridge was built in 2009. Information boards at the bridge to inform about the further course of the river, the local hiking and biking trails and the surrounding countryside.
Inflows
Among the tributaries of the Red Main River include (sequence downstream ):
- Simmel Bach ( right)
- Eschingbach (right)
- Hühnerbach (right)
- Kupfergraben ( Kaingraben ) (left)
- Tiefenbach (left)
- Schwarzenbach ( right)
- Metzeler's Bach ( right)
- Gosenbach (left), (7.95 miles)
- Slept trench ( right)
- Black Pond Brook (left)
- Pond digging ( left)
- Brunnengraben (right)
- Schamelsgraben (right)
- Mühlwässerlein (left)
- Schnerfenbach (right)
- Thier garden pond trench ( left)
- Ölschnitz (right) ( with Laimbach 14.72 km )
- Gereutbach (right)
- Buhler Bach ( left)
- Mistletoe (mistletoe Bach) (left ), ( 11.42 km )
- Green tree trench ( right)
- Preuschwitzerin (left)
- Cottenbach (right)
- Tannenbach (left)
- Dühlbach (left ), ( 7.01 km )
- Seebach ( right)
- Köhlergraben (left)
- Rottelbach (left ), ( 6.93 km )
- Pechgraben (right)
- Erlgraben (right)
- Reuth Bach ( Rotbach ) (left ), ( 5.94 km )
- Schell Bach ( right)
- Fries Bach ( left), ( 8.85 km )
- Aubach (right)
- Erlenbach ( right)
- Hirtengraben (left)
- Manifold laugh trench ( right)
- Prosser Brook (right)
Before straightening northwest of the city of Bayreuth the Sendelbach led ( at Pauschenberglein ) and also used the Tappert ( on Mühltürlein ) directly into the Red Main.
River system Roter Main
See list of running water in the river system Roter Main
Geotop Bodenmühlwand
Near the bottom mill east of Bayreuth the Red Main has created on a cut bank of a river loop through the so-called erosion Bodenmühlwand, a steep slope of 20 meters. There strata from the Middle Keuper time are open. Before about 225 million years ago the area was a coastal area near, the country was firmly in much repeated change or embossed marin. Therefore, there are over each other mudstone and Estherienschichten. In the latter, geologists found fossils of ostracods ( Palaesteria Minuta ), after which the layers are named, remains of coelacanths and scales, teeth and spines of prehistoric sharks. The top and at the same time most powerful rock layer is one of the Red Sandstone. The Bodenmühlwand has been designated by the Bavarian State Office for Environment as Geotop 462A001 and awarded the official seal of approval "Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes ". See also List of geological sites in the district of Bayreuth.
Fauna
In the Red Main river trout, grayling, barbel, bullhead, lamprey, carp, tench, bream, roach, perch, pike, perch, eel and Aalrutten occur.
Trails
At the source of the Rotmainweg, the Fichtel Mountain Club has created eV begins. This main trail has as continuous marking a red M on a white background. It is up to the confluence 60 kilometers long with the White Main and proceeds as follows: Rotmainquelle - Creußen - Bucket Mill - Schlehenberg - Hermitage - Bayreuth - Martin Reuth - Altenplos - Green Trench - Jöslein - Long city - Affalterhof Katschenreuth - Schloss Steinhausen near Kulmbach.
Also at the source starts the Main Mies - way, which was created by the Upper Palatinate Forest Association. His mark is a red saltire on a white background. The 93 km long road with traffic: Rotmainquelle - Creußen - Seidwitz - Frankenberg - Neustadt am Kulm - Heritage Village - Falkenberg - Tirschenreuth - Griesbach.
Gallery
Red Main in Bayreuth - Looking former Black web
Mühlkanal before Oberfrankenhalle Bayreuth
Bayreuth: Mühlkanal at the Telemannstraße
Mühlkanal behind the Iwalewa house at the Muenzgasse in Bayreuth
" Tortured " river in Bayreuth
Rotmaindeckelung on Annecyplatz Bayreuth from east
Rotmaindeckelung on Annecyplatz Bayreuth from west
Mouth of the Mühlkanals ( capped ) in the Red Main
Flood on Mainflecklein in Bayreuth
Roter Main west of downtown Bayreuth