Reißenbach

The tear stream just after its origin ( downstream )

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The tearing Bach is a 2.3 km long stream on the escarpment, which flows into Lichtenstein in the district of Reutlingen in Baden -Wuerttemberg from the left in the Neckar- inflow Echaz.

Tear stream source

The tear stream source is located southwest of Lichtenstein at the end of the valley at the foot of the mist cave in the beginning of the slope forest. It is a karst spring with two exit points under an exposed tree root. Your bed is strongly dependent on the rainfall, the average flow 43 l / s from a maximum of 100 l / s The water from the shallow karst first fed a reservoir, where visitors can kneippen. In the valley above the source are numerous Hungerbrunnen.

Course

The tearing creek runs northeast and takes about half-way from the left the 1.6 km long stream from the Kienloch on; previously accompanied him occupies one of a dirt road. In low-rainfall periods of tearing Bach seeps in the valley filling, before he reached the outskirts of Lichtenstein, which he piped pervades otherwise. In the village it opens at the end of the street named after him from the left and west to the Echaz.

Catchment area

The above-ground catchment area of ​​5.0 km ², it almost borders in rotation, to which the receiving Echaz itself, or - in the north- west - to the inflow of their eggs Bach. Only in the West compete beyond a very short portion of the watershed of the stream Ramstel which drains in a foreign river system on the Wiesaz to the Neckar.