Rombach (Liederbach)

Just before the confluence with the Reichenbach

The Rombach is good 4 km long right source stream of the songs creek.

Name

The part of the name ' Rome ' comes from Middle High German rone, ron tree stump log.

Course

The headwaters of the Rombaches located in the Taunus mountains on the slopes of Romberg in the Upper desolation, a coniferous forest area north of Königstein, near the confluence of the Taunus high street in the Limburger Straße (B 8).

Near the source of the Rombaches originate in the west of Silver Creek and its tributary the calf Hecker Bach, the Emsbach the north and the Reichenbach in the east.

After passing under the B 8 it flows through a deep valley south of the donkey tail passing through the Lower desolation. Here is to the left the nature reserve Schmitt Röder meadows. The tree population changes between conifers and old beech and oak stands. Friends of Nature House Königstein Rombach change direction and now flows in a southeasterly direction at a point south of him drinking water protection zone over. There, the Rombach shares. The southern part of the natural watercourse Bill Bach said, flows in the valley to the south. The northern part flows as may already applied by the Romans, Hangkanal first a series of small ponds. When Billtalhöhe he falls back into the valley to the (often dry ) Billtal waterfall, a 50 m high waterfall with sliding drop steps. The main event level has a height of 9 m. Shortly before the pumping station Billtal waterworks, the two streams unite again.

There is also the so-called Stoltze Plätzi, a former residence place of the poet Friedrich Stoltze is a memorial stone .. The path of Rombachs leads west past the about 540 m high and Romberg at the Ölmühlquelle ( Nepomuk source). From there the narrow Rombachtal widens, and at the bottom of the forest gives way to a meadow landscape. Southward through the Billtal fluent reached the Rombach, after passing under the oil mill road, the urban area of ​​Königstein. It flows east past the Bangert, and then to unite the north of the steel source with the Reichenbach songs to Bach.

Billtalwasserfall before 1900

Water Quality

The Rombach is characterized by its high water quality. At its upper reaches it has the water quality I / I -II and in the mouth area, the grade II also its water structure is hydromorphologically - structurally in good condition. In many areas it is still largely left to nature.

Geology

The lower Rombachtal is characterized by remnants of old river terraces. The substrate consists mostly of phyllite, on the ranker and ranker - brown soils have formed (eg when Romberg ). In the case of aeolian sediment conditions ( loess, Laacher Bimstuff ) to brown soils formed, as well as on the alternately stored clays, sands and gravels of the valley floor. In the Auebereichen of Rombaches Nassgleye also occur.

Fauna

The Rombachtal is a species-rich habitat. There are different there (some rare ) butterflies, grasshoppers, amphibians, reptiles, birds and bats before:

Insects

• Butterflies: Golden Night, Dark burnet - Large Blues, Heller burnet - Large Blues and Elm Hairstreak
• Locusts: Heide grasshopper

Amphibians

• Salamanders: Fire salamanders, newts, smooth newt and palmate newt
• Anurans: common toad and frog

Reptiles

• Fence lizard, viviparous lizard, slow worm and grass snake

• Songbirds: Whinchat, Redstart, skylark, corn bunting, dippers, Whitethroat, Red-backed Shrike and tree sparrow
• Woodpeckers: Grey-headed Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Black Woodpecker
• Owls: Owl and Tengmalm
• Birds of Prey: Red Kite and Hobby
• Other birds: Woodcock and Kingfisher

Mammals

• Bats: Bechstein's bat, greater mouse-eared, Natterer's bat, brown long-eared, Grey long-eared bat, Noctule, common pipistrelle and Daubenton's bat
• Other small mammals: water shrew, shrew field, squirrels and hares

Recreation

The Rombachtal is well connected by bicycle and hiking trails. As a destination points, the Romberg, who Bangert and the dell offer at the headwaters of Rombaches.