Salzbach (Elbbach)
Salt creek in the village of Thalheim
The salt creek is a good nine kilometers long, right and north-western tributary of the Elbbaches in the Westerwald. With its longest Quellast it reaches about 10.6 km.
Course
The Salzbach comes about by the confluence of multiple source branches. The western of which is produced at an altitude of about 339 m above sea level. NN south of Weltersburg, of about 1.5 km long eastern starts north of Girkenroth its course.
After the union of its source branches of the salt creek continues its course to the south, reached here after a good 400 meters, the village of salt, which it traverses partially underground piping. Then he moves, again and again fed by small meadow ditches, through a green landscape. In the lower part of the numerous trees lining its shores. When Miihlberg soft then the meadows and the trees of the Strutwaldes the valley narrows clearly. A little further south, it flows from the right nor the Walmeroder Bach. The salt stream forces now eastwards through a narrow, wooded valley, past the ruins of the mill Struth, and occurs after about half a kilometer of Rhineland- Palatinate, according to Hesse.
Now it flows to the southeast, the edge of the forest Thalheimer to his right. In this area, approximately parallel running mill race was formerly diverted to the left, the sooner zuführte the Schlaudermühle water. Immediately after this he leaves the forest edge behind and it flows him near the Birkenhofes from the right coming from the south Molsberger Bach. It follows then the northern edge of spine castle - Thalheim, north takes the new road on its left side, the approaching end before the northeast thorn villages Bach on and - after passing under the new road only about 60 meters brook down in the center - the to almost opposite Seifenbach. After leaving the village of Salt creek between the nature reserve flows Thalheimer gravel pit in the northeast and the standing in a deciduous forest in the southwest Neumühlestrasse through, passing the salt Hof, where he turns more and more to the south. The town of Hadamar Niederzeuzheim he then circulates in the southwest, still crosses under the tracks of the upper Westerwaldbahn and opens immediately afterwards on the southern edge of the village, at an altitude of about 143 m above sea level. NN in the Elbbach.
Data and character
The salt creek is a coarse material rich, siliceous low mountain. Its catchment area covers an area of 30.7 square kilometers.
Inflows
- Walmeroder Bach ( right), 2.6 km
- Molsberger Bach ( right), 1.8 km
- Dorn villages Bach ( left), (gravel Bach) 4.3 km
- Seifenbach (right), 1.8 km