Salzbach (Wiesbaden)

Salt creek below the Wiesbaden city center and south of the A66 in the amount of the hammer mill in a brick flood plain of about 10 meters in width

The salt creek, together with the Rambach a 15.1 km long right tributary of the Rhine and north-east and drains the downtown Wiesbaden.

Course

The Salzbach arises under the name Rambach side in the northeastern city of Wiesbaden forest between cellar head and the Taunus main ridge. It flows in a narrow valley through the districts of Rambach and Sonnenberg. The valley widens only slightly before the union with the Aukammtal, in which the new Wiesbaden spa district lies with the thermal bath.

Salt creek channel

Finally, the stream in front of the spa park pond is introduced above the Kurhaus in an underground duct system to emerge from the shadows after 3.5 kilometers between Theodor -Heuss-Ring and sewage treatment again.

This canal system was 1900-1907 according to the plans of the engineer Josef Brix ( 1859-1943 ) created in the underground downtown Wiesbaden for the salt creek and the other waters that flow to him there. Designed according to the latest findings at that time salt creek channel and its tributaries and branches is considered a masterpiece of engineering art and contemporary craft and is a cultural monument under the Hessian Denkmalschutzgesetz from technical, historical and artistic reasons. The channel consists of a tunnel vault of solid brick masonry with thick glazed and particularly corrosion resistant hard-baked facing bricks. He was endowed from the beginning with electric light.

The course of the channels no longer follows the original watercourses, but has been straightened to the needs of building design. Thus, the salt creek itself, apart from the content that feeds the park pond, past sent from the channel inlet to the south-west at the Kurhaus under the Warmer Damm, where a portion of its water in turn feeds a pond. Then he reached underground crossing the Frankfurter Straße with the little Wilhelmstrasse to be forwarded from here under the Wilhelmstrasse and the Friedrich -Ebert -Allee through its outlet to the south behind the Theodor -Heuss-Ring. He will then west leading to Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof tracks to light. On the eastern side of the main station, there was originally a visitor entrance for guided tours. The channel runs here seven meters below street level. Currently being used as an entry for public tours with access to the Wilhelmstrasse in front of the Villa Clementine.

During heavy rain the salt creek channel is filled to the ceiling with water. However, it may not always grasp the emerging water: So was born on 28 March 1999, the Kurhaus, which is like a locking latch at the end of Rambachtals, flooded after a storm, when the stream bed and the inlet in the underground channel does not hold the water masses could. Also in the vicinity of the main train station, the lowermost part of downtown, drains the rainfall may not always hold, causing here to flooding during heavy storms.

Underground inflows

The introduction of the other flowing underground through the city center waters, occurs collected in corrugated Ritz Bach, at the crossing below the Frankfurter Straße. It was from here leads to the creek the sole name Salzbach because he simultaneously receives the drainage of the many saline thermal springs of the source area.

The underground channel for the corrugated Ritz Bach is exactly 2 miles long and follows from the inlet at Kurt- Schumacher-Ring the course of Blücherstraße, Bleichstraße wells and septic road in order to strive towards the start of the Frankfurt street in a straight line. Move takes on the Ritz Bach Well the kettle creek that runs from the Walk Mill Valley plants in a 1.3 -kilometer-long canal under the Albrecht- Dürer -Straße, the Dürerplatz, the Seerobenstraße, the Sedanplatz and the Bismarck ring. Finally, the Ritz Bach Well the Schwarzenbach take still on shortly before reaching the salt Bach, whose underground path in Nerotal starts, takes him under Taunusstraße and the Wilhelmstrasse and ends after 1.5 km on the Frankfurt street. Before flowing the Schwarzenbach even in the height of the source area of Dambach to, which is also piped underground in the last 400 meters.

Below the channel

South of the Theodor-Heuss- Ring of Salzbach was given a brick channel bed, which will ensure the rapid dissipation of large amounts of surface water from the inner city after a heavy rain.

Below the water treatment plant and the amount of the 300 -meter-long viaduct salt of the federal motorway 66 Salzbach starts its longest tributary, the Wäschbach. This is also the only inflow below the downtown Wiesbaden. Through the industry Kalle- Albert the Salzbach in turn led underground and flows along the border between Mainz and Biebrich - Amoeneburg in the Rhine at current 502 kilometers, compared to the lower end of Petersaue.

The brick channel at the mouth of corrugated Ritz and Kesselbach

The salt creek channel above the corrugated Ritz mouth

Inscription on the corrugated Ritz mouth