Schambach (Riedenburg)

The Schambach according to their origin in Schamhaupten

Waterwheel at Schambach origin

The Schambach is a 17 km long right tributary of the Altmühltherme at Ried castle, in the southeastern foothills of the Franconian Alb.

Schambach origin

The Schambach origin is located in Schamhaupten. It is a karst spring with an average bed of 330 liters per second. The sources are located in a large source pond, which turns into a small. The large pond is about 150 meters long, 35 meters wide and encloses a small island.

Uphill from here can be the valley much further pursue, namely when it starts Dörndorf approximately nine kilometers in a straight line west-northwest of Schamhaupten, but it is permanently dry in most sections. An unstable upper reaches just above the Schambach origin begins in the inlet of the Hollental into Forsttal the Red Cross and is about 2.3 kilometers long.

Course

The Schambach flows Schamhaupten by the Riedenburger Schambachtal first to the south. In Sander village she turns toward the east, reaching over New Hinz Hausen and Sollern the market Altmannsteinstrasse. From there, her river is accompanied by the state road 2231 north. It flows on through Hexenagger and the place of the same name Schambach. In Riedenburg the Schambach opens via a rock staircase with a waterfall of over five meters in the city pond which has a connection to Altmühltherme.

Your water quality class II ( moderately polluted ).

History

To the dry upper valley and the upper reaches of Schambach to its left turn from Altmannsteinstrasse follows on the right edge of hills at a distance of usually under a kilometer of the Upper Germanic Rhaetian Limes -.