Schießbach (Bühler)

Looking down stream, near the source

The shooting Bach is a stream in the village of Obersontheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in northeastern Baden -Württemberg of 1.7 km in length, which flows from the left in the Buhler in the eponymous main village of the municipality.

• 3.1 Protected Areas

Geography

Source and course

The shooting creek rises about 100 m south of the roundabout intersection of developed country road 1066 and L 1060 on the southwestern edge of Obersontheim between two pastures in a v - shaped groove at about 388 m above sea level. NN. The trough is made up more than occasionally water-bearing cap-and- dirt road ditch continued; 200 m southeast of the mentioned source lying in a meadow almost always wet Kuhle, from the remarkably flowing in damp weather in this Grabenzug water.

Between the two pastures of the shooting Bach pulls north on the gyro to piped under him through and then turns in front of the fire station of the village in a meadow overgrown watercress stream bed to the east, reached a tiny copse, from there left his extended left upper reaches from the woman on the blade. Just before he then L 1066 passes under an angle, is situated on the run, a division structure that some of the water can flow into a well 15 Ar large, well hidden by woodland plantings retention basin left the barrel at high water level above a threshold.

The creek crosses under shortly after he has passed on this one dirt road and then moves on to the east by its more and more deepened valley whose base is divided into private allotments strips. At one point he runs here by a flat concrete gutter, in some places you recognize scoop Kuhlen the leisure gardener, elsewhere it flows in small meanders around tree roots around, most recently, he shares a plot line his run on the old gnarled Korbweidenstrünke. He then runs through a pasture, at its right slope can be clearly seen three natural Terrassierungsebenen, and then enters the upper Sontheimer cemetery in the settlement area of the village. Here he is already turning to the north and then flows in the local area verdolt underground below the space -like broad creek road. Just before the end he steps between the house behind walls again for a few meters into the light, his bed is here given an artificially in a rectangular trough. Then he crossed in now concreted and gedeckeltem channel the main street and leads a land length further to about 365 m above sea level. NN, about 1.7 km below its source, from the right in the Bühler, in the backwater area of the weir at the Kopp mill under tall trees only sluggishly flowing here.

During heavy rainfall can temporarily the tapering at the roundabout ditch the L 1066 out the creek several times its own bulk.

Before the construction of the retention pond and a path next to the Kopp mill weir, by the high water levels of the Buhler now immediately, directly flowing part of the water, the weir into the underwater, it should have come at the mouth almost a year to flooding in the area of ​​Main Street.

Left upper reaches of the woman's blade

The little opening out after the fire station left upper overflow occurs in the woman's blade at about 410 m above sea level. NN. There is a small Stauweiher49.0511111111119.87 above which the small, initially strongly meandering stream incision is to follow up on the western edge of the forest further up the mountain, most recently just more than half a meter deep, dry -loamy well in which collects leaves, and obviously the only flows for rare heavy rain water. Down by the pond, however, the bed leads mostly water. From here this run attracts east by the woman blade and then enters the hallway of the Birngründles, where he first feeds a small pond. After this he moved next to a tiny island forest on his right hand by a small grassy hollow and learns from right something inflow. On this page is a little more resistant sump via the trough. It then passes between two large fields straightened next to a dirt road, lined with a few trees here his grave bed. Shortly after a standing oak of runs in a tube next to a pedestrian underpass under the L 1060 through and emerged beyond a little later in the northern ditch of an access road of the industrial area again. This he crosses then south to open just across a tiny grove in the water-rich, but significantly shorter run right. The left upper course has a length ( from the mountain end of the pond in the woman's blade) of about 1.5 km. Summer he leads sometimes no water at the mouth.

Catchment area

The shooting stream has a catchment area of 2.0 km ². To the west it borders on the the more significant Fischach, north of the Riedbachstraße competes mostly with its tributary Ernsbach and east of between -shifting, short and completely cased short Ebbach, in the east the Buhler itself In the south the watershed to Dietelbach runs, like also the Riedbachstraße and Ebbach draws to Buhler in parallel to him running.

About 30% of the watershed are forest. , The funnel-shaped east open valley of the left upper reaches (woman blade) and occupying this north and south accompanying eastward expiring plateau tongues of Hitzberg and Hoher piece and their relationships The greater part of the remaining catchment area is already in the vicinity of the village Obersontheim together with its southwestern industrial and commercial zone.

On the banks of the shooting Bach is the village Obersontheim, on the northern edge of the catchment area just nor the associated individual house Gipshütte.

Geology

The wet Kuhle still above the official source located in the Lower Gypsum Keuper ( grave field formation ), the same was true for a former plumbed Einbruchsdoline of approximately 20 acres area northwest of the pond in Birngründle that is filled today. The source is located on the border between Gipskeuper and Lettenkeuper ( Lower Keuper ), in which the motion then remains almost to the mouth. The pond in the woman's blade, the entfließt the longer left Quellast, located high in the Gipskeuper, on its road crossing under the road reaches the Lettenkeuper. Hitzberg and Tall piece on both sides of the blade woman lying half or quite in the catchment area, its flat plateaus are formed by the Estherienschichten the upper Gipskeuper.

Landscape and Nature

The shooting Bach produced in a flat country, which is above the source of flat and rounded rolling hills framed confused and crossed with many levels and often wet meadows, the exact drainage direction remains partially unclear in the landscape. Right after passing under the main road roundabout the stream runs in coined by younger commercial, industrial and retail buildings around, the 500 m long zone allotment adjoins, in which he first formed his valley. In the village he is then almost invisible, its recognizable Bach trough sole draws here the creek road.

His left branch has trained in the forest woman blade a miniature Meander with small sandbars and backwaters.

Reserves

Located in Birngründle of the woman blade at the junction of the left branch pond, dammed up until the 1970's or 1980's as a compensatory measure for the embankment of a wetland in the mentioned Einbruchsdoline today is areal natural monument. Likewise, the south of this area, this small wooded area along with adjoining small swamp and a succession area on the southern slopes of the High piece with three oak trees that were on the old forest.

Under forest biotope protection of the pond in the woman's blade and a poor grass at the southeast Hitzberg near the Gipshütte and a box hedge on the L 1060 are east of it. Southwest of skimmed lawn borders a large field bushes at the edge of the forest.

In the field, are of biotopes, protected except some street accompanying box hedges, some wetlands: the already mentioned damp hollow above the source, a wet meadow in Birngründle below the edge of the forest - pond, the already mentioned small swamp there, a reed left of the barrel in the stock fields that has suffered in nature by road right, this all -natural sections of shooting creek from the source to the settlement edge upper Sontheims the cemetery as his left inlet in the eastern Birngründle.