Steinbach (Villicher Bach)

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The Steinbach is a creek in Bonn, municipality Beuel. Its total length is 1.45 km, its catchment area covers 0.2 square kilometers.

Course

The Steinbach occurs at the border of Holzlar against Sankt Augustin belonging to the municipality Hangelar on the edge of the nature reserve " wet meadows and swamp forests Kohlkaul ". The water flows from the southwest direction and flows Bechlinghoven in the Vilicher Bach, who is referred to in this section as "Mill Brook".

Characteristics

The Steinbach crosses mostly residential area and therefore shows up in many parts as a moderately close to nature and mainly developed waters. Around 120 meters of the flow zone are plumbed. In the upper reaches, however, the Steinbach also passes through protected area and agricultural and forestry Nutzgebiet. The creek is consistently associated with the water quality class III, which corresponds to a strong contamination. This is due to, among other discharges of precipitation and drainage water as well as of pre-purified wastewater. The normal discharge flow of Steinbach is 0-3 liters per second, at high tide, the maximum discharge rate is 400 l / s

Tributaries

The Steinbach has an approximately 0.64 km long former side run that survived after expansion as a green design element in a residential area, but is no longer connected to the Steinbach. This body of water that is referred to as " nameless stream on the Vogelweide " in Bach Development Plan of the City of Bonn, created in the district Holzlar the Bonn city Beuel district level with the street "Am Tiergarten " and flows the course of the street "An der Vogelweide " following in western direction. Once this road is on discharges into the Finkenweg, the water follows this path in a northerly direction, and finally flows into a standing water, which is located at the level of the junction of the Finkenwegs in the Kautexstraße. Only a few meters north of the volksmundlich as " Kautexweiher " designated estuary waters lies the nature reserve "Humidity abandoned grasslands and Mähweiden Kohlkaul " while the west adjoining the premises of the automotive supplier Kautex.

The nameless stream on the Vogelweide is piped to a length of 340 meters and thus more than half of its flow path. In the open position the waters like a roadside ditch. He has only a weak nature nearby. The normal discharge rate is very low with 0-2 liters per second, but may rise in high water up to 80 l / s.