Tannschorrenbach

Tannschorrenweiher

The Tannschorrenbach is a creek on the boundary of Tannheim in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia. It rises in a wooded area called Tannenschorren and ends after about 500 m in the Tannenschorrenweiher. Approximately 300 m downstream of the outflow of the creek from the Tannenschorrenweiher, it receives its main tributary of the sources of the Wolf hole. Then it flows through the town above and below ground and ends after about four kilometers in Illerkanal. From his one liter water for the local drinking water supply in 2011 were consistently taken per second. It thus contributes twenty percent for the local supply of drinking water. Its average discharge, measured on a normal year, is thirty-five liters per second.

Course

The headwaters of the Tannschorrenbaches is the wolf hole above the Tannenschorrenweihers in the forest Stückeen genannz Langer Ghau and Tannschorren at 630 m. The Tannschorrenweiher, which impounds the Tannschorrenbach, is the property of the former ducal house of rich Schaesberg. The Tannschorrenbach is advanced to a pumping station at the water tower in the forest horn.

The local Narrenzunft " Daaschora Weibla " derives its name from the creek ago.

Mühlebachstrasse

The mill stream, a branch of the Tannschorrenbaches, reached via a hang out Mühlkanal after half a kilometer, the Upper Mill. Five hundred meters below is the Lower Mill. Both mills are among the approximately one hundred of the mill Mills Road Upper Swabia. The Upper Mill appears in the 1529 Directory of the former imperial abbey of the Benedictine monastery Ochsenhausen as a second grist mill. The Lower Mill, also called grain mill St. Benignus, is the only active flour mill in the district of Biberach with water wheel. On a normal day, the mill achieved a flow rate of thirty-five liters per second.

The recombined with the mill creek Tannschorrenbach is out there about an overshot iron wheel with diameter of 7 m from the year 1884. The stream flows on the northern outskirts of Tannheim in a small pond called Brühl. From there the stream is directed into the sewage treatment plant of the village of Iller power plant Plant II and then empties into the Illerkanal.

In 2010, the community took to the local water supply one liter of water per second from the source water of the stream. With this amount of stream covered one-fifth the water supply of the municipality Tannheim. The remaining water, ground water of the Iller, comes from the pumping station at Opfinger floor in Illertal. A request of the mayor to increase the amount withdrawn to eight liters per second for the community water supply declined from the local council in 2010. The Church is not a member of the Association Illertal purpose water supply ( ZVI ).