Vorbach (Tauber, Rothenburg ob der Tauber)

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The Vorbach is a left tributary of the Tauber Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria.

Geography

Course

The Vorbach will be named Heiligenbronngraben the hamlet Hummertsweiler the city Schrozberg in the northeast of the district of Schwäbisch Hall on the edge of east -withdrawing furlongs, which he immediately south of the larger hamlet Heiligenbronn follows in light northern sheet to about a 0.8 -acre pond, which he dines, and then move on to the east and soon to cross the border to Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria.

Then he takes from the right with about 0.8 km long only half right source Bach Keitel Hofer to ditch that comes from Schrozberger Keitelhof and has also recently crossed the border. Again, from the right leads immediately afterwards the about 0.9 km long Kreuzwiesenhütte ditch west of the Wild height. The creek then pulls in the beginning still quite shallow trough between Rothenburg part places Hemmendorf in the north and Leuzenbronn in the south through it, from the latter forth flows along the link road 0.7 km long village ditch, after the village one more time from the right with only temporary water-bearing inflow of 1.3 km in length, called long meadow ditch which then drained at its uppermost run directly on the southern edge of the people Bronner precincts of a 0.4 -acre pond and the middle reaches of some smaller fish pond.

Then it reached from the northwest and for the first time from the left of the hamlet Creglinger Reutsachen forth the 1.0 km long Reutsachsener ditch. This, as he himself runs, here just a few hundred meters in a deep, wooded hollow. On both sides of the tributary valley slopes are being dug in the old quarries in the north is a 0.4 -hectare quarry pond. Then the Vorbach pervades the Rothenburg district Vorbach, behind the forests in the notched valley the slopes push almost to the banks turn down. The connecting road of the village follows the creek down the valley, which opens after about a further one and a half kilometers run over Rothenburg Bronnenmühle after a total of 6.6 km total length from the left in the upper Tauber.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​11.1 km ² comprises Vorbachs. It has approximately the shape of a 7 km long, west - east oriented spindle by a branch road from the L 1055 in the high wood to the west of Hummertsweiler to the mouth in the east at Rothenburg. Transverse to the width remains everywhere below 3 km.

In the north and north-east of the catchment area of ​​Hohbachs located at, in the south east of the flashing Bach. In the southwest, the significant Schandtauber competes in the northwest on two short pieces before the Lord Bach and then this tapered Schmerbach. All of these drain into the Tauber.

Except for the two outermost peaks in the high spindle wood and on the slopes of the lower valley, which is forest, lies the entire catchment area in open landscape, which is used almost exclusively for agricultural purposes. Settlement focuses on the three larger hamlet Heiligenbronn ( to Schrozberg ) to the west, Reutsachsen ( Creglingen ) in the north and Leuzenbronn ( about Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) in the south, all of which are on the plateau, while the river valley itself is almost uninhabited.