Wagensteigbach
In the middle Wagensteigtal
The car Steigbach is 17.4 km long, right and northern source river of Dreisamstadion the Middle Black Forest (Baden- Württemberg, Germany ).
Course
The car Steigbach arises as Erlenbach in the Black Forest Nature Park in the municipality of St. Margen in the area of transition between the historic mountain cave digging and Turner. The ultimate source is located at an altitude of 1015 m above sea level. NN at Christenmartinshof. The valley descends gradually in the southern part of the rich grassland plateau around St. Margen and is wooded on the steeper slopes. From the hamlet of felling the felling Bach Bach is called. South of St. Margen in serpentine reaches the valley floor of the L 128 Wagensteig valley, which has a depth of around 250 meters here. From the mouth of the creek Schweigbrunnenbaches takes the name Wagensteig Bach. From then flows Wagensteig Bach in a southwesterly direction through Wagensteig ( northeastern part of the municipality of Bach book ). In rapid succession, flow from the east extending in the steep and narrow valleys tributary streams Spirzenbach (road Freiburg Furtwangen ), Gries Dobel Bach and Diezendobelbach one.
From the book Bach Bach Wagensteig occurs at an altitude of 450 m above sea level. NN in the Hinterzarten basin and turns to the north-west. Here he is forced by large alluvial fans of Rotbaches at the northern edge and then decreases near the Buchbacher Wiesneck district, at about 415 m above sea level. NN, its largest tributary to, the coming of the northeast Ibenbach whose source is located between St. Margen and St. Peter.
After the Wagensteig Bach has passed through the northern outskirts of the castle (eastern part of the municipality of Kirchzarten ), he joins between the nucleus of Kirchzarten and the Stegener the district of birch trees near the bridge of the L 127 to 377 m above sea level. NN with the Rotbach to Dreisamstadion.
Name
The other way round as usual, the river is named after the valley at the car Steigbach, the car platforms, which was once an important crossing over the Black Forest, until the road could be better developed by the Hell Valley, today's B 31.