Weilach

The meandering Weilach between the villages Weilach and Schiltberg

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The Weilach is a right tributary of the couple in Upper Bavaria.

River

On their way from the source to Wollomoos ( 493 m above sea level) flows through the Weilach the villages Thalhausen, Aufhausen, Holzhausen, Gundertshausen, Höfarten, Schiltberg, Ried, Weilach and Aresing before 21.9 km Mühlried (407 m above sea level ) joins the pair. Your entire catchment area is 112 km ². In this way, it passes through the districts of Dachau, Aichach -Friedberg and Neuburg -Schrobenhausen. Until the homonymous locality Weilach the creek meanders mostly close to nature, then the stream bed of the river is straightened.

Inflows

  • Alto trench ( right) - from the east, south of the confluence Thalhausen
  • Wild Mooser Bach ( right) - from the southeast, flows through Asbach and Hague, junction west of Hague
  • River trench ( right) - from the southeast, flows through Randelsried and Lauterbach, junction north of Holzhausen
  • Höfarter Bach (left) - from the west, flowing through Allenberg and Höfarten, confluence with Höfarten
  • Rapper Zellerbach (left) - from the west, flowing through Rapperzell and Schiltberg, confluence with Schiltberg
  • Wood countries Bach ( right) - from the southeast, flows through Ruppertszell, Birglbach and Ried, Ried confluence with
  • Quick Bach ( right) - from the east, flows through the village and Laber Saddle Mountain, east of the confluence Weilach
  • Gachenbach (left) - from the west, flowing through Mangelsdorf and Gachenbach, junction north of Weilach
  • Because Bach ( right) - from the southeast, flows through upper Because Bach and Unterweilenbach, junction east of Autenzell

Landscape and land use

The Weilach flows in a Sohlental the Donau- Isar Hill Country. Adjacent meadows and fields are especially where farming intensively in the lower reaches. One consequence of this is the exceeding ecologically relevant guideline values ​​for nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate. Plenty of wide riparian strips are mostly lacking.

Fauna

After its extinction in the 19th century. peopled the beaver (Castor fiber) since a few years back the entire Weilach. In the unloaded smaller tributaries there are still copies of endangered species such as river mussel ( Unio Crassus ) and stone crayfish ( Austropotamobius torrentium ).

Flora

The tree inventory is characterized mainly by black alder ( Alnus glutinosa) and willow species, which are just as typical of these sites as the reed (Phragmites australis) or Marsh Marigold ( Caltha palustris).

  • Danube river system
  • River in Europe
  • River in Bavaria
  • Altomuenster
  • Schiltberg
  • Gachenbach
  • Aresing
  • Schrobenhausen
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