Wickerbach

View from the Flörsheimer waiting for Wickerbachaue with the vineyards of Wicker and later mass home

The Wicker brook is a body of water that flows through the eastern suburbs of Wiesbaden and empties into the Main between Hochheim am Main and Florsheim.

River

The Wickerbach springs northwest of the center of Wiesbaden- Naurod, about 100 meters north of the main road 455 From there it flows through Naurod partly underground in a southeasterly direction. Its tributaries on the way to the Main are the Aubach in Wiesbaden- Auringen, the Medenbach in Wiesbaden- Breckenheim, the blades bei Hofheim- Wallau, which he then flows through and the Nordenstädter Bach at Delkenheim whose situated on a hill village he on wraps around three sides. This hill accompanied his another run in the East as a soaring ever higher ground level on which the village of Hochheim mass home is first, followed by Florsheim -Wicker as the last and the eponymous resort, above the valley of the Wicker brook. Part of the Wickerer vineyards located on steep slopes southwest between the place and the creek.

The said premises stage forces the Wickerbach of Delkenheim to Wicker and beyond opens up to Wiesenmuhle to a gentle curve to the right until it intersects this stage in the recreational area and nature reserve Falkenberg and the Flörsheimer district Kolo / Falkenberg in the Main. From Wicker terrain level above the flood plain and the valley cut to Kolo settlement forms an essential part of the Flörsheimer Switzerland.

The section of the valley landscape from wicker to district Kolo was expelled in 1998 under the name Wickerbachaue of Florsheim and Hochheim as nature and landscape protection area. The designated as a nature reserve parts include the sandy turf and Semi-arid Brome grass on Geisberg, the southern part of Wickerbachaue with their bank crashes and structural rich hedgerows and scrub vegetation as well as parts of the former chalk pit on Geisenberg. They have a size of about 39 hectares. Amounts reported in the conservation area parts mainly include the northern portion of the Bachaue with its intensively used grassland areas and the gardens and to the south the ornithological significance of fruit trees and hedges and shrubbery vegetation at Falkenberg. They have a size of about 59 hectares. The land is under a conservation form a residue of the original in the Main -Taunus foothills large area occurring natural and extensively used green corridors.

The Regional Park Rhein- Main has created in the Wickerbachaue a Regionalparkweg realized a number of projects and the valley as upgraded as a recreational area. This Regionalparkweg leads from the Elizabeth Street that crosses the creek between Delkenheim and mass home and here the circular boundary of the Main- Taunus district forms to Kolo.

Data

The length of the river is nearly 24 kilometers and the above-ground catchment area 64.5 km ².

From the source to the confluence of the Medenbachs Wickerbach is a body of water III. Order. From there to the confluence with the Main a body of water of the second order.