Zaber

The Zaber at the mouth in Lauffen

Course of the river Zaber (red)

The Zaber is a 22 km long river in the middle of Baden- Württemberg, the left and west ends in Lauffen in the district of Heilbronn in the Neckar. According to him, the medieval Zabergau was named. The shallow water is not navigable.

Geography

Zaberursprung

The Zaber arises in the district of Heilbronn about two kilometers south-southwest of Zaberfeld on the northern slope of the wooded Strombergs. Under the hairpin bend in the road climbing Zaberfeld - Saxons Home Häfnerhaslach (K 2061 ) are on the ground nor on the boundary of Zaberfeld some sources that combine rapidly.

Course

The Zaber flows down the stream a mountainside to the north and into the reservoir Ehmetsklinge, which is still well fed by two other streams, one of which from the eponymous Ehmetsklinge is slightly longer than the Zaber. After the lake the Zaber goes on an easterly course, which she maintains to the mouth with only minor fluctuations.

First, it crosses Zaberfeld, behind which they reach a left and a right tributary, both of which are also dammed in their valleys to a lake. Then, it switches over to the community Oberpfaffenhofen, crosses here in very gefällearmem valley initially the village hamlet on the Zaber, from where the first vineyards cover the left slope. Behind the valley expands very much and it flows through Oberpfaffenhofen itself, which avoids the flood plain in favor of the lower slopes feet.

Behind Güglingen and then its Teilort Frauenzimmern wine is also on the distant hills before the Stromberg in the south. Brack home is located in a little distance on the left hill and in the valley of the incoming from the left forest stream, with over 7 km of the first longer inflow. Immediately afterwards against the Teilort Meimsheim runs to a similar long right tributary, the coming of Cleebronn Herrenwies Bach.

Now the river burrows deeper and the valley is narrow. In a Talmäander joins from the left, the 9 km long Neipperger Baechle turn left, the longest tributary and last major at all. Soon after, the river enters the sprawling former Lauffener Neckar sling the Neckar itself has left and its a downward arc of the quarter Zaber serves as the Valley today.

Lauffen here is mostly right on the old Umlaufberg which is flattened to the hill. After the Zaber has passed through the small town, it opens below the local lock installations from the left and east is 22 km running into the Neckar.

Catchment area

The catchment area is 114 km ² and lies between the mountain range of Heuchelberg in the south-southwest and the current mountain in the north-northwest. In the north, beyond the Heuchelberg the flax drained eastward to the river Neckar, in the south behind the Stromberg the Metter and her closer Creek Kirnbach in synchronization to the lowest Enz both sides of the lower reaches in to the east towards widening mountain funnel running at this smaller competitors. Only from the western tip of the catchment area draws the neighboring river Kraichbach directly to the Rhine in North West Run.

Inflow table

Naming

The name derives from the Zaber was for the Zabergäu between the mountain ranges Heuchelberg and Stromberg.