Fils (river)
Fils | |
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Swabian Alb | |
Mouth | |
• location | Neckar |
• coordinates | 48°42′23″N 9°25′13″E / 48.70639°N 9.42028°E |
Length | 62.9 km (39.1 mi) |
Basin size | 699 km2 (270 sq mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Neckar→ Rhine→ North Sea |
Tributaries | |
• right | Eyb, Lauter |
The Fils is a 63-kilometre-long (39 mi) river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, a right tributary of the Neckar.
Its source is in the
. Due to the contribution of the Fils, the Neckar is navigable from there.Geography
Course
The Fils has its source on the
The young
The Eyb is the first longer and on the surface also more catchment area-rich tributary from the right side, after the streams running in from the left from the crumbling inner side of the Alb Eaves have so far regularly exceeded their counterparts on the edge of the flat Alb plateau in both characteristics. The Eyb river absorbs a northwestern tributary from Amstetten before its mouth, which is why Geislingen lies in a wide valley spider. From now on, the Fils also runs in a northwesterly direction through its outlet bay from the Alb into the Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains, where Kuchen and then at the tributary of the Marrbach Gingen lie. In the meantime, before the Alb, the right Lauter, the largest tributary of the Fils at all, flows into Süßen on its last west-southwestern course. From here on the Fils runs approximately westward in a constantly increasing distance from the step edge of the Alb to its left, which is why from now on the left and right tributaries become more similar in length and catchment area.
In the now wide valley follow
Thereupon the Fils reaches Plochingen, where it flows at 248.3 m after about 63 kilometres and almost 377 metres of altitude below its source from the right into the left curve of the Neckar there; it thus has a mean bottom gradient of about 6°. ‰. Its catchment area covers about 707 km2. It is the fifth largest Neckar tributary by length and the fourth largest by catchment area.
Catchment area
The 707 km2 catchment area of the Fils is divided into a somewhat smaller southern part in the
Tributaries
From Sourcce to Mussle, Tributaries longer then 5 km:[1]
- Hohlbach, (left), 7,41 km
- Hartel, (left), 5,86 km
- Fischbach, (left), 5,177 km
- Rohrbach, (left), 5,228 km
- Eyb, (right), 12,786 km
- Lauter, (right), 16,36 km
- Schweinbach, (left), 6,423 km
- Krumm, (right), 12,619 km
- Weilerbach, (left), 9,473 km
- Heubach, (left), 10,946 km
- Marbach, (right), 13,171 km
- Pfuhlbach, (left), 12,561 km
- Butzbach (Fils), (left), 16,473 km
- Nassach, (right), 9,22 km
- Kirnbach, (right), 5,299 km
- Reichenbach, (right), 7,993 km
- Lützelbach, (right), 5,356 km
- Talbach, (left), 11,626 km
References
- ^ "Map service of LUBW". Daten- und Kartendienst der LUBW.