Schaich is a river of

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. It flows into the

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near Neuenhaus.

Geography

Course

The Schaich springs at about 544 m from the ''Hengstbrunnen'' in the forest south of Altdorf a little east of the Gabeleiche at the Rauhen Hau. Its headwaters lie in the north of the 582.6 m high

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. From there the river Schaich flows in mainly eastern direction through or at the edge of the areas of the municipalities Altdorf,

Holzgerlingen Holzgerlingen () is a municipality in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. It is located in district of Böblingen. Geography Holzgerlingen, with its population of 12,700,Weil im Schönbuch Weil im Schönbuch is a municipality in the Böblingen district, middle Neckar region, Stuttgart governmental district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its unusual name (''weil'' means "because" in German) is derived from the presence of a Roman vi ...

Dettenhausen Dettenhausen is a municipality in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Dettenhausen is a village in the administrative district (Kreis) of Tübingen, in the Schönbuch Nature Park. It is located 11 km north of Tübingen ...

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Aichtal Aichtal () is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located 18 km south of Stuttgart.It belongs to the Stuttgart Region (until 1992 ''Region Mittlerer Neckar'') and the European Metropolitan ...

and Schlaitdorf. At the end of the district Neuenhaus of Aichtal it flows at an elevation of 315.9315.9 m southwest into

. At the end of its 23.6 km long path with an average

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of 9.7 ‰ it flows about 228 meters altitude below its source. The river Schaich flows in mainly eastern direction through the natural area

Schönbuch Schönbuch is an almost completely wooded area south west of Stuttgart and part of the Southern German Escarpment Landscape (German: ''südwestdeutsches Schichtstufenland''). In 1972 the centre zone of Schönbuch became the first nature park in ...

, a mountainous forest area of the south German Keuperberglandes. It has its source at the northern edge of the southern Schönbuch, then moves along the southern edge of the Holzgerlinger Platte, the lower course crosses the northern Schönbuch.Friedrich Huttenlocher, Hansjörg Dongus: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 170 Stuttgart.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1949, überarbeitet 1967. →&nbs
Online map
(PDF; 4,0 MB) At the beginning it runs approximately at the northern edge of the nature area Naturpark Schönbuch and later through its north-eastern part.

Catchment area

The Schaich drains an area of 38.1 km², which lies entirely within the Schönbuch natural area. Its highest point is the flat, 582.6 m high summit of the Bromberg south of the Hengstbrunnen, over which the southern watershed runs to the large catchment area of the

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and its tributaries, which drains over the

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to the

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. Further east, in the south, the catchment area of the

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, which flows into the Neckar at Pliezhausen, is bordered by the

, then on this side by the continuously shorter Neckar tributaries. On the northern side, from the mouth upwards only beyond

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only short tributaries compete with the

which takes the Schaich, in the area of the upper course then its partly very near tributary Seitenbach which also runs about east. Finally, north of the immediate source area of the Schaich, only about one kilometre away, the ''Altdorfer Würm'', a branch of the Würm, which drains via the Nagold and the

Enz The Enz is a river flowing north from the Black Forest to the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. It is 106 km long. Its headstreams – the Little Enz (german: Kleine Enz) and the Great Enz or Big Enz (''Große Enz'') – rise in the Northern B ...

only much further down than the Aich into the Neckar. The watershed, which is less prominent on this section than towards the south, is therefore hydrologically the most important.

Tributaries

Direct tributaries from the source to the estuary. Selection.
Stated lengths and catchment areas according to the official water map. * Kreuzwiesenbach, from right near the domain Schaichhof of

Weil im Schönbuch Weil im Schönbuch is a municipality in the Böblingen district, middle Neckar region, Stuttgart governmental district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its unusual name (''weil'' means "because" in German) is derived from the presence of a Roman vi ...

and

, 2,4 km and 2,5 km² * Fronlach, from the right in Dettenhausen, 2.9 km and 3.8 km² * Weinhaldengraben, from left in Dettenhausen * Sauwasengraben, from right to Dettenhausen * (stream from the Hummelklinge), from the left, 0,8 km

References

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