Talbach is a stream in the Sigmaringen district in southern

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. It is a left tributary of the Ablach in Menningen.

Geography

Course

The Talbach originates a quarter of a kilometre south of the village border of Engelswies, in the

Inzigkofen Inzigkofen is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Historically, it is part of the Swabian north Alpine foreland basin. It consists of three districts: Within Engelswies is the now-abandoned Talsbe ...

municipality on the eastern slope of ''Talsberg'' at just 665 m above sea level in the middle of fields. First of all, flowing eastward, the stream creates a nearly one and a half kilometer long northern arc, and then it flows south. After continuing for almost the same distance again, mostly on the edge of the forests ''Kohlhau'' and ''Hartwald,'' it reaches the mouth of ''Kaibach'', the first major inlet, which joins the stream from the right as the Talbach enters the forest. Immediately afterwards the stream becomes a swampy

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. The stream sporadically emerges and disappears again, flowing through the valley section of the forest, and through the

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stone gutter ("Felsentäle") in the Hartwald. The stream then continues in a westerly direction and picks up the almost equally long Annenbach from the right, at the edge of the forest. In the corridor, the shorter Krebsbach flows out of the Hartwald into the Talbach, which is already near the northern outskirts of Menningen. The Weiherbach inlet then joins the stream from the northeast, at which point, the Talbach pivots. After another approximately 700 meters, it flows through the village, joining the Ablach from the left about 592 m above sea level.

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