The Stove is a right tributary of the Neckars in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Map of Kocher
background
On the Swabian Alb originate the two source rivers of the Kocher, the Black cookers at 1 Oberkochen
in approx. 500 m above sea level NN and the White cooker at 520 m above sea level NN at 2 Undercooking near Bask. The two bodies of water unite in the center of Unterkochen. After a total of 182 km the digester joins Bad friedrichshall at 140 m above sea level NN in the Neckar, only a few kilometers away from his constant companion, the Chasing.
Regions and places
Upper Kocher Valley
The first kilometers of the river bed are in the area of the Swabian Alb.
- In 3 Bask
the river bed is still 430 m high in the district - 4 Wasseralfingen there are still about 400 m. It continues to flow through
- 5 Huettlingen. Here you can still find replicas of the Raetian Limes can be visited. From here is the federal highway
constant companion of the river. In the next village Niederalfingen is the Marienburg, today used as a local museum. Then the river leaves the Swabian Alb and gets into the Swabian-Franconian Forest. - At 6 Abtsgmünd flows into the Flax in the cooker. It originated from Kaisersbach in the Welzheimer Wald approx. 50 km away. The Kocher flows further west through Untergröningen, always accompanied by the in its narrow valley . On the left are those Frickenhöfer heights, on the right the Limpurger Mountains. Now the distance between Kocher and Jagst is getting bigger and another river joins it, the Buhler. It rises near Pommertsweiler only around 2 km from the Kocher, flows through Bühlerzell, Bühlertann, Obersontheim and Vellberg to the north and finally flows into it Braunsbach in the cooker.
- In 7 Sulzbach-Laufen begins the district Schwäbisch Hall, the river is now around 340 m above sea level. NN. Soon is
- 8 Gaildorf reached, from the left flows the redwhich arose at Wüstenrot. On the left side of the river is now the Mainhardt Forest, up to at
- 9 rose Garden with a height of 300 m above sea level. NN the Haller level is reached.
Hohenloher Kochertal
Kochertal bridge near Geislingen am Kocher
- In 10 Schwäbisch Hall the river bed is about 270 m above sea level. NN, here a bay opens up in the Keuper Bergland of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Hohenloher level. The river cuts deeply into the shell limestone and forms steep banks, the Kocher continues to flow through 11 Untermünkheim . Here the Kochertal narrows, the B19 goes to the Hohenlohe level and crosses the autobahn at Kupferzell
. Now the country road accompanies you L 1045 the river. - 12 Braunsbach : At the district 13 Geislingen am Kocher the Bühler flows into the digester from the right. Only one kilometer further on is the river height at 245 m above sea level, the valley is spanned here over a length of 1130 m by a bridge 185 m high, the 1 Kochertal Bridge had the tallest bridge piers in the world when it was completed. Deep gorges left and right, also called blades, make the route varied, then it is
- 14 Künzelsau reached, the district town of the Hohenlohe district. Not far from it
- 15 Ingelfingen , here the Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn can provide insights into the formation of this landscape.
- In 16 Niedernhall the stove falls below the height mark of 200 m above sea level. NN. There are salt deposits here that were already exploited in Celtic times until the 19th century.
- In 17 Forchtenberg flows into the copper from the left into the Kocher, here the old city wall announces the strategic importance of the city on the Kocher.
- At 18 Ohrnberg flows from Öhringen coming Ear in the cooker, which is only here at an altitude of 175 m above sea level. NN is, here the river leaves Hohenlohe, the lower Kochertal lies in the Heilbronner Land.
Lower Kocher Valley
- At 19 Hardthausen am Kocher leaves the L 1045 the river valley of the Kocher, now follows him K 2013. The valley opens up that Brettach comes from the left from the Mainhardt forest and joins
- 20 Neuenstadt am Kocher . The
crosses the river. A few more loops 21 Oedheim and the Hirschfeld with campsite, then the stove - 22 Bad friedrichshall reaches and flows between the residential areas Kochendorf and Waldau towards the Neckar. Here it flows into the Neckar not far from the Kochendorfer lock.
Other goals
- The Neckar Valley and the Jagsttal
- The surroundings of the valley: Heilbronner Land, Hohenloher level, Swabian-Franconian Forest and Eastern Alb
language
getting there
Usually described at the individual locations along the river.
- The Kocher is not navigable and cannot be canoeed on the entire course of the river.
- Arrivals by car are via the motorways A6, A7 and A81 quite possible.
- There are not direct connections by train everywhere.
- The Kocher-Jagst cycle path accompanies the river from the source to the mouth and has good connections to other cycle paths.
