Schozach
river in Germany
Schozach is a river in Germany. It is a right tributary of the Neckar in the southern part of the Heilbronn district of Baden-Württemberg. It has its source near the village Vorhof near Untergruppenbach in the Löwenstein Hills and flows through Oberheinriet, Unterheinriet, Abstatt, Auenstein, Ilsfeld, Schozach and Talheim, and Heilbronn, before it flows into the Neckar near Sontheim, part of Heilbronn. The source is on 301m above sea level, the confluence at 154m above sea level.
Tributaries
Origin of the Schozach in the upper Dautenklinge in a northern tongue of forest meadows near Untergruppenbach atrium on about 305 m.
Stream from the Schwinglesklinge, from right to 250 m at the footbridge at the end of Oberheinriet, 2,2 km. Occurs in the west of the Masselterklinge a little east of the A 81 at about 330 m.
Brook from the Plankenklinge, from right at the sports field of Unterheinriet, 1,0 km. Origins before the eastern edge of the Grafenwald at about 270 m and runs through three ponds.
Buchbach, from left on the Breitwiesen at the end of Unterheinriet at about 235 m 5,6 km.<!
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Schozach” as river in Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as river in Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1622449. Authority coordinates are 49.120, 9.188. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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