Course The
Ittling rises south of the
Simmelsdorf village of Ittling, just above the
Ittlinger mill, in a valley that is clearly incised here, runs to the southwest and is wooded except for a narrow floodplain. There are two springs, the one furthest from the mouth rises at about 440 m above sea level . Immediately after this, the river splits into two branches, the one that initially runs on the left side of the valley road is fed by another spring on the lower slope at about 445 m above sea level. Opposite the Ittlinger mill, which follows shortly after and through whose grounds both branches then run, there is a large quarry in the White Jurassic limestone, which is mostly hidden by trees. The branches reunite, and further downstream the Ittling flows through two of the municipality's mill hamlets,
Oberachtel and
Unterachtel. Between the last pair of branches there are half a dozen small fish ponds, and there are a few more below Unterachtel. Then the Ittling flows from the left and finally east at over 395m above sea level, joining the
Naifer to form the Schnaittach, which flows a little further downstream on a southwesterly course through the municipality's village of
Diepoltsdorf. The district road
LAU2, which is also called Achtelstraße, runs through the valley from Ittling.
Catchment area The catchment area of the Ittlinger Bach is about 12.4 km² and extends more than 5.5 km from the rocky summit of the Hühnerstein (598m above sea level ) southwest to the mouth. In its upper area there are only dry valleys, the stream only begins far downstream after the eponymous village of Ittling. The highest point at 635m above sea level is on the eastern watershed on the rocky summit of the Hohe Reut east of the Betzenstein
village of Spies; several other peaks also rise above 600m above sea level. There are no open competitors in the upper catchment area, so that the drainage in the
Karst flows underground in other directions than the surrounding dry valleys suggest, namely north-west and north of the catchment area in a northerly direction to the
Trubach; east of it approximately southeast to the
Regnitz, partly also south via the
Sittenbach. Further downstream in the area of the stream, near the confluence with the
Schnaittach, the Osternoher Bach, which feeds it, is briefly the southeastern competitor, whose right upper course, the Naifer Bach, is longer the western one.
Pegnitz river system •
Flowing waters in the Pegnitz river system Pathway The Ittling flows through the following places: •
Ittlinger Mühle •
Oberachtel (hamlet) •
Unterachtel (hamlet) • Wachsteinhaus (detached house, at the mouth of the Brünstberg to the Naifertal) They all belong to the municipality of Simmelsdorf in the district of
Nürnberger Land. Other places in the catchment area are the village of Ittling in Simmelsdorf, as well as part of the village of Bernhof in the southeastern neighboring market town of Schnaittach. The village of Spies and the hamlet of Schermshöhe lie within the watershed in the area of the town of Betzenstein in the district of
Bayreuth. == Geology ==