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Neunkircher Höhe
The Neunkircher Höhe (605 metres) is the highest elevation of the Hessian part of the Odenwald. The hill is located near the village Neunkirchen and is the origin of the rivers Modau, Gersprenz Gersprenz () is a river that starts in the Odenwald, Hesse and flows into the river Main near Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. Including its source river Mergbach, it is long, without the Mergbach it is long. Tributaries The tributaries of the ... and Lauter. A viewing tower, 34 metres high, was built on the summit in 1906 and replaced an older predecessor, which had been built in 1888 and destroyed by a storm in 1904. Hills of Hesse {{Hesse-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odenwald
The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the Germany, German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße Route, Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried'' (the northeastern section of the Rhine rift) to the west, the Main (river), Main and the Bauland (a mostly unwooded area with good soils) to the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of the Upper Rhine Rift Valley in the Rhine-Main Lowlands – to the north and the Kraichgau to the south. The part south of the Neckar valley is sometimes called the ''Kleiner Odenwald'' ("Little Odenwald"). The northern and western Odenwald belong to southern Hesse, with the south stretching into Baden. In the northeast, a small part lies in Lower Franconia in Bavaria. Geology The Odenwald, along with other parts of the Central German Uplands, belongs to the Variscan orogeny, Variscan, which more than 300 million years ago in the Carbonife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modautal
Modautal (, ) is a municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany. Approximately 5,050 inhabitants live in 11 districts on an area of 31 km2 with about 38.7% wood. The first historical chronicles date back to the 13th century. History The municipality was formed in 1977 by putting together eleven districts during the so-called :de:Gebietsreform, Gebietsreform. During the time of the Celts the area must have already been inhabited since the so-called "Heuneburg" on a hill in Fischbachtal was a Celtic castle where the people and their animals from the region could flee (:de:Fluchtburg, ''Fluchtburg''). To construct such a building, a lot of helping hands must have been living nearby. In the Middle Ages, the eleven villages of Modautal belonged to different knight's families: The family of ''Rodenstein'', the family from ''Frankenstein Castle, Frankenstein'', the one from ''Mosbach'', the family of ''Wallbrunn'' as well as ''Stumpf von Asbach'' and ''Kalb von R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modau
The Modau () is a right tributary of the river Rhine running through the German state of Hesse. Historically, there have been many watermills on the river and its tributaries, giving rise to the name Mühltal ("Mill Valley"), a district through which the river flows. It passes through Darmstadt, and Ober-Ramstadt, and Pfungstadt, and flows into a branch of the Rhine in Stockstadt am Rhein. Erosion Due to erosion of the river, it was needed to place various stones into the channel bed of the river to prevent abrasion, hydraulic action and early attrition See also * List of rivers of Hesse This is a list of rivers of Hesse, Germany: A * Aar, tributary of the Dill * Aar, tributary of the Lahn * Aar, tributary of the Twiste * Aarbach * Affhöllerbach * Ahlersbach, tributary of the Kinzig in Schlüchtern-Herolz * Ahlersbach, tributa ... References Rivers of Hesse Rivers of Germany {{Hesse-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gersprenz
Gersprenz () is a river that starts in the Odenwald, Hesse and flows into the river Main near Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. Including its source river Mergbach, it is long, without the Mergbach it is long. Tributaries The tributaries of the Gersprenz (from source to mouth) are as follows: Left: *Mergbach (10.9 km) *Bach an dem Seegrund (1.5 km) *Michelbach (3.2 km) *Crumbach (2.3 km) *Bierbach (2.9 km) *Küh-Bach (1 km) *Gräbenackers Bach (2.6 km) *Fischbach (9.7 km) *Schaubach (1.4 km) *Wembach (7.9 km) *Dilsbach (7.9 km) *Hirschbach (5 km) *Erbesbach (9 km) Right: *Osterbach (7 km) *Steinbach (2.6 km) *Bach an dem Margrund (1 km) *Bach von dem Vierstöck (2.3 km) *Kainsbach (6.1 km) *Affhöllerbach (4.5 km) *Kilsbach (1.8 km) *Brensbach (5.2 km) *Kohlbach (2.3 km) *Brechelser Floß (1.4 km) See also *List of rivers of Hesse *List of rivers of Bavaria A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauter (Odenwald)
Lauter (; in its lower course: ''Winkelbach'') is a river of Hesse, Germany. Its source is in the Odenwald near Gadernheim. It passes through Bensheim and flows into the Rhine in Gernsheim. See also *List of rivers of Hesse This is a list of rivers of Hesse, Germany: A * Aar, tributary of the Dill * Aar, tributary of the Lahn * Aar, tributary of the Twiste * Aarbach * Affhöllerbach * Ahlersbach, tributary of the Kinzig in Schlüchtern-Herolz * Ahlersbach, tributa ... References Rivers of Hesse Rivers of Germany {{Hesse-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
