The Auer (also called Mühlbach or Ziegelbach) is a river in

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which springs from the western edge of the

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in the Hessian

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between Balkhausen and

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-Hochstädten. It measures 6.7 kilometers in length and is part of the

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river system.

Mühlbach

The Auer has ten tributaries and flows through the

district of Hochstädten, past the

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factory and the through the valley

Mühltal Mühltal is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated southeast of Darmstadt from which it is separated by the ''Stadtwald'' (City Forest). Historically, there have been many watermills on Modau river ...

towards Bensheim-Auerbach. In the past, there were seven mills in the Mühltal powered by the Auer's water. Therefore here the brook's vernacular name is Mühlbach (mill brook). The mill in the village's center is nowadays a wine restaurant, another mill is a nursing home, and another mill is the studio and residential house of an Auerbach-based artist. The other four mills (Kadelsmühle, Wiemersmühle, Mößingersmühle and Jungmühle) are used as residential houses. The Mühltal is bordered to the north by the

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hill along with

Auerbach Castle Auerbach Castle is one of several fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany. The castle was originally built by King Charlemagne (Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire) and rebuilt by Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen dyn ...

, an old castle ruin, and to the south by the federal park Fürstenlager.

Auerbach

In the district of Bensheim-Auerbach, the Auer is split into two parts, one above ground and the other being a subterranean channel. Because of the recurring floods in the street Bachgasse, the largest part of the Auer was channeled in the 1980s. Like at the antetype

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, an ever constant part of the Auer flows openly through the Bachgasse, through the old village of Auerbach passing numerous half-timbered buildings towards the

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(Darmstädter Straße).

Ziegelbach

After the two streams united again, the Auer crosses the

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under ground and flows towards the Auerbach railway station. Since around 1850 there was a brick factory, also porcelain factory, the Auer is called there also ''Ziegelbach'' (brick brook).Landesamt für Denkmal-Pflege Hessen
Porcelain factory
/ref> After crossing the railway line Darmstadt-Heidelberg, the Auer reaches after approximately 1 km its mouth. It flows into the Winkelbach coming from Bensheim, which is called upstream of the Auer's mouth

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. The Winkelbach flows at

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into the

. The total length of the Auer from the source to the mouth is 6.7 km.

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* Rivers of Hesse Rivers of Germany {{Hesse-river-stub

Mühlbach

Auerbach

Ziegelbach

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