The Brexbach (historically: ''Brachysa'') is a river, just under long, and an

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left-hand tributary of the Saynbach in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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The ''Brexbach'' is formed by the uniting of the ''Hinterster Bach'' and ''Vorderster Bach'' in the Grenzhausen municipal forest east of

Höhr-Grenzhausen Höhr-Grenzhausen () is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a centre for the ceramic industry in the Kannenbäckerland with a professional college for ceramics, another for ceramic form, and many others, hence the ...

. Many consider the ''Hinterster Bach'' simply as the name for the upper reaches of the Brexbach. From the confluence of its two headstreams by some

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s, the Brexbach initially runs along the upper edge of the municipality of Höhr-Grenzhausen. In the upper Brexbach valley there was once a mustard mill (''Senfmühle''), which burned down in 1914 - a memorial stone marks the spot - and other mills: the ''Farbmühle'', ''Niesmühle'' and the ''Kühnsmühle'', none of which are used as mills any longer. The Brexbach next reaches the village of Grenzau (a district of Höhr-Grenzhausen) and flows through it below Grenzau Castle. Grenzau station is the terminus for the Brexbach Valley Railway, a line that closed to passenger services in 1989 and goods trains in 1994, but which partly reopened in 2009 as a

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...

. Parallel to the historical railway bed runs the Brexbach Gorge Way (''Brexbachschluchtweg'' including the ''Wäller-Tour'' and ''Saynsteig'' paths), a very varied and, in places, challenging, hiking trail along steep and thickly wooded hillsides. It reaches the Brexbach Valley Pathfinder Camp (''Pfadfindercamp Brexbachtal'') in a meadow bottom; for three kilometres there are camping places, some with refuge huts, and a camp chapel. The lower reaches of the Brexbach run past the former , flow through the village of

Sayn Sayn was a small German county of the Holy Roman Empire which, during the Middle Ages, existed within what is today Rheinland-Pfalz. There have been two Counties of Sayn. The first emerged in 1139 and became closely associated with the County o ...

below

Sayn Castle The ruins of Sayn Castle (german: Burg Sayn), the 12th century family castle of the counts of Sayn and Sayn-Wittgenstein, are in Sayn, part of the borough of Bendorf on the Rhine, between Koblenz and Neuwied in the county of Mayen-Koblenz in the ...

immediately next to the old defensive wall, before emptying into the Saynbach in the park of . The Saynbach discharges into the

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in the area of

Bendorf Bendorf () is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. north of Koblenz. Structure of the town The town consists of the following districts: *Bendorf *Sayn *Mülhofen *St ...

harbour.

Tributaries

* Hinterster Bach (''right-hand headstream''), 3.2 km * Vorderster Bach (''left-hand headstream''), 1.3 km * Seelbach (''right''), 2.2 km * Masselbach (''right''), 9.5 km * Felsgraben (''right''), 0.8 km * Eisenbach (''left''), 1.0 km * Nauorter-Floß (''right''), 1.6 km

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Homepage of the Brexbach Valley Pathfinder Camp

Homepage of the Brexbach Valley Railway
{{Authority control Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate Rivers of the Westerwald Rivers of Germany

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