The Haidenaab is the right and western headstream of the
River Naab
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The Naab (Czech: ''Nába'') is a river in Bavaria, Germany, and is a left tributary of the Danube. Including its main source river Waldnaab, it is long. Its average discharge at the mouth is .
The Naab is formed by the confluence of th ...
in the
Upper Palatinate in the south German state of
Bavaria. At its confluence with the
Waldnaab
The Waldnaab (Northern Bavarian: ''Woidnaab'', cs, Lesní Nába, in its upper course: ''Tirschenreuther Waldnaab'') is the left-hand, eastern and longest headstream of the River Naab in the Upper Palatinate ( Bavaria, Germany). At its confluen ...
near
Luhe-Wildenau, the Naab is formed.
Course
The
river rises in the district of
Bayreuth
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on the southern edge of the
Fichtelgebirge mountains between
Kirchenpingarten
Kirchenpingarten is a municipality in the district of Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's ro ...
and the mountain of ''Platte'' (), about seven kilometres north of
Speichersdorf
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.
From there the ''Haidenaab'' heads in a southeasterly direction before reaching the district of
Tirschenreuth by the Renaissance castle of Schlackenhof, where it is joined from the northwest by the ''Flernitzbach''. Running past Kaibitz Castle it enters the
district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab after a short distance. Near Dorfgmünd it is joined by its largest tributary, the River
Creußen. The Haidenaab continues past
Pressath
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and
Mantel to
Luhe-Wildenau, where it is united at the village of Unterwildenau with the
Waldnaab
The Waldnaab (Northern Bavarian: ''Woidnaab'', cs, Lesní Nába, in its upper course: ''Tirschenreuther Waldnaab'') is the left-hand, eastern and longest headstream of the River Naab in the Upper Palatinate ( Bavaria, Germany). At its confluen ...
to become the
Naab, which eventually flows into the
Danube. For much of its course the Haidenaab is accompanied by the
Haidenaab Cycleway. This runs through the villages of Kastl, Trabitz, Pressath, Schwarzenbach, Mantel, Weiherhammer, Etzenricht, Oberwildenau and Unterwildenau. As the Naab Cycleway the path continues to the city of Regensburg.
Tributaries
* Blumenbach (left)
* Kaltenbach (left)
* Goldbach (right)
* Weiherlohe (left)
* Tauritzbach (right)
* Flernitzbach (right)
* Mooswiesengraben (left)
* Fallbach (left)
* Grünbach (left)
* Mühlbach (right)
* Brandgraben (left)
* Siechenbach (left)
* Pressather Bach (left)
* Schwarzenbach (left)
*
Creußen (right)
*
Hohlbach (left)
* Heilinglohbach (left)
* Röthenbach (right)
* Eichelbach (right)
* Mühllohbach (right)
* Stockweiherbach (right)
Sources
* „The Naab – mit Waldnaab, Fichtelnaab, Haidenaab.“, 144 pages, Pustet, Regensburg.()
References
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Rivers of Bavaria
Fichtel Mountains
Rivers of Germany