The Mümling is a river of

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

and

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. It is long and lends its name to the Mümlingtal (Mümling valley) in

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' ...

. In

it is sometimes called Mömling in official documents. It is a left tributary of the Main.

Etymology

The Romans named this river ''Nemaninga'', and after it the ''Numerus Brittonum et exploratorum Nemaningensium'' unit in Obernburg. In the 9th century, this river was first mentioned with the name ''Mimininga''. The name ''Mümling'' probably belongs to the so-called "pra-european

hydronym A hydronym (from , , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a subset of top ...

s" as a twin-form of

Neman River Neman, Nemunas or Niemen is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms Lithuania–Russia border, the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its s ...

Cities near Mümling

* Beerfelden * Erbach *

Michelstadt Michelstadt () in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg. It has a population of 28,629 people. Geography Location Michelstadt is the biggest town in the Odenwaldkre ...

* * Bad König * * Höchst im Odenwald *

Breuberg Breuberg is a town in the Odenwaldkreis, Odenwaldkreis district of Hesse, Germany. It is 28 km east of Darmstadt and 20 km southwest of Aschaffenburg. Geography Location Breuberg lies in the northern Odenwald. Neighbouring communi ...

* Mömlingen * * Obernburg

References

External links

Cycling trail "R1" Mümlingtal

Water level at Michelstadtwater level at Hainstadt, HND Bayern

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

Etymology

Cities near Mümling

See also

References

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