Kirnach (Brigach)

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The Kirnach is a 12 km long river in the eastern Black Forest in Baden- Württemberg, which opens at Villingen in the Black Forest -Baar -Kreis from the right and the west in the middle Brigach.

Name

The name of the Kirnach is of Germanic origin and means " mill ". It is derived from the Middle High German " Kürne ", Old High German " Quirn " and Germanic " kwirn -uc ".

Course

The Kirnach originates on the Oberkirn Acher part of the municipality town of St. Georgen on the eastern slopes of the mountain when boiler Hagmichelshof the tine Kesselberg to about 950 m above sea level. NHN. In very resistant ostsüdöstlichem run he runs through the districts of Oberkirnach, the independent village Unterkirnach and last through barely populated western parts of Villingen- Schwenningen, where it opens from right opposite the train station in Villingen- Kirnach the Brigach.

The Kirnach accumulated on their way from both sides of a number of short feeds, one that is important with distance of 4,4 km long right Schlegel Bach which tapers in their central Unterkirnach that the only major Ansiedllung in the valley and the 33.1 km ² large inflow area is, where else scattered settlements and forests dominate.