Kötach

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The Kötach is a left tributary of the Danube River, which drains the Ostbaar to a considerable extent. It is named after the silent Musel the second significant tributary of the Danube and flows like these mostly from north to south.

Course

The Kötach rises on the southern outskirts Tuningens as a small trickle and flows first in a south-westerly direction before turning south and the dammed lake Sunthauser feeds. Then it flows through the homonymous village and shared this for a few centuries into a Protestant north and a Catholic south half. After she left Sunthausen behind her, she passes under the motorway A 864 close to the motorway triangle Bad Durrheim.

In its further course it flows past Biesingen extending the right of the Kötach. After that separates the upper Baldinger Hoernle of the village, where they can these be left before they head south past continues to flow at lower Baldingen. South of sub Baldingen it flows to the treatment plant Kötachtal past, which cleans the wastewater of Ostbaar.

Then it flows through a length of about five kilometers, the Kötachtal and crosses under this equal to twice the A81 motorway on the eastern edge of the valley rises the up to 900 m high ridge of Baldinger mountain, on the western first of the woods forest before the Wartenberg, of an already extinct volcano, the city Geisingen announced. There the Kötach empties into the Danube still young, but their water flows mainly due to several Danube infiltration into the catchment area of the Rhine and not in the Black Sea.

• Danube river system
• River in Europe
• River in Baden- Württemberg
• Waters in the Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis