Linzer Aach
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The Linz Aach is an approximately 52 kilometer long, north or right tributary of Lake Constance and the Rhine in order Linzgau in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ).
Name customer
The Linz Aach was probably originally the name of Linz, which goes back to a Celtic river name Lentia. After the flow of Alemannic part of the tribe Lentienser and, similar to other rivers, the surrounding landscape Linzgau was named ( an early medieval county).
Today Linzer Aach As will be hereinafter referred to as called River in its middle reaches Salem also Aach or Rear Aach and in its lower reaches and mouth region Seefeld Aach.
Course
The Linz Aach rises in the district of Sigmaringen in the oven Wanger Ried, a bog between stove cheeks and Alberweiler. From there it flows through the at Ruhestetten (southern part of community forest ) natural reserve of calm Stetter Ried, where they (west -southwest district of Pfullendorf ) runs its first kilometers in a north-easterly direction to and through Aach -Linz. They affected the places Aach in the north and in the south of Linz. Then she makes an elongated curve to the right, to flow in the opposite direction back through the south of Linz. Then extend past the small Grimiswald takes Linzer Aach south of Lautenbach ( north-eastern part of the municipality of Herdwangen- Schoenach ) the coming of the West cooker Bach on, and from then flows mainly in the south. In Schoenach the approach from the west flowing Wäschbach opens a.
Below Schönachs occurs Linzer Aach in Aach Tobel one, a steep wooded valley at Taisersdorf and Hohenbodman ( north-eastern part of the municipality of Owingen ), which is intersected by the Aach in the soft molasse sandstone and is designated as a nature reserve; from Aach Tobel Linzer Aach runs in the Lake Constance region. From the observation tower (658 meters above sea level. NN ), which is about 200 meters south of Hohenbodman, the prospect of between Bruckfelden (western part of the municipality of Frickingen ) in the north and Lippertsreute can be enjoyed parts of this ravine, ( north-east district of Überlingen ) in south ends.
From these two towns Linz Aach flows through the valley of Salem. In it she happened including the nucleus of Frickingen and the Salem Castle (about 1.5 km north of Salem), from Canal Stefan fields (named after Stefan field, northern part of the municipality of Salem) accompanied branching from the Linz Aach and east of Buggensegel again encounters this, and flows through the nucleus Salem Municipality. From here the river Aach Salem also is called.
A few hundred meters northeast of the hamlet Wehhausen ( Salem ) opens the coming from the north Deggenhauser Aach into Linzer Aach. Then she makes at Ahausen (western part of the municipality of Bermatingen ), where it is also called Rear Aach, an elongated curve to the right, and finally mainly to flow westwards.
In its lower reaches and the estuary area, even Seefeld Aach, called the Linz Aach goes according Uhldingen Mühlhofen where they between the Bodensee village Unteruhldingen ( south-western part of the municipality of Uhldingen Mühlhofen ) in the south and Lake Constance Weiler Seefelden (western part of the municipality of Uhldingen Mühlhofen ) in north to the Lake Überlingen opens (Northwest part of the Upper Lake Constance ) and thus into the Rhine in the Nature Reserve Seefeld Aach mouth.
Watershed
The headwaters of the Linz Aach is on the Rhine-Danube watershed, which is part of the main European watershed. The Linz Aach flows in a predominantly southerly direction into Lake Constance, thereby crossing the Rhine into the North Sea, which is further north of the headwaters of springing Kehlbach dehydrated in mostly northern direction over the back river Andelsbach and Ablach into the Danube and thus in the Black Sea.
Comments
- Rhine river system
- River in Europe
- River in Baden- Württemberg
- Waters in the district of Sigmaringen
- Waters in the Lake District