Paar

The couple between Kissing and Ottmaring

The pair breakdown shortly before Ottmaring

The about 134 km long pair is a right tributary of the Danube River ( Bavaria, Germany ).

River

The river rises in a Endmoränengürtel north of Lake Ammersee near the castle Cold Mountain and then flows over Walleshausen after Egling and reaches Mering Lechfeld.

However, the pair does not lead to the Lech, but leaves at Friedberg- Ottmaring the Lech valley with a bend to the northeast. This pair breakdown is caused by headward erosion. Until about 10,000 years ago was the Friedberger Ach the lower reaches of the pair, and today's lower pair had their source in Ottmaring (see also Flussanzapfung ).

After breakthrough, the pair continues through the hill country between the Danube and Isar. In Dasing it crosses under the A 8 The two largest cities in their further course are Aichach and Schrobenhausen. In Reichertshofen the pair enters the Ingolstadt basin where they pass under the A 9 at Manching and shortly thereafter reached the floodplain forests of the Danube.

The pair originally flowed across from Großmehring near Vohburg into the Danube. Regulations, however, have changed this original mouth. The pair is out of flood protection reasons parallel to the Danube, passing the Irsching and opens only when Vohburg, about 6 km below the original mouth of the Danube.

River Name

The river name derives probably from an Indo-European word that means something like " well up ". The name researcher Albrecht Greule has also been hypothesized, the name so can be derived from the desolate Keltenoppidium Manching, the would have given the urbajuwarischen settlers. Based on the meanings of vorbairischen word * barre ( empty area or fenced, paved area ) and by the then state of the settlement (of a visible today Wall Surrounded, settlement blank area ) assumes Greule, had the early Bavarians the square of the settlement " Barre ", and this name was then transferred to the entire river pair because Manching is located at the mouth of the old couple. It would also be conceivable but also a third Etymology: The name could come from the Frankish administration. In the Black Forest, there was in the early medieval authorities, " Baaren " were called and have been made to control the tax revenue in the region. It emerged after the demise of the independent Duchy of Alemannia in the Frankish period counties. It would be conceivable that the various other places named " Baar " or " pair ", of which there are in Upper Bavaria and Bavarian Swabia (eg pair in Aichach and Baar at Rain) as well as in Switzerland and in France ( Bar -Le - Duc) some out there that represent administrative centers of the early middle Ages. In the case of pair fits to the fact that the Reichert Hofener local historian Gerhard Krahn has reconstructed a network of roads from the Roman or even pre-Roman times that the pair transition of Baar - runs to a junction together - the last before the confluence of the pair into the Danube. Even ere the name had been given to a major settlement in the mouth of the river on the entire river so again.

Inflows

The pair is fed under other springing from the north of Altomuenster Weilach which opens into Schrobenhausen, as well as from the opening into Aichach Ecknach, the Krebsbach, the Rein and some smaller rivers.

Traffic

In the valley of the pair run the Ammersee Railway Mering -Weilheim between Cold Mountain and Mering, the pair of roller coaster from Ingolstadt to Augsburg, a longer section of the national road 300 and the Paartalradweg, which is marked with a blue marker and a stylized serpentine river.

Literature and Film

Günter Meier Heath turned for Bayerischer Rundfunk the documentary " The pair of images of a river landscape ," Peter Solfrank the report " The running of the pair."