Steinebach (Kinzig)

The Steinau Bach in Steinau

The Steinau Bach ( rear left) opens into the Kinzig (from back right to front)

The stones Bach ( also Steinau Bach or Steineaubach called ) is a good 23 km long right tributary of the Kinzig and northeasterly in Hesse.

Geography

Course

The stones stream originates northwest of the former castle Naxburg north of Freiensteinau. His run is initially in a southerly direction. North of Freiensteinau proposes the creek a small arch in the north to accrue thereafter to Freiensteinau - Reinhard in an easterly direction. He now runs a short distance to the southeast and then goes to the south, its main flow direction, which it retains to the achievement of Steinau. It flows past the road - Behind Steinau on the western edge of the village Steinau. Southeast of Steinau - Uerzell it flows from the right side of the Uerzeller water and Schlüchtern - Kressbach, the same stream from the left side to. South of Kressbach it flows a greater distance through a wooded nature reserve. Shortly after passing under the A66 the stream reaches the outskirts of Steinau. He goes there its course towards the southwest and empties finally north of the Bahnhofstrasse in the Kinzig.

Inflows

• Pebble water ( right)
• Weihrichwasser (right)
• Rossbach (left)
• Schopp water ( left)
• Elkerswasser (left)
• Ürzeller water ( Steinau Bach, name for the middle reaches ) (right ), 4.5 km by 7.9 km Stone Abach Steinbach (also stone Abach left source Bach, also regarded as the name of upper reaches ), 3.4 km
• Rötlingsbach (right source Bach), 1.8 km Wöllbach (right), 2.8 km