Aal (Kocher)

The eel around 150 meters before it flows into the boiler

The eel is a small river in the city of Aalen in Baden- Württemberg in Germany. It originates in the Dürr meadows next to the road bridge of 3326 K at the west end of Garden Road by the confluence of the left and right Rombach Sauerbach. From here, the eel flows in an easterly, then in north-east direction and flows 1.7 km long barrel on the left side when Reichstädter market in the cooker.

For the Romans, the eel was the decisive factor, just north of which the fort Aalen erect, her greatest cavalry fort north of the Alps. They took the river every day up to 30,000 liters of water to its roughly 1,000 horses.

The eel was renatured at the confluence of the two headwaters Rombach and Sauerbach for around 5 million Euro and the newly constructed flood retention basins Dürr meadows was on 10 September 2010 there was inaugurated.

Inflows

• Heuchelbach, right near the torch Bridge Road, 1.5 km