Aar (Lahn)

Aar about 250 meters south of its source

Name

The waters Aar name is in German Central Europe several times. Examples are also to the river system of the Lahn belonging Aar at Herborn, which opens into the Rhine or the Ahr River Aare in Switzerland. The vordeutsche Aar word means " fast flowing water", figuratively " small river in the central mountain region ", and is obtained mainly in southern Germany in many place names ending in- ach.

Geography

Course

The Aar rises in the Taunus Hesse on the south side of the Limes, 500 meters from the remains of the Roman fort Zugmantel and the chickens road (B 417) at Taunussteiner district Orlen. They first flows south and then in a wide valley floor through the districts of Neuhof, labor, Hahn and Bleidenstadt to the southwest. Behind Bleidenstadt the valley narrows. Here the eagle reaches its southernmost point and then turns to the northwest. At the height of Bad Schwalbach she takes the only significant left tributary to, the current flowing through the city nettle creek, and then reaches the district Adolfseck with the eponymous castle ruins. Here she is at the end of an artificial Mäanderhals - By engraving the largest waterfall in the Taunus (by volume ), but most of the water is first derived for energy. Right after the limit the Aar crosses the fortlet Adolfseck. Deep beneath Burg Hohenstein it passes the same place and is above Michel Bach for a few kilometers to the border river to Rhineland- Palatinate. Across the border in the valley Sander mill, a rendering plant. In Aarbergen the river first touches the district Michel Bach, then at chain Bach Michel Hütte and takes here with the Aubach ( historical name: Strinzbach ), the strongest and longest with 15 km of creek on which rises very near the Aar - source only on the north side of the limes. Then the valley leads to Hausen über Aar and the last Hessian town Rückershausen. North of the border sets the Aar to the mouth come back around 14 km in Rhineland- Palatinate. She touched in the municipality Hahnstätten the places Schiesheim, Customs House, Hahnstätten with a large lime plant, Upper iron, low iron and Flacht. With the villages of wooden home and Freiendiez it reaches the municipality Diez and empties into the local situation of the city Diez in the Lahn.

Tributaries

  • Wurzelbach (left), 1.2 km
  • Hasselbach (right), 1.2 km
  • Schwarzenbach ( left), 4.2 km
  • Orlen Bach ( right), 4.1 km
  • Eschbach (left), 1.1 km
  • Wingsbach (right), 5.0 km
  • Kotzebach (right), 3.3 km
  • Herbach (right), 3.3 km
  • Hett Hainer Bach ( left), 0.8 km
  • Busebach (left)
  • Nesselbach (left), 4.8 km
  • Pohl Bach ( right), 1.5 km
  • Kohlbach (left), 2.1 km
  • Kohlgraben (right), 0.5 km
  • Wide Hardter Bach ( right), 7.2 km
  • Lahnbach (left), 4.8 km
  • Hirschbachwinkel (right), 1.5 km
  • Michel Bach ( right), 5.0 km
  • Aubach (right), 15.1 km
  • Turn Bach ( left), 1.5 km
  • Matt Bach ( left), 2.7 km
  • Hahn Erbach (right), 2.3 km
  • Schliembach (Bach from the brick cottage) (left), 2.3 km
  • Palm Bach ( right), 9.4 km
  • Hohle Fels Bach ( left), 3.6 km
  • Merschelbach (left), 3.5 km
  • Kaltenbach (right), 6.4 km
  • Welsbach (left)
  • Herbach ( Mühlbach ) (right), 6.4 km
  • Haselbach (left), 3.0 km
  • Lohr Bach ( right), 1.7 km
  • Hohlbach (left), 2.9 km
  • Hinterbach (right)
  • Weibitzbach (left), 2.7 km

Geomorphology

  • Talentstehung

The narrow valley of the Aar was like that of the Middle Rhine region during the last 700,000 years as a result of climatic, tectonic and eustatischer changes in Central Europe. This was by means of several, at various points nachweisebarer river terrace levels and with the loess deposited thereon be detected. < / Ref >.

  • Alluvial sediments

At the upper reaches and the upper middle reaches of the Aar between labor and Michel Bach exclusively Auelehme are detectable, which were deposited only since the High Middle Ages. They are primarily the result of the first large-scale deforestation and the introduction of agriculture in the southwestern Untertaunus. At the lower middle reaches and the lower reaches of the Aar older Auenlehme have been proven. There, at the latest played since the modern era, the influence of historic mining in the area customs house and the high charcoal consumption of Michel Bacherhütte a not insignificant role in the formation of alluvial fans due to increased soil erosion.

Traffic Aartal

The Aartal is particularly the section of Adolfseck by Michel Bach tight gorge-like part, cut in the Taunus, this tortuous, densely wooded and sparsely populated and thus interesting for tourists. By Aartal lead the Aarstraße mentioned herein Federal Highway 54 and classified as a single-track branch line Aartalbahn; both of which result from Wiesbaden coming over cock and Diez to Limburg an der Lahn. Although the passenger and freight traffic on the Aartalbahn has been set since 1983, step by step, the route is used by tourists but since then with track cars and the Nassau Tourist train. For cyclists there is the Aartal bike path that runs almost entirely of Diez to Taunusstein Hahn on the edge of the floodplain of the river.

Events

In Aartal there is in running two events that affect the entire Aartal and organized transnationally in Hesse and Rhineland- Palatinate.

  • Driving to the Aar

As part of the annual major event under the name of driving to the Aar Aar from Diez to Bleidenstadt on a Sunday or public holiday in late May is blocked to motor traffic and is the only non-motorized traffic.

  • Aartal Erlebnistag

This event takes place annually on October 3, the day of German Unity, instead. The focus is guided archaeological, geographical and forest walks as well as individual parties with an autumnal theme.

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