Auer (Odenwald)

The Auer source at Felsberg

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The Auer Mühlbach and also Ziegelbach called springs on the western edge of the rocky hill in the Hessian Odenwald between Balkhausen and Bensheim - high cities.

Millstream

The Auer is amplified in its course by ten further inflows and flows through the middle of the district of Bensheim high cities, the former Marmoritwerk and the Goethebrunnen past by the Muehltal direction Bensheim -Auerbach. In Mill Valley there were formerly seven mills were powered by water from the Auer. Therefore, the stream, in the vernacular, also called Mühlbach. The village mill in the village is now a wine bar, the satchel Berger mill is now the location of the nursing home meadow, the Gagel mill studio and residence of a resident in Auerbach artist who Kadels, Wiemers, Mößingers and young mill are used as residences.

North to the borders of Mill Valley Auersberg with the Auerbach Castle - an old castle ruins - and south of the State Park Prince camp.

Auerbach

In Bensheim -Auerbach district Auer is divided into an underground, verdolten and an above-ground, open creek. The recurring floods and floods of Bachgassse resulted in the eighties of the 20th century to that is passed through structural measures, most of the Auer in a Verdolung. According to the model of the Freiburg Baechle always a constant part of the Auer flows openly through the brook street, right by the old village of Auerbach, in numerous half-timbered houses over the direction of federal highway 3 ( Darmstadt road).

Ziegelbach

After the merging of the two streams, the Auer crosses under the highway underground 3 and flows toward the open Auerbach railway station to. Since 1850 a brickworks, also porcelain factory was here, she was called in this part also Ziegelbach.

After passing under the railway line Darmstadt -Heidelberg it opens after about 1 km in the coming of Bensheim, known as Lauter previously Winkelbach flowing in Gernsheim into the Rhine.

The total length of Auer from the source to the estuary is 6.7 km.