Burraubach

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The Burraubach is a 6.1 km long left tributary of the throat stream crossed Andelsbach and Ablach its water flows into the Danube. Thus the Burraubach belongs to the Danube river system.

Geography

The creek originates southwest of forest at 669 meters above sea level and flows first in a northerly direction, and then to pivot directly on the Walder residential community to the west. This flow direction he holds up to his mouth to 618 feet in the Kehlbach, northeast of the hamlet Litzelbach at.

History

After about two kilometers of the Burraubach was dammed centuries ago, this reservoir served the monastery forest as a fishing pond and still exists today.

After another two kilometers of the river the castle stables of the castle Burrach, the ancestral home of the Lords of Reischach happens. Probably the Burraubach was named in accordance with this already dialed by the year 1241 the castle. Immediately south of the fortified settlement is still a Burraumühle called hamlet, in the records of the monastery forest is mentioned as holding the place Burrau.

• River system Ablach
• River in Europe
• River in Baden- Württemberg
• Waters in the district of Sigmaringen