Erle (river)

Alder in Eger

The Alder is 14.2 km, about Vesser and Breitenbach 15.3 km long right tributary of the Nahe in the southern Thuringian Forest ( Hildburghausen, Thuringia).

Course

It rises 784 meters above sea level near the crossroads. They first flows to the southwest, later a southerly direction where it feeds the nearly one kilometer long dam Erletor after about three kilometers. As the first place two kilometers south Hirschbachwinkel lies in the valley of alder. Here also hit the country road 3247 and the disused railway Friedberg of the valley, which they follow from now on. Other places are Eger and St. Kilian, where the Breitenbach, together with the recently accrued Vesser from the left opens into the alder. All the villages along the alder belong politically to the greater community of St. Kilian. On their next and final two kilometers, the alder flows through the western part of the city Schleusingen, where they eventually Jews On the basis of the right in the Near opens below the glass work Friedrichswerk in the hallway.