Fellach

The Fellach after the confluence of the headwaters

The Fellach or fella is a right tributary of the aura in Landkreis Main -Spessart Spessart in Bavaria. It arises from the confluence of the creek and Renger Brunner living Roder Bach on a meadow at Wohnrod.

Name

The name is Fellach Velt from the Middle High German word and the Old High German aha. It means " field " and "water". The explanation arises from the fact " a watercourse through fields ". The name Fella is a short form. Usually the same or similar-sounding place names were named after the waters that flow through them (compare place and river Aura Aura ). The names Fellach and skins, however, arose in parallel. Skins never had the word ah aha or in the name.

Geography

Headwaters

Renger Brunner Bach

The Renger Brunner creek rises in Rengersbrunn, a district of skins, next to the Sanctuary of Our Lady statue. From an open Brunnenstube bubbling the clear spring water. King Barbarossa once rested at this source. Since then she has the name Regis Born ( King's Well ). The name changed over the centuries in Rengersbrunn. The Renger Brunner Bach is good with 3 km of the extended source stream.

Residential Roder Bach

The source of about 1.3 km long living Roder creek located on the western edge of Wohnrod in a water protection area. Directly after the source, it was used for operating a sawmill. The newly designed center it flows at St. Kilian's Church on small artificial cascades. Near the Frick mill he unites with the lower water content Renger Brunner Bach to Fellach.

Course

From the confluence of the headwaters Fellach the northeast flowing fur. There it is passed through a masonry flume through the nucleus. On the eastern outskirts of the village, behind the sports fields it flows into the aura.

Source of living Roder creek

Mouth of the Fellach (left) in the aura (right)