Geiselbach (river)

The Geiselbach in Teufelsgrund

A source stream, above Geiselbach

The Geiselbach (front) joins the Bald

The Geiselbach is a 5.2 km long right tributary of the Kahl in the district of Aschaffenburg and in the Main- Kinzig district, in the Spessart. The source is located above the small Bavarian town of Geiselbach to about 300 m above sea level. NN.

Name

Takes its name from the Old High German word Geiselbach " Geisila " which means tail. Hence the statement: Bach where you cut rods. In 1496 he came to the female form before the Geiselbach. The brook gave the place its name Geiselbach.

Course

The Geiselbach arises above the village Geiselbach by the confluence of several small streams swelling. After about 3 km, it reaches the running of the Hessian border Teufelsgrund. There opens its largest tributary, the Omersbach. Meanwhile, water dined earlier in the Teufelsmühle Teufelsgrund. In particularly dry months, when the water level of Omersbaches was too low, caused by an artificial moat that the water from about 10 m deep flowing Geiselbach operated the mill. In some maps of Omersbach is also listed under the name Falkenbach.

Today, from the Devil's Mill, only the foundations exist. Approximately 20 meters from the ruins is a log house, which is called by the locals as well as Devil's Mill. In the course of Geiselbach serves as a water supply of many old fish pond. In the old ruin Hüttelngesäß, which now belongs to free court, he passes under the state road 2305th On the Hesse and Bavaria border near Lower Steinbach ( Bavaria ) opens the Geiselbach in the Kahl.

Numerous small streams, such as the springing on the border Hessel Born, whose name is derived from the state of Hesse, and some marshlands provide the Geiselbach additionally with water so that it is the largest tributary of the Kahl next Sommerkahl, Reichenbach and Westerbach.

Inflows

• Bach from the monstrous reason (left)
• Omersbach (left)
• Bach from the Hessel Born ( left)