Grümpen (river)

Grümpen at Selsendorf

The Grümpen is a 15 km long left tributary of the Itz in the district of Sonneberg ( Thuringia).

Course

The Grümpen arises with multiple source streams between the towns Siegmundsburg and Steinheid in the Thuringian Slate Mountains near the Rennsteig hiking on the slopes of the mountains drought spruce and Kieferle. After the confluence of its headwaters it flows through the Neumannsgrund, which merges into the Theuerer reason for the inflow of the left (east ) Steinbach. Both form a cramp-like valley in the southwest, which they share with the road of Steinheid after Schalkau.

The valley opens near the place Theuern. Here was washed earlier in the Grümpen gold. She was considered one of the gold -rich rivers in Germany, what today reminds the Gold Museum Theuern.

South of Theuern flows through the Grümpen the hilly and partly wooded Sonneberger hinterland and the places Rauenstein, Grümpen and Selsendorf before it joins Almerswind in the Itz.

Inflows

• Andrufgraben (left)
• Bear Creek (right)
• Langenbach (left)
• Steinbach (left)
• Rußbach (left)