Horloff

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Name

The name derives from Horloff althd. with the meaning horawin = swampy ago.

Geography

Course

The river rises north of Schotten in the Vogelsberg district where located above idols and Betzenrod gliding field in a forest. After a longer path through the Vogelsberg the Horloff happens after a cottage colony as the first place the Laubach district Gonterskirchen. Then it flows at the Friedrich hut and heads towards Ruppertsburg where, about 25 km above the mouth, the only Level Station of Horloff is. Next the Horloff flows toward Wetterau. She draws on a large arc around the Borgelberg and then passes Villingen, Hungen and Trai - Horloff. Between Hungen and Trai - Horloff in the district court Graß the Horloff received in the 1950s, a new bed, so that the wells are not endangered in the waterworks Inheiden.

Between Hungen and basic Schwalheim the Horloff crosses the nature reserve " cow pasture ." Here formerly brown coal was mined, were left to the upper and lower Knappensee where the Horloff past some east. From basic Schwalheim runs parallel to the railway line Horloff Friedberg- Nidda, by the river got its name " Horlofftalbahn ". From Echzell runs parallel to the Horloff " Horloff - Flutgraben " which runs at some distance by the Bingenheimer Ried and Horloff floodplain. After the railway line has left the Horloff at Reichelsheim ( Wetterau ) again, this continues to flow in the direction Florstadt and passes it to the airfield Reichelsheim, whose runways are separated from the apron through the Horloff and connected by two bridges.

500 meters after the airfield of Flutgraben rejoins the Horloff, which opens into the Nidda again after another 400 m.

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the Horloff include ( downriver considered, kilometer data from estuary to source):

River system Horloff

See list of running water in the river system Horloff

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