Isen (river)

The Isen in Villages

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The Isen is a left tributary of the Inn River in the southeast of Upper Bavaria with a length of approximately 76 kilometers. According to her the landscape Isengau region, as well as the Lower / Upper Isen- Sempt Hill Country is named.

Name

Your name has the Isen from the Indo-European word ice, " move hard and fast " meaning. The name has been transferred to the monastery and the market town of Isen Isen.

Course

The Isen rises near lakes ( Maitenbeth municipality, county Mühldorf ) and characterizes the largely unspoiled landscape of Old Bavaria: the Isental.

In the district Mühldorf came to light, the Isenwasser flows first in the district of Erding communities Isen, Lengdorf and Villages, and then again to flow through the county Mühldorf ( Schwindegg, Ampfing, Mette Home, Mühldorf and Erharting ). Finally, it opens in Altötting (municipality Winhöring ) on the northern Innufer Neuöttings into the Inn.

The valley can be ( approximately ) divided as follows:

• The Lower Valley of Worth to the mouth
• The Middle Valley of Esterndorf / head to Castle Wörth
• The Upper Valley of ester Village / Castle head to the source

Others

The discharge point into the Inn was in the nineteenth century moved further from the construction of the railway line railway line Munich - Mühldorf - Simbach to west between the hamlets of Kronberg and Unterau in the community Winhöring. The original mouth was previously located at the level of the village Kager. Even today, some swampy places in fields and meadows back to the earlier run of the Isen.

The Isental its side valleys was once rich in castles (eg head castle, Zeilhofen, Steeg, Hofgiebing ), of which only a few, such as Castle Rain or Schwindegg, have been preserved. (→ List of castles, palaces and noble seats in Isental and vicinity)

The Isental with tributaries is a conservation area, which is threatened by the construction of the federal highway 94.

The water quality of the Isen is charged as indicated moderate to critical. Tributaries include Lappach, Goldach, Geislbach, Seebach, Eibacher Bach, Kaltenbach and Kagnbach.