Kerkerbach

The Kerkerbach between Lahr and Heckholzhausen

The Kerkerbach is right-sided, 20.7 km long tributary of the Lahn in Limburg- Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Its catchment area is 70.23 km ².

Name

The name of the dungeon brook is probably derived from the sources in the hallway Lahr " Old Cellar " from, the former village of Upper Lahr.

There is the origin of the name but also other more far-reaching derivatives. So Willi Schmittel and John Laubach explained in an article about the Finster mill at Schupbach the origin of the stream name as follows:

" Kerkerbach means the waters and the valley has the appropriate name. But prison comes from the Celtic linguistic heritage, meaning " dark ", " wet ", " boggy ". And also in Middle High German can certainly still produce a linguistic association. Here the term " dark " ( vinestre ) was still used for jail or prison. "

Christian Daniel Vogel called for the stream, the name " Hüttenbach " and "Window Bach".

Course

The Kerkerbach rises in the southern Oberwesterwald from multiple sources at Fussingen and Lahr. The first major tributary is the Hintermeilinger floos flowing in the hammer mill in the Kerkerbach. Between hammer mill and Heckholzhausen the creek flows through a narrow cut. Its lower reaches south Heckholzhausen at Schupbach, Eschenau, Mayrhofen, Steeden forms the natural border between the fertile Limburger Becken and the plateaus of Weilburg Lahn Valley area. Accordingly, here the flat, accompanied by open fields west of the valley slopes of the steep, sometimes even rocky and forested eastern side of the valley differ. The Kerkerbach opens at the same Runkeler commercial area in the River Lahn.

Inflows

• Hintermeilinger raft (right), 4.1 km
• Allendorf Bach ( left), 4.5 km
• Gaudernbach (left), 4.2 km
• Brandbachstrasse (right), 5.1 km

Kerkerbach web

The Kerkerbach was also the 35 km long railway Kerkerbach the name. This historic railway was built from 1884 to 1888. They linked the city Menger churches, Waldersbach, Fussingen, Lahr, Hintermeilingen, Heckholzhausen, Schupbach, Christian cabin, Eschenau, Mayrhofen, gunwale and Kerkerbach with the station Kerkerbach the Kerkerbach Bahn AG and the still existing station of the Deutsche Bahn on the Lahn valley distance casting -Koblenz. The railway line was mainly used for the transport of clay, lignite, iron ore and marble. The importance for the transport of people was low. Due to the unprofitability Kerkerbach train was reinstated. Most of the route was decommissioned in 1960 and the tracks dismantled.

Today, the railway embankment is a hiking path for pedestrians and cyclists.