Kieferbach

Schematic Map of the course of Thierseer Ache / Pine Brook

The pine brook, in the upper reaches only Ache or Klaus Bach, also called in the middle reaches Thierseer Ache in the lower reaches Klaus Bach, is an approximately 24 km long, left or western tributary of the Inn in the Northern Limestone Alps in Austria and Germany.

Name interpretation

Klaus Bach and Klaus Bach comes from " klausen ", this used to be the transport of timber from the surrounding forests by the damming of the creek was settled, which is still partly visible in the Glemmtalschlucht. The seemingly grammatically correct spelling Thierseeer Ache is wrong.

Course

The river rises in the Tyrol as Klaus stream in the back boiler bottom of several small, sometimes dry lying streams of the north side of the Schönfeldjochs the origin Pass, flows as Thierseer Ache Thierseetal by the municipality Thiersee, past the cement plant quarry in Wachtl across the border to Bavaria. In the area of the state border to the mouth of the Gießenbach waters has both officially out names jaw Bach and Klaus Bach. After the left-side tributary of the casting stream the Wachtl Express Railway and the beast lake road to the river follow jointly by the Klausenbachtal in Kiefersfelden. Flows about halfway to the right Hechtseeabfluss. The river then flows as pine creek through the village and flows into the district of the mandible in the Inn.

The Thierseer Ache forms with the influent Glemmbach the boundary between the Bavarian Alps in the north and the Brandenberg Alps in the south.

Use

In the middle of Kiefersfelden is located on the right bank of a weir and subsequently a hydrodynamic screw.

Ecology

The passage of Thierseer Ache is predominantly natural or natural. It has Tyrolean area water quality class II ( 2005).