Kinzig (Main)

Kinzig in the Bulau in Hanau

Mouth in Hanau

The Kinzig is a 86 km long river in Hesse, which rises in Sterbfritz, the Main- Kinzig-Kreis flows and flows in Hanau in the Main. Was first documented in Kinzig the 815 as " Chinzicha ".

Geography

Kinzig source

The Kinzig source is located at about 400 m above sea level. NN, near a farm south of ethnic Sterbfritz, a district of Sinntal. It is a small, ducted in sandstones source that is provided with a drain pipe. The Kinzig source was renovated in 2011. The source mount was replaced, leveled the area and planted new trees. The there Springing source stream flows a few meters to the northwest, and joins with a longer Quellast.

Course

From the source of the Kinzig takes northwestern running and forms to Schlüchtern the boundary between the Rhön Nature Reserve and the Hessischer Spessart Nature Park. West of Schlüchtern the Kinzig flows in a southwesterly direction and is bordered to the north by the Vogelsberg from Spessart in the south. Between Steinau and Ahl is the Kinzig reservoir. In the lower river area, the Kinzig can also be used by canoeists. Shortly before Hanau flows through the Kinzig the so-called Bulau. This forest area was formerly used by the U.S. Army as a training area and is therefore still very natural. At high tide the Waldaue runs through many ditches quickly with water full, so sprawling meadows of wild garlic can be found in the spring. The river empties after about 82 km in Hanau at about 100 m above sea level. NN in the Main. There you can look like from a balcony to the castle Philippsruhe or the Main River harbor. The viewing platform is composed of two nested terrace decks are connected by a steel wall.

Places along the Kinzig

( in flow direction)

• Sterbfritz (source)
• Sannerz
• Vollmerz
• Herolz
• Schlüchtern
• Niederzell
• Steinau
• Ahl
• Salmuenster
• Neudorf
• Waechtersbach
• Wirtheim
• Gelnhausen
• Loveless
• Rothenbergen
• Langenselbold
• Erlensee
• Niederrodenbach
• Hanau ( confluence with the Main)

Inflows

The catchment area of the Kinzig is 1058 square kilometers.

• The stones stream that Ulmbach, the salt, the Bracht, the Orb, the Bieber, the Birkigsbach that Gruendau, the pool and the event stream.

A more extensive list, which also includes small tributaries, can be found in the list of running water in the river system Kinzig ( Main).

History

The river had in Roman times an importance as a transportation route, such as the development of several forts on the lower reaches occupied. The transition of the limes over the Kinzig in Erlensee - Rückingen was secured by the castle Rückingen. Since the Romans preferred heavy loads with smaller vessels or even rafts transported by towing, seems to have been turned into Rückingen south of the fort, a significant part of the building material and supplies for the eastern Wetterau line. In close proximity to the river mouth there was the castle town boiler, one of the largest known Kastellbauten at the Limes, but that has probably existed for only a short time. It was replaced by the fort Salis mountain, which was located nearby on a slight elevation above the Kinzig and the mouth of Salis Bach.

In the Middle Ages the Kinzig came a certain importance in securing the country by castles to be mentioned here is especially the Palatinate Gelnhausen, which was encircled by the Kinzig. Probably also in the time of Frederick Barbarossa fall another castle -ups this time in the region, on the Kinzig the City Palace Hanau and the water castle in Rückingen, the 1234 and 1248 first mentioned, however, are likely to have existed a little longer. 1405, King Ruprecht of the Palatinate destroy the water castle in Rückingen because of attacks on merchants along with several other castles in the region.

For navigation on the Kinzig in the Middle Ages there is particularly strong evidence from Gelnhausen. In addition to the Schiffertor which probably belongs to the earliest city system in 1170, is the mention of a Seamen guild and ship order, which did not exist in the 16th century, but was then abandoned because of the complex of mills or silting of the river. However, it was a pure Talschiffahrt what the deal made ​​unprofitable in the long run.

To the castle between the Kinzig poor in the city of Hanau Hanau, residence of the Lords and Counts of Hanau developed. Before its confluence with the Main Kinzig which closes in an arc to the north west, the city, which has favored the system of polygonal fortifications of the old and new in modern times. After the abolishment of the fortifications in 1806, the most passing through the city moats and Kinzig arms were filled. Remains and is a Kinzigarm flowing through the Hanauer castle garden.

1601/ 02 there were once common aspirations of Isenburg Count Wolfgang Ernst Ysenburg and Büdingen and Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau to navigability of the Kinzig by system of weirs and locks. The Ysenburger hoped for revenue by a water tariff and the possibility of removal of wood from the forest Büdinger by water. Philipp Ludwig von Hanau was interested in improving the transport links to its 1597 resulting Neustadt Hanau, where he had settled Calvinist religious refugees from the Spanish Netherlands and France. The project failed because of the resistance of the city of Frankfurt and Kurmainz who intervened with Emperor Rudolf II.

On 30 and October 31, 1813 took place just north of the Kinzig the Battle of Hanau instead. A memorial stone at the Kinzigbrücke west of Hanau suburb reminiscent of the wounding of the Bavarian General Carl Philipp von Wrede.

Traffic

The Kinzig valley between the mountains of the Vogelsberg and Spessart is since the Middle Ages an important transport link for both the east-west as well have been the north-south traffic, as its nickname of Steinau states. Her was a part of the Via Regia, or the High Street of Mainz, Frankfurt am Main to Leipzig and Breslau. As a modern road connection crosses the Autobahn 66, the Kinzig valley, the former federal highway 40 has replaced. For rail transport from Frankfurt to Fulda there is the Kinzig Valley Railway (Hessen).

Gallery

The level at the Kinzig

" Kinzig bridge ", a wooden bridge over the Kinzig in the Bulau in Hanau

One of the trenches with lady's - population

Film

• Picture book Germany: Kinzig - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart ( CR ). A film by Juliane Hipp, accessed at Internet Archive on June 17, 2009 Date of Documentation, 45 minutes Production:. Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast date Sunday, May 25, 2008 in the First