Lauer (river)

Lauer source Storchenbrünnle

The wait is a small river in Lower Franconia with a good 30 km in length. She is the namesake for the Lauertal and rises in Oberlauringen.

Name

The name is derived from Germanic Lauer hlūra, which means the clear. The waters were the places Oberlauringen, Stadtlauringen, Poppenlauer, Burglauer and Niederlauer their names.

Geography

Course

The source also called Storchenbrünnle, due to the shown on the stone at the source stork. This place, so says the legend, young couples should assist in fertility. In the valley are the towns of Rothenhausen, Maßbach, Poppenlauer, Brno, Althausen and Muennerstadt. The Lauer opens in Niederlauer in the Franconian Saale. The section through Lauertal is an important as part of the low- profile remote cycle path between the Rhön and the Hassbergen. Worth seeing especially the many mills that are still largely practiced today.

Inflows

The tributaries of the Lauer are:

  • Leinach (left) in Oberlauringen
  • Bruchgraben (right) in Stadtlauringen
  • Geissler ( left) at Stadtlauringen
  • Measure ( Maßbach ) (left) in Maßbach
  • Ransbach (right) at Poppenlauer
  • Central Graben (right) in Poppenlauer
  • Wannigsbach (right) at Brno
  • Talwasser (left) in Muennerstadt
  • Large Holbachsgraben ( left) at Burglauer
  • Reichenbach ( left) at Burglauer
  • Lauerbach trench ( left) at Burglauer
  • Erbiggraben (right) at Niederlauer

River system Lauer

See list of running water in the river system Lauer

Fauna

In the coming Lauer brook trout, stone loach, minnow, perch, gudgeon, dace, pike, carp, bullhead, rainbow trout, roach, eel, chub, tench and three-spined stickleback, and. in some tributaries of the stone crayfish before.

Bavaria Germanic languages Ransbach (Lauer) Common dace Common roach European chub
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