Roth (Danube)

Course of Roth

The Roth is an approximately 52 km long, south or right tributary of the Danube in Bavaria, Germany.

The Roth flows between parallel northbound running Danube tributaries Iller in the west and Günz or beavers in the east. The river there are a total of 21 water mills, most of which are shut down.

Name interpretation

The name comes from the reddish coloration Roth of the river, which comes by the relatively high iron content of the water about. Your source area, as the name suggests iron castle is rich in iron.

Course

The Roth rises in Otter Forest, a wooded area north of Iron Castle (Memmingen ). Then it flows almost invariably north. She crosses the wetlands between the Kellmünzer and the monastery Beurer forest and the top Hauser Ried west of book. In the top Hauser Ried it joins the Little Roth ( also called western red ) that drains along with many moats of the wetlands. Then it continues on its path towards white horn and separates again recently in a small and a large Roth. Further north, the Roth leads finally, after crossing the floodplain forest in Nersingen into the Danube.

Others

At the time of the Celts, the iron ore is mined was smelted in Roth Valley. Several slag finds in the corridors of Osterberg, Obenhausen, Emershofen and Attenhofen are detected.

Towns

One of the towns on the Roth include:

  • Obenhausen (Book)
  • White Horn
  • Oberpfaffenhofen in Roth
  • Nersingen
Biber (Danube) Buch, Swabia Boos, Bavaria Unterroth
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