Solmsbach

Level Bonbaden

AEo: 112.491 km ²

The Solms Bach im Taunus is a 24.6 km long, left-sided and southern tributary of the Lahn River in the district of Gießen and the Lahn- Dill-Kreis in Hesse. Its catchment area is about 112.5 km ².

He became the patron saint of Count Solms and princely family, whose ancestral castle once stood in Burgsolms, some villages on the river and its valley by following Solms Valley Railway.

Course

The Solms creek rises in the Eastern Hintertaunus. Its source is in Taunus Nature Park on the southern outskirts of Espa, in the municipality of Langgoens, at around 430 meters above sea level. NN.

Initially, the Solms creek flows westward to Weiperfelden and then in a northwesterly direction through Brandoberndorf, past Kröffelbach and by force Solms; they are all districts of the municipality Waldsolms. This lead a left - and right-sided multiple streams, such as the Eichelsbach at Weiperfelden and Aubach in Brandoberndorf.

Then the Solms creek flows towards the north- north-west, where he Niederquembach, a district of Schöffengrund, and Neukirchen, a district of Braunfels, each happening in the West. In Braunfelser district Bonbaden the stream is fed by the Hainbach, which rises at the near -country village. Here it forms the western boundary of the Wetzlar Hintertaunus.

North of Bonbaden it passes through the Solmser Oberdorf, only to culminate after flowing through the hamlet of Solms Solms Castle at about 142 m altitude in the Rhein- Lahn inflow.