Tiefenbach (Wisper)

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The Tiefenbach is a right tributary of the Wisper. He begins his career as Grenzbach between the district Weisel and the cross forest in the east, a exclave the district Dörscheid. It flows in a north-south direction through a deeply carved wooded Taunustal, is in the Sauer valley as the only resort. In this valley slate mining was carried out in several mines, such as in the pit Kreuzberg Wilhelm Berg. Above the forest, the valley is flanked on the west by Weisel and to the east of Ransel. About four kilometers from the Rhine on the outskirts of Lorch opens the Tiefenbach in the Wisper.

In the course of the stream there are several castles, including the ruins of Waldeck and Sauer Castle, which used to secure the running since the Middle Ages here boundary between the Rheingau and the Palatinate.