Tonndorfbach

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The Tonndorfbach is about twelve kilometers long tributary of the River Ilm in Weimar country in Central Thuringia.

The Tonndorfbach drains the western part of the Tannrodaer Forest Lands and rises on the eastern edge of the Velcro Bacher hamlet Schellroda at Erfurt.

Southeast of Velcro Bach formed the Tonndorfbach an approximately 100 -meter-deep valley between the 470 meter high Eichberg in the west and 483 meters high Quingerberg in the east. This water gap was also used by the ancient trade route from Erfurt to Bohemia. Today in this area, the road L 1052 runs after crane field.

At the end of the valley lies Nauen village, continue in a southeasterly direction follows the creek Tonndorf. Here the Munich reason the Tonndorfbach flows in the following, before he left opens in Munich in the Ilm begins.

The name origin is not clear. The creek is, however, named after the carrying Tonndorf.