Untere Argen

Lower Argen between cheeks and office cell

The Lower Argen is a roughly 55 -mile river in Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg in southern Germany.

The Lower Argen arises from the confluence of the Börlasbachs and Stixnerbachs in about 850 m above sea level. NN of Missen in the Bavarian- Swabian district of Upper Allgaeu, from where it flows first in a northerly direction to Isny ​​at the western entrance. Shortly before the district Großholzleute accepts the Lower Argen on the right coming from Wengen wicked one, and crosses the border between Bavaria and Württemberg. In Isny the Lower Argen then changes the direction to the northwest and at Waltershofen to the southwest. At the level of Wangen district Neuravensburg, about one kilometer north-west of the great viaduct Obere Argen A 96, it flows together with the Upper Argen and forms for about 15 km, the evil one, which flows into the lake between Kressbronn and Langenargen.

Directly on the Lower Argen be found not far from Isny on a ledge just a few dozen meters above the water level, the former site of the Roman cavalry fort Vemania. It was part of the Danube -Iller -Rhine- Limes and strategically divided the distance from Bregenz to Kempten. For the numerous individual systems were to improve the function like waters, as in this case, the evil one, included. A bottleneck in the river in small hamlet Mayrhofen, not far from the castle and now provided with a rather simple, unassuming street bridge, speaks the same language.