Walluf (Rhine)

The Walluf in the center of Martinsthal in the Rheingau

The Walluf (also called " Walluf Bach", formerly " Waldaffa ") is a 13.7 km long right tributary of the Rhine in the Rheingau -Taunus-Kreis.

Course

It has its origins in the High Taunus above Bärstadt. It flows thence in an easterly direction by Wambach, then turns south and cuts, accompanied by high mountain flanks, between Schlangenbad and Georgenborn the Taunus main ridge. In Eltville - Martinsthal it reaches the Rheingau, then flows through the Wallufer district Oberwalluf and flows Niederwalluf into the Rhine. The river was the border between the Rheingau and the Königssondergau in the Middle Ages. The border was secured on the west bank over the centuries through the Rheingau Gebück.

Geography and transport

Even today, the Walluf has a limit function, in the natural spatial sense: Your deeply cut in the High Taunus Valley separates the Rheingau Mountains to the west from Wiesbaden Taunus ridge to the east. In Walluftal the highway runs 260 as one of the main roads through the Taunus between the Rhine and Lahn.