Weihung

The dedication is a 30 km long, south or right tributary of the Danube in the east of Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ). The consecration flows west and approximately parallel to the running northbound Iller, which it approaches strongly in the last kilometers, and in which they also einmündete until the transfer of its lowest portion 2002/2003.

Course

The dedication rises south of Wain in the district of Biberach. Nearest village after Wain 's dedication cell, follow it - is now in the Alb -Donau-Kreis - the places Schnürpflingen, Staig with Altheim whether consecration, Illerkirchberg and the southern Ulm district Wiblingen they near the monastery Wiblingen happened ( with the Wiblinger Basilica ).

North of Wiblingen flowed through the consecration to 2002, which is important for the Ulmer water supply drinking red wall area, only to end in the Iller, a few hundred meters from its mouth into the Danube. The mouth portion of the consecration of the drinking water protection area routed out to avoid the risk of groundwater contamination in flood management, because the consecration is partially exposed to agricultural use along its course - 2002/2003, however, was - according to vorausgegangenem perennial conflict between representatives of nature conservation and water protection. About a newly created bed opens the dedication since then, after passing under a parallel to the Danube Canal, north of Wiblingen directly into the Danube. The resulting possible lowering of ground water in the area of ​​Iller floodplain forest to counteract compensatory measures, such as in low-rainfall periods feeding her through a specially created water inflow from the Danube Canal.