Wern

Lower Mill at Eußenheim

The Wern is about 63.5 km long right and eastern tributary to the Main in Bavaria ( Germany ).

Name

The names were written in the 8th century Werma and around the year 1015 Werina. It is the Indo-European root UER what water or rain means based was derived from an n suffix. This root is also included in the name of the river Wörnitz. The river name was transferred to the municipalities Niederwerrn and Werneck, as well as the places Oberwerrn and Wernfeld.

Geography

Wern source

The Wern springs on the territory of the municipality Poppenhausen north of the local part Pfersdorf. The Wern source pours an average of about one to two liters per second, but dried up completely in the summer. Right after the source discharges, the 6.3 km long Augraben (including linseed or Leimgraben ) on the right side in the Wern. This originates north of Pfändhausen in the community Dittelbrunn and was expanded in the 1930s as a drainage ditch. He is regarded as the upper reaches of the Wern because of its higher water flow and greater length.

Course

The Wern first flows in a southerly direction and thereby approaches in Schweinfurt up to about 2 km at the Main. Then she turns to the west and flows through the northern part of the main triangle. Having approached near Karlstadt- Stetten turn up to about 2 km to the Main, it also changes here their direction and flows north. In Gemünden - Wernfeld the Wern finally ends at an altitude of 153 m above sea level. NN in the Main.

At the headwaters of the Wern has little slope. The earlier tortuous course of the river was straightened to Arnstein there in the 1930s through the Reich Labour Service in most laborious manual work in order to gain additional agricultural land. That they now try to undo reasons of nature protection and protection against flooding.

Tributaries

Among the tributaries of Wern include ( downriver considered ):

The smaller tributaries often result only in the spring or after heavy rainfall water.

River system Wern

See list of running water in the river system Wern

Towns

One of the towns on the Wern include ( downriver considered ):

• Community Rannungen ( on Leimgraben / Augraben )
• Community Niederwerrn ( districts Oberwerrn and Niederwerrn )
• City of Schweinfurt ( district Bergl )
• Community Geldersheim
• Community (market ) Werneck ( districts and whistles Werth, Ettleben, Werneck, Zeuzleben and Mulhouse )
• Arnstein city ( districts Gänheim, Arnstein, Heugrumbach, Reuchelheim, Müdesheim, neck and rush home field)
• Community (market ) Thiingen
• Karlstadt ( Stetten district )
• Community Eußenheim ( Fine Arts districts, Eußenheim and Aschfeld )
• Community Gössenheim ( districts Gössenheim and Saxony Home )
• City Gemünden ( district Wernfeld )

The Wern is namesake of the inter-municipal alliance Upper Werntal.

Water management

The main triangle is one of the driest areas in Germany. Especially in its northeastern part only rainfall amounts of less than 600 mm can be measured throughout the year usually. The runoff of the catchment area is therefore 4.3 l / s km ² exceptionally low. The Wern often results in very little water and the water quality is quite bad ( mostly grade II to III), but it has improved significantly in the 2010s after the construction of new sewage treatment plants and by the restoration measures.

Fauna

In the Wern grayling, brown trout, stone loach, barbel, bream, minnow, gable, gudgeon, dace, rainbow trout, roach, eel, tench and chub occur.