Besengau

The Besengau is a landscape in northern Lower Franconia in front of the Rhön .

The Besengau essentially includes the districts of the places

• Bastheim , ironically often referred to as the “broom metropolis”; with the districts of Braidbach , Geckenau , Reyersbach , Rödles , Simonshof , Unterwaldbehrungen and Wechterswinkel ,
• Frickenhausen , part of the city of Mellrichstadt ;

The name Besengau is explained by the activity of tying brooms from rice (= branches) of the birch, which was exercised by the population in the winters of the 18th and 19th centuries due to economic hardship.

The waters are the Els with their tributaries, Riedwiesenbach, Ronsbach, Braidbach and Frickenbach and the Frickenhäuser See .