River system of the Main

The river system of the Main is structured by the low mountain ranges that run through northern southern Germany . East of the east of the range of Haßbergen , Steigerwald and Frankenhöhe (the north-western part of which, however, separates the Main Basin from the upper Altmühltal ) lies the area of ​​the Upper Main and its source and tributaries to the north of Franconian Switzerland and the Regnitz system to the south . Both river names change here at two confluences (Regnitz from Pegnitz and Rednitz , and Rednitz from Franconian Rezat and Swabian Rezat ). This is also where the longest flow path in the Main System begins. The Itz, which flows roughly across from the Regnitz, drains part of the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the east of the Grabfeld with its tributaries .

Between the above-mentioned mountains in the east and Spessart and Odenwald in the west, a large basin of low plateaus, in which the Main has dug its valley, extends above the Mainspitze at Ochsenfurt, partly wide, at Volkach with a circular mountain , from Ochsenfurt to the breakthrough between Spessart and Odenwald hardly wider than the river. In the south of this basin, the Tauber has dug its valley, which comes from the Taubergrund , a high, flat hollow between the Frankenhöhe and Hohenloher plateau . The most important tributaries of the Tauber are the Gollach from the north side of the Frankenhöhe and the Brehmbach , which comes from the same area as the Erf , which flows further down into the Main , plus the Umpfer from the north of the building land . The triangles formed by the changes in the main direction of the Main are cross-connections, which however upriver have not in the valley connection, cut off the large Wern in the well-known Maindreieck and the smaller Aalbach between Würzburg and Wertheim - Bettingen . From the rivers that flow out at Gemünden am Main, the Franconian Saale drains the west of the grave field, the Sinn the south side of the Rhön and Land ridge .

To the west of the Spessart, the Main valley widens and merges into an eastern expansion of the Upper Rhine Rift, which is, however, subdivided here by hill ridges that run parallel to the Lower Main. In Frankfurt- Höchst opens Nidda collects the water from the after its tributary Weather named Wetterau . The Nidder , which has almost the same name, is one of its tributaries .

The Main and its main tributaries

The Main, its most important tributaries and their most important tributaries from 25 km in length
Representation: Upstream order A body of water flows into that of the river courses listed above, the name of which begins above the indication of the confluence side ("right" / "left") of the flowing water. Arrows are directed downstream and are in front of geographically upper parts of a previously mentioned river course. Lengths after the slash refer to the course of the river according to the official classification in contrast to the traditional use of the name, or to the scientifically longest flow path in contrast to the officially defined river. Waters of less than 25 km by name are included if they are part of the name of a watercourse of this minimum length.
To the longest rivers:				Regnitz  162 km • Franconian Saale  140 km • Tauber  131.7 km • Pegnitz  127.3 km • Nidda  89.7 km • Kinzig  86.0 km • Aisch  83 km • Itz  79.1 km • Wiesent  78 km • Wern  70, 9 km tributaries of tributaries are only in italics in this bar.
Inflow in the direction of flow seen from			Surname			Location of the mouth	GKZ	Length [km]	Catchment area [km²]	mean discharge [m³ / s]
Main						at Kostheim in the Rhine	240000	527/553	27 292, 0	211, 0
right	Schwarzbach ← Dattenbach					Hattersheim	249600	031.4	0134.8	001.1
right	Nidda					Maximum	248000	089.7	1942.4	013.1
	right	Erlenbach				Bad Vilbel	248800	approx. 30	0071.3	000.4
	Left	Nidder				Bad Vilbel	248600	068.6	0435.7	003.9
		Left	Seemenbach			Altenstadt - Lindheim	248660	037.4	0146.2	001.0
	right	Weather				Assenheim	248400	068.8	0517, 0	003.0
		right	United States			at Friedberg	248480	034.1	00184.5, 0	001.2
	right	Horloff				Ober-Florstadt	248200	044.5	0279.2	001.0
right	Rodau					Mülheim	247920	027.6	0163.9	000.6
right	Tiny					Hanau	247800	086.0	1059.3	010.8
	right	Gründau				Langenselbold	247860	030.3	059.8	000.8
	right	Bracht ← Hundsbach				near Wächtersbach	247840	031.5	0117.7	001.6
	right	salt				Salmunster	247820	029.7	091.3	001.2
right	Bald					Bald on the Main	247720	032.4	1984, 0	002.0
Left	Gersprenz ← Mergbach					Kleinostheim	247600	062.2	0513.0	003.5
Left	Mömling					Obernburg	247400	049.7	0377.4	004.0
Left	Mud ← Mudau					Miltenberg	247200	025.4	0408.7	003.4
	Left	Billbach ← Morre				Amorbach , 7.6 km from the Main	247240	024.6	0188.5	00, 0
Left	Experience or experience					Burgstadt	247120	038.3	0254.7	002.1
Left	Deaf					Wertheim	246000	130.6	1809.5	009.8
	right	Gollach				Bieberehren	246200	033.6	0164.5	000.6
Left	Aalbach ↑ Waldbüttelbronner Augraben ↑ Weidengraben					Wertheim - Bettingen	245800	026.1	0140.4	000.5
right	Hafenlohr ← Tiergartenbach					Hafenlohr	245600	027.7	0147.3	001.7
right	Franconian Saale					Gemünden	244000	140 / 152.8	2776, 0	016.6
	right	sense				Gemünden	244800	069.4	0622.6	007.7
		right	Jossa			Sinntal - Jossa	244840	032.3	0146.7	001.5
		right	Narrow sense ← Small sense			Altengronau / Zeitlofs	244820	032.4	0103.6	00
	right	Thulba				near Hammelburg	244540	027.2	0140, 0	000.8
	right	Brend				Bad Neustadt	243200	029.7	0139.9	001.6
	right	Litter				Haystack	244200	041.9	0447.9	000.9
right	spleen					room	244120	036.4	0186.1	001.1
right	Wern					Wernfeld	243800	070.9	0600.9	000.3
right	Pleichach					Wurzburg	243600	033.8	0128, 0	00, 0
Left	Regnitz					near Bamberg , 133.2 u. 153.3 km from the Main sources	242000	58.9 / 162	7523.4	053.1
	Left	(lower) Aurach				north of Pettstadt	242960	034.3	0107.4	00, 0
	Left	Rauhe Ebrach				north of Pettstadt	242940	037.7	0323.4	002.1
		right	Middle Ebrach			Burgebrach - Grasmannsdorf	242942	025.3	00, 0	00, 0
	Left	Rich Ebrach				Hirschaid	242920	044.9	0296.7	001.7
	Left	Aisch				Trailsdorf	242800	083	0106.8	004.8
		Left	Ehebach or great marriage			Diespeck	242820	26.7 (30.1)	0271, 0	00, 0
			Left	Laimbach		Baudenbach , 7.7 km from its mouth	242822	5.7 / 22.4	0066.7	00, 0
				Left	Bills	southern Scheinfeld	242822 ...	012.4	00, 0	00, 0
				^ Bibart			242822	16.7 / 22.4	00, 0	00, 0
	right	Wiesent				Forchheim	242600	078, 0	1041, 0	007.2
		right	Aufseß			vs. Gößweinstein	242440	028.9	0098.1	00, 0
	right	Schwabach (Regnitz)				gain	242382	032.4	0191, 0	001.5
	Left	Middle Aurach				near Frauenaurach	242360	039.3	0164.8	000.3
	Left	Zenn				Fuerth - Vach	242320	049.1	0257, 0	001.4
	right	Pegnitz				Fuerth	242200	112.8 / 127.3	1230.3	011.5
		right	Pegnitz spring			in Pegnitz , depending on your perspective northwest. or southeast d. Old town	242219 ...	0.14 / 1.3	00, 0	00, 0
		↑ Fichtenohe					242200	015th, 0	00, 0	00, 0
	↑ Rednitz					Fuerth	242000	46 / 103.1	2200, 0	012.2
	Left	Bibert				Zirndorf	242180	042.3	0328.8	000.3
	Left	Schwabach				Schwabach - Limbach	242172	023, 0	0108, 0	000.5
	right	Schwarzach				Schwabach - Schwarzach	242160	056.2	0303.9	003.3
	Left	Aurach				north Roth	242152	028.5	0128.4	000.6
	right	Swabian Rezat (to the source)				Georgensgmünd	242120	033.3	0285.0	002.0
	↑ Franconian Rezat						242000	063.5	0453.8	002.2 (376.2 km²)
right	Baunach					Baunach	241800	053.9	0426.2	002.2
right	Itz						241600	079.1	1029, 0	009.3
	right	Rodach (Itz)				Itzgrund - Bodelstadt	241660	041.7	00386.5, 0	002.5
	Left	Grumble				Almerswind , 12.9 km to Itzquelle	241614	015.6	00, 0	00, 0
right	Rodach					western Hochstadt	241400	053, 0	1009.9	010.4
	right	Steinach				Redwitz	241460	053.1	0240, 0	003.8
	right	Hasslach				Kronach	241440	031.2	0320.9	002.6
		Left	Kronach				241446	7.9 / 27.6	00, 0	001.7
			Left	Grumpy		at Wilhelmsthal	241446 ...	012.5	00, 0	00, 0
			^ Kremnitz ← Finsterbach				241446	019.7	00, 0	00, 0
Left	Red Main					Katschenreuth	241200	071.8	519, 0	004.5
	right	Warm Steinach				Bayreuth - Sankt Johannis	241240	028.1	087.9	001.2
↑ White Main						Katschenreuth	200000	051.7	636.5	009.2
right	Schorgast					5 km above Kulmbach	241180	15.4 / 26.35	247.8	003.7
	right	Perlenbach ← Stammbach ← Kropfbach				NW Marktschorgast , 3.38 km below its Q.	241182	013.7	027.1

See also

• River system
• List of tributaries of the Main

Individual evidence

1. ↑ with a longer upper course Bibart → Laimbach see table
2. ↑ Length of the Fichtenohe according to LfU Bavaria: Alphabetical list of waters - water body indicators, lengths, drainage routes
3. ↑ The Swabian Rezat rises near the main European watershed and 2 km afterwards runs for a short distance directly next to it, see Bavaria Atlas: Rezatquelle and Altmühl
4. ↑ GKZ 241614 for the Grümpen indirectly derived from the LfU entry 241615 for Itz between Grümpen and Erferlder . Erfelder has 241616.