Hühnerbach

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Hühnerbach
The Hühnerbach near Oberostendorf

The Hühnerbach near Oberostendorf

Data
Water code DE : 12662
location Bavaria
River system Danube
source near Rettenbach am Auerberg
muzzle At Jengen- Ummenhofen from the right into the Gennach coordinates: 47 ° 59 '10 "  N , 10 ° 43' 49"  E 47 ° 59 '10 "  N , 10 ° 43' 49"  E

length 33.5 km
Catchment area 72.25 km²
Left tributaries Krummbach
The Hühnerbach near Frankenhofen (Kaltental)

The Hühnerbach is a 25 km long orographically right tributary of the Gennach in Bavaria .

Surname

The name of the chicken brook is probably derived from the wild chicken .

It used to be called the Große Gennach because the Gennach is the shorter river up to the confluence with the Hühnerbach.

course

The Hühnerbach rises near the municipality of Rettenbach am Auerberg in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu . From there it runs north towards Bidingen . It flows strictly in a northerly direction through several communities until it finally flows into the Gennach after 25 kilometers in the Jengener district of Ummenhofen .

Towns and cities

From the source to the mouth, the Hühnerbach flows through the following villages or passes them:

See also

Web links

Commons : Hühnerbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Length according to: Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech river area, page 62 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  2. ↑ Catchment area according to: Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech river area, page 62 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  3. ↑ a b Wolf-Armin Freiherr von Reitzenstein: Lexicon of Swabian place names: origin and meaning. CH Beck , 2013, p. 137.