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Wutach Basin
Wutach may refer to: * Wutach (river), a river in Baden-Württemberg * Wutach (municipality), a municipality through which the river flows * Wutach Gorge, a gorge system through which the river flows {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wutach (river)
The Wutach () is a river, 91 kilometres long, in the southeastern part of the Black Forest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a right-hand tributary of the Rhine. In its lower reaches it flows for about 6 kilometres along the border with the canton of Canton of Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Name The name Wutach means "furious water", referring to the whitewater rapids in the gorge. ''Wut'' is recognisably cognate to a modern German word for anger; ''ach'', which forms part of the names of many rivers in the region, comes from an old Celtic languages, Celtic word for water, cognate with Latin ''aqua''. Course The river changes its name twice before it discharges into the High Rhine near Waldshut-Tiengen, Waldshut: It rises in the Southern Black Forest as the Seebach in a highland hollow known as the ''Grüble'', only a few metres below the summit of the Seebuck, a subpeak of the Black Forest's highest mountain, the Feldberg (Black Forest), Feldberg. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wutach (municipality)
Wutach is a rural municipality on the northern edge of the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu .... It has a combined administration with the neighbouring town of Bonndorf. There is no settlement as such called Wutach: the municipality includes the villages of Ewattingen (c. 800 inhabitants), Münchingen (c. 300) and Lembach (c. 200). Most of the municipality's facilities (e.g. council offices, and primary school) are in Ewattingen. Wutach lies to the south of the Wutach Gorge, through which the river Wutach flows. References Towns in Baden-Württemberg Waldshut (district) {{Waldshut-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
