The Bracht is a river of
Hesse
Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...
, Germany. It is a right-bank tributary of the
Kinzig, into which it flows in
Wächtersbach
The town of Wächtersbach () is part of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. In 1982, the town hosted the 22nd ''Hessentag'' state festival.
Location
Wächtersbach lies between the Spessart and the Vogelsberg Mountains in the middle Kinzig ...
. In large sections, it formed the border between the former
Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, on the right bank, and the
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (, ) was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. It played a signif ...
on the left bank. Even after
WWII
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, this administrative segregation continued in different districts.
See also
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List of rivers of Hesse
This is a list of rivers of Hesse, Germany:
A
* Aar, tributary of the Dill
* Aar, tributary of the Lahn
* Aar, tributary of the Twiste
* Aarbach
* Affhöllerbach
* Ahlersbach, tributary of the Kinzig in Schlüchtern-Herolz
* Ahlersbach, tributa ...
References
Rivers of Hesse
Rivers of the Vogelsberg
Rivers of Germany
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