The Fischbach is a western and left tributary of the Baden Eschach (''Badische Eschach''). It flows along the eastern edge of the

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in the German state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

(district of Schwarzwald-Baar). The

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

is long, together with its headstream, the ''Glasbach''.

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The ''Fischbach'' begins at the confluence of the right-hand ''Glasbach'', also called the ''Vorderbach'', and the left-hand ''Eschbach''Eschbach–Fischbach as GPS track
/ref> which, in turn, is formed by the left-hand ''Hinterbach'' and right-hand ''Reutenbach'' and then collects the ''Mittelbach'', in the village of Fischbach which belongs to the municipality of Niedereschach. The longer and bigger ''Glasbach'' is seen as the main headstream. Hydrographically this may even be considered the main source of the River Neckar, because the Fischbach has a higher streamflow than the ''Badische Eschach'' which, in turn, is the larger of the two headstreams, and the ''Badische Eschach'' is more powerful than and longer than the young ''Neckar'' at their confluence. The ''Fischbach'' flows in a southeasterly direction and merges with the Baden Eschach near Niedereschach. According to traditional sources the stream from here to Horgen is called the ''(Badische) Eschach'', but current sources see the more powerful and longer Fischbach as continuing to Horgen where, as the bigger but shorter tributary, it empties into the longer Württemberg Eschach (''Württembergische Eschach''), which nowadays is just called the ''Eschach'' without any qualifier.

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{{Authority control Rivers of Baden-Württemberg Rivers of the Black Forest Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis Rivers of Germany

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