Gronau () 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
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and a right tributary of the
Sinn. Including its left source river ''Westernbach'', it has a total length of .
Course
The Gronau rises in the
unincorporated area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
''
Gutsbezirk Spessart'' in the
Hessian part of the ''
Mittelgebirge
A ''Mittelgebirge'' (; German: ''Mittel'', "middle or mid"; ''Gebirge'', "mountains or mountainous area") is a type of relatively low mountain range or highland area typical of the geography of central Europe, especially central and southern Germ ...
''
Spessart
Spessart () is a ''Mittelgebirge'', a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. It is bordered by the Vogelsberg, Rhön and Odenwald. The highest elevation is the Geiersberg (Spessart), Geiersberg at 586 metre ...
. It flows into the
Sinn at
Altengronau.
See also
*
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
External links
Rivers of Hesse
Rivers of the Spessart
Rivers of Germany
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