The Mehrbach () is a river, long, and a tributary of the Wied. Its GKZ is 27164, its

catchment A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, th ...

has an area of .

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The Mehrbach rises in the north of the

Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the States of Germany, German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Ma ...

, north of

Werkhausen Werkhausen is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Se ...

, in the vicinity of the border between

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

and

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

, and flows in a southerly direction. On its way to the Wied it initially crosses the territories of Werkhausen, Hasselbach and Forstmehren. It then forms the boundary between the parishes of Ersfeld and Kraam and flows through the village of Mehren in a southerly direction. South of Hirz-Maulsbach to its confluence, the Mehrbach forms the boundary between the districts of

Neuwied Neuwied (, ) is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the Neuwied (district), District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt ...

on the right and

Altenkirchen Altenkirchen () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the Altenkirchen (district), district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the ' ...

on the left, apart from a break near . In Neuwied the Mehrbach flows through the municipality of Asbach with its parishes and hamlets of , , , , and {{ill, Ehrenstein (Asbach), lt=Ehrenstein, de; in the district of Altenkirchen it passes through the municipalities of Kescheid and

Rott Rott may refer to: Places * Rott (Ammersee), a tributary of the Ammersee, in Bavaria, Germany * Rott (Inn, Neuhaus am Inn), a tributary of the Inn at Neuhaus am Inn, in eastern Bavaria, Germany * Rott (Inn, Rott am Inn) a tributary of the Inn at ...

.Landschaftsinformationssystem der Naturschutzverwaltung Rhineland-Palatinate
/ref> Its left hand tributaries are (from the source) the Werkhausener Bach, the Weyerbuscher Bach and the Ahlbach. Its right bank tributaries are the streams of Retterserbach (called the ''Scherenbach'' near its source and also called the ''Peschbach'' near Ersfeld), Friesbach, Maulsbach, Hirzbach and Krumbach. From the hamlet of Dasbach to its mouth the Mehrbach flows through the

Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park The Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park () is a nature park in Germany that covers an area of around 470 km2 to the east of the River Rhine and in the north of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate between Neuwied and Unkel. It extends from the Rhin ...

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Rivers of the Westerwald Neuwied (district) Altenkirchen (district) Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate Rivers of Germany

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