Wehra is a river 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 ...
,
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 passes through
Todtmoos
Todtmoos is a village and municipality in the district of Waldshut in the southern part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea ...
and
Wehr and flows into the
Rhine
The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
downstream of
Bad Säckingen
Bad Säckingen (; High Alemannic: ''Bad Säckinge'') is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is famous as the "Trumpeter's City" because of the book ''Der Trompeter von Säckin ...
.
Geography
Location and topography
The valley of the Wehra is distinctly divided into three sections.
The upper reaches are a high valley typical of the Black Forest, but at 200 to 300 meters deep, they are significantly more relief-like than the neighboring high valleys of the Hotzenwald to the east. Its center is the village of Todtmoos, which occupies the largest part of the valley, which was noticeably reshaped by ice-age glaciers.
In its middle course, the Wehra cuts a gorge, sometimes over 400 meters deep, into the southwestern slopes of the Black Forest. Steep, wooded slopes alternate with cliffs almost 100 meters high in some places. This steep section of the river is a nationally renowned, extremely difficult whitewater stretch. A rocky outcrop there bears the name ''Hirschsprung (''Stag's Leap).
The approximately seven-kilometer-long lower valley section separates the barely structured, steep, 500-meter-high western slope of the Hotzenwald from the heavily karstified plateau of the Dinkelberg, which rises only a little over 100 meters west of the Wehra valley. The main town in this broad valley is the small industrial town of Wehr, which is, however, increasingly attracting tourists. Near the Brennet district, the Wehra flows into the Rhine, still within sight of the town of Bad Säckingen, which lies upstream.
See also
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List of rivers of Germany
This article lists rivers that are located in Germany, either entirely or partially, or that form the country's international borders. The rivers of Germany flow into either the Baltic Sea (), the Black Sea or the North Sea ().
The main rivers o ...
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List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg
A list of rivers of Baden-Württemberg, Germany:
A
*Aal (Kocher), Aal
*Aalbach (Main), Aalbach
*Aalenbach
*Ablach (Danube), Ablach
*Ach (Blau), Ach
*Acher
*Adelbach
*Aich (river), Aich
*Aid (Würm), Aid
*Aischbach (Kinzig), Aischbach, tributary ...
References
Rivers of Baden-Württemberg
Rivers of Germany
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