Acher
Sign in to saveThe Acher () is a river in the county of Ortenau, Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. It is 53.6 km long and flows northwest from the Black Forest to the Rhine, situated between the Rench to the south and the Oos to the north.
Key facts
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- Acher
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- Acher Fluss.jpg
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- The Acher near Oberachern
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- Germany
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- Mouth of the Acher
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- Country
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- Germany
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- State
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- Baden-Württemberg
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- Reference no.
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- DE: 23572
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- On the northeast flank of the Vogelskopf
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- near Iffezheim into the Rhine
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- 448 km2
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- 9.13 m3/s3.39 m3/s (Kappelrodeck, Exit from the Black Forest, 25 % of the catchment)
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- Seebach, Grimmerswaldbach, Sulzbach (Laufbach), Sandbach
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- Gottschlägbach, Unterwasserbach, Fautenbach
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- References
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 120
- Image
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- Length
- 53.5
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- watershed area
- 448
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- Acher
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The Acher () is a river in the county of Ortenau, Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. It is 53.6 km long and flows northwest from the Black Forest to the Rhine, situated between the Rench to the south and the Oos to the north.
== Geography == The source region of the Acher lies on the northeastern mountainside of the Vogelskopf (), an area divided into cirques formed by the ice age. The spring named the Acherquelle rises at a height of in the area of the Ruhesteinloch, which is named after the Ruhestein Saddle to the east and is located between the Vogelskopf and Seekopf ().
On the map
4 mapped locations