Kinzig

The Kinzig is a waterway, 87 kilometers in length, in southern Hesse, Germany. It is a correct tributary of the Main. Its source is in the Spessart slopes at Sterbfritz, close Schluchtern. The Kinzig streams into the Main in Hanau. The Main-Kinzig-Kreis district was named after the waterway. The towns along the Kinzig are Schluchtern, Steinau a der Strabe, Bad Soden-Salmunster, Gelnhausen, and Hanau. The Kinzig is first recorded in 815 A.D. as Chinzicha. This stream had an influence in the Battle of Hanau in October 1813, as Napoleon withdrew back to the Rhine, after his annihilation at the Battle of Leipzig.

The wellspring of the Kinzig is situated at a stature of around 400 m above ocean level NN, in the region of an Aussiedlerhof, an as of late settled farmstead outside a town, south of Sterbfritz in the district of Sinntal. It is a little spring, encased in sandstone, that has an outpouring channel. The headstream that ascents here streams for a couple of meters towards the northwest where it joins with a more drawn out headstream. The Kinzig catchment covers a territory of 1,058 square kilometers.