Lahn

The Lahn River is a 245.6-kilometer (152.6 mi)-long, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine River in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).

It has its source in the Rothaargebirge, the highest part of the Sauerland. It meets the Rhine at Lahnstein, near Koblenz. Important cities along the Lahn include Marburg, Gießen, Wetzlar, Limburg an der Lahn, Weilburg and Bad Ems.

Tributaries to the Lahn include the Dill, the Weil and the Aar Rivers. The lower Lahn has many dams with locks, allowing regular shipping from its mouth up to Runkel. Riverboats are also used on a small section north of the dam in Gießen.

Source area

The Lahn originates at the Lahnhof, a locality of Nenkersdorf, which is a constituent community of Netphen in southeastern North Rhine-Westphalia, near the border with Hesse. The source area is situated along the Eisenstraße scenic highway and the Rothaarsteig hiking trail.

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Lahn (Wald im Pinzgau)

Lahn is a dispersed settlement in the Oberpinzgau, the upper Salzach valley and the district of Zell am See/Pinzgau, and a village in the municipality of Wald im Pinzgau, on the southern rim of the Kitzbühel Alps.

Geography

The settlement, which has about 280 inhabitants and 80 houses, lies higher up the valley from Wald and Vorderwaldberg on the southern slopes of the Salzach valley, between 900 metres (2,950 ft) on the valley floor and the B 165 Gerlos Road, 1,100 metres (3,610 ft) on the Old Gerlos Road (Alten Gerlosstraße), the L 133, (Ghf. Grübl) and 1,200 metres (3,940 ft) in the Lahnbauer wilderness with several other farmsteads. In addition the village has a halt, Lahnsiedlung, on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn, the Postbus line 670 Zell am See – Krimml stops in the Finksiedlung.

Also part of the village are the eastern slopes of the Trattenbach valley – the western slopes belong to Rosental (Gemeinde Neukirchen) – to the north, with the alpine meadows of Besensteinalm, Wurfgrundalm, Wurf-Hochalm, Happingalm, Happing Hochalm on the Gernkogel and Trattenbachalm, Trattenbach-Hochalm on the Kröndlhorn. The parish area runs up to the state border with Tyrol at the Filzenscharte ridge, extending about 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi) from north to south.