Acher

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Acher
Origin	Black Forest
Mouth	Rhine
Basin countries	Germany
Length	approx. 40 km
Source elevation	1054 m

The Acher is a river in Ortenau County, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a right tributary of the Rhine River. It flows in an eastwesterly direction from the Black Forest toward the Rhine, between the Rench River to the South and the Oos River to the North.

Its source is located near the top of Schliffkopf Mountain (Black Forest) at an elevation of 1054 m above sea level, above Ottenhöfen. From there it runs through the Acher Valley until it enters the Upper Rhine River Plains near Achern and flows into the Rhine near Lichtenau.

[edit] External links

• More information about the Acher (in German) with pictures

[edit] References

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article (retrieved January 25, 2006).

• Britannica Atlas