Aura (Sinn)

Aura (Sinn)

The Aura near its junction with the Fellach
Country Germany
Location Bavaria
Basin features
Main source Forst Aura
River mouth Burgsinn
Progression Sinn, Franconian Saale, Main, Rhine
Basin size 58.3 square kilometres (22.5 sq mi)[1]
Tributaries
Physical characteristics
Length 8 kilometres (5.0 mi)

The Aura is an 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) tributary of the Sinn River in Bavaria, Germany.

Name

The name Aura originates from the Old High German Uraha. The word ur meant Aurochs, and the word aha meant stream,[2] meaning it was a river where Aurochs lived. The river gives the Gemeinde Aura im Sinngrund its name.

Course

The river originates in the Forst Aura in a valley near Aura im Sinngrund and flows in a southerly direction. In Fellen, it meets its largest tributary, the Fellach. At its mouth, the Aura then turns to the east. The mouth of the river is in Burgsinn, where it flows into the Flutgraben, an anabranch of the Sinn

See also

References

  1. Hochwasser Aktionsplan Main
  2. Wolf-Armin Reitzenstein:Lexikon bayerischer Ortsnamen. Herkunft und Bedeutung.

Coordinates: 50°09′N 9°39′E / 50.150°N 9.650°E / 50.150; 9.650


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