The Brexbach (historically: Brachysa ) is a river, just under 22 kilometres (14 mi) long, and an orographically left-hand tributary of the Saynbach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
4-584: The Brexbach is formed by the uniting of the Hinterster Bach and Vorderster Bach in the Grenzhausen municipal forest east of Höhr-Grenzhausen . Many consider the Hinterster Bach simply as the name for the upper reaches of the Brexbach. From the confluence of its two headstreams by some fish ponds , the Brexbach initially runs along the upper edge of the municipality of Höhr-Grenzhausen. In
8-580: The Brexbach Valley Railway , a line that closed passenger services in 1989 and goods trains in 1994, but which partly reopened in 2009 as a heritage railway . Parallel to the historical railway bed runs the 16-kilometre-long (9.9 mi) Brexbach Gorge Way ( Brexbachschluchtweg including the Wäller-Tour and Saynsteig paths), a very varied and, in places, challenging, hiking trail along steep and thickly wooded hillsides. It reaches
12-557: The Brexbach Valley Pathfinder Camp ( Pfadfindercamp Brexbachtal ) in a meadow bottom; for three kilometres there are camping places, some with refuge huts, and a camp chapel. The lower reaches of the Brexbach run past the former Abbey of Sayn [ de ; nl ] , flow through the village of Sayn below Sayn Castle immediately next to the old defensive wall, before emptying into the Saynbach in
16-524: The upper Brexbach valley there was once a mustard mill ( Senfmühle ), which burned down in 1914 - a memorial stone marks the spot - and other mills: the Farbmühle , Niesmühle and the Kühnsmühle , none of which are used as mills any longer. The Brexbach next reaches the village of Grenzau (a district of Höhr-Grenzhausen) and flows through it below Grenzau Castle . Grenzau station is the terminus for
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