Dill River

The Dill, a river 55 Kilometers long, flows through Middle Hesse in Germany and becomes a tributary to the Lahn, joining it on the right bank.

It rises at about 567 m above sea-level north of Haiger-Offdilln on the eastern slope of the "Haincher Höhe" (heights that reach 606 m), lying where the Rothaargebirge and Westerwald ranges abut each other. The river then flows through the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse (whence the name of the district), southwards by way of Dillenburg and Herborn, finally emptying into the Lahn at Wetzlar.

The river Dill runs through many places that draw their names from it; on the river's upper reaches these include Offdilln, Dillbrecht and Fellerdilln. At Rodenbach the Roßbach joins the Dill, whence the river flows by the town of Haiger on its way to Dillenburg, once the seat of the old Dill district and former residence town of the House of Orange-Nassau. The Dill continues by way of Herborn into the Wetzlar area, where it empties into the Lahn.

The Dill's largest tributaries, going downstream, include the Roßbach, the Haigerbach, the Aubach, the Donsbach, the Dietzhölze, the Nanzenbach, the Schelde, the Aar, the Ambach, the Rehbach, the Lemp and the Blasbach.

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External links

* [http://www.hlug.de/medien/wasser/pegel/peg_mess/25842500.htm River statistics – Aßlar]
* [http://www.hlug.de/medien/wasser/pegel/peg_mess/25840708.htm River statistics – Dillenburg]
* [http://www.hlug.de/medien/wasser/pegel/peg_mess/25840253.htm River statistics – Haiger]