Dill (river)
The 68-km-long
Dill is a
tributary to the
Lahn, joining it on the right bank, in Middle
Hesse,
Germany.
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View over Dillenburg from the Wilhelmsturm, with the river Dill clearly visible. |
It rises at about 600 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, which is named after it, 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, ones on the river's upper reaches being Offdilln, Dillbrecht and Fellerdilln. At Rodenbach are the forks with the Roßbach, 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, leading by way of Herborn into the Wetzlar area, where it empties into the Lahn.
The Dill's biggest tributaries, going downstream, are 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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River statistics â€" Aßlar*
River statistics â€" Dillenburg*
River statistics â€" Haiger
