Andlau (river)

The Andlau is a Rivière the Low-Rhine (Alsace), affluent of the Ill.

Andlau, with a Celtic root andon ( source), was invited into 886 “Andelhaha” then “Andelhoha” into 999 to take the name of Andlau. It gave its name to the locality of Andlau in the the Low-Rhine. Long of almost 43 km, Andlau is a sometimes impetuous river, sometimes languid. It takes its source in lower part of the Peak of the Bilberries (1080m) to the Field of fire, and, is transformed into a cascade above the Hohwald, by descending the valley of Eléon to cross Andlau, the city of which it bears the name.

Dreiangelbach (“Bach” into Alsatian results in “brook”), torrent of mountain, joined Andlau to 823 m of altitude and feed it. Kirneck comes to enlarge the river out of left bank downstream from Valff. Andlau joined Ill with the height of Fegersheim.

Torrent of mountain, then river with strong water fall (800 m of fall on 14 km, are an average slope of 63% compared with 22% with the passage of the town of Andlau and 1% in the plain between Eichhoffen and Fegersheim), Andlau had in the past a strong economic use, in particular by the irrigation of the meadows, the food of the sawmills, the mills of Andlau, and the transport of wood by floatation before the construction of the road of Hohwald (1850).

External bonds

Site of the PIKE PERCH
Flows characteristic of Andlau

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