Bike Touring Highlight
Only 32 km long is the Kahl between its source in the Spessart and its mouth in the Main. Until the 1920s, the riverbed of the Kahl was located about three hundred meters further north in the estuary, where the border between Hesse and Bavaria still runs today. On the banks of the Main, the "Deepest point of Bavaria" is marked here. But the lignite mine in the pit "Emma" had a shift of the Kahlmündung may be required, so that the Kahl now flows around the meanwhile a lake, the Hornsee, become former open pit in a wide arc.
June 3, 2018
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