# Brexbach

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The **Brexbach** (historically: *Brachysa*) is a river, just under 22 kilometres (14 mi) long, and an [orographically](/source/Orographically) left-hand tributary of the [Saynbach](/source/Saynbach) in the German state of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate).

## Course

The *Brexbach* is formed by the uniting of the *Hinterster Bach* and *Vorderster Bach* in the Grenzhausen municipal forest east of [Höhr-Grenzhausen](/source/H%C3%B6hr-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](/source/Fish_pond), the Brexbach initially runs along the upper edge of the municipality of Höhr-Grenzhausen. In 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](/source/Grenzau_Castle). Grenzau station is the terminus for the [Brexbach Valley Railway](/source/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](/source/Heritage_railway).

Parallel to the historical railway bed runs the 16-kilometre (9.9-mile) 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 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](/source/Abbey_of_Sayn), flow through the village of [Sayn](/source/Sayn) below [Sayn Castle](/source/Sayn_Castle) immediately next to the old defensive wall, before emptying into the [Saynbach](/source/Saynbach) in the park of [Schloss Sayn](/source/Schloss_Sayn). The Saynbach discharges into the [Rhine](/source/Rhine) in the area of [Bendorf](/source/Bendorf) harbour.

## Tributaries

- Hinterster Bach (*right-hand headstream*), 3.2 km
- Vorderster Bach (*left-hand headstream*), 1.3 km
- Seelbach (*right*), 2.2 km
- Masselbach (*right*), 9.5 km
- Felsgraben (*right*), 0.8 km
- Eisenbach (*left*), 1.0 km
- Nauorter-Floß (*right*), 1.6 km

## See also

- [List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/List_of_rivers_of_Rhineland-Palatinate)

## External links

- [Homepage of the Brexbach Valley Pathfinder Camp](http://www.brex.de/)
- [Homepage of the Brexbach Valley Railway](http://www.diebrex.de/)

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