Brixentaler Ache 1.57

The Brixentaler Ache is a right tributary of the River Inn in Austria. It is located in the state of Tyrol and passes through the districts of Kitzbühel and Kufstein. The Brixentaler Ache ist one of the biggest tributaries of the Inn in the Tyrolean Unterland by catchment area (330.3 km²), but she is only 28 km long.CourseThe Brixentaler Ache rises as the Brixenbach in the territory of Brixen im Thale and flows westwards through the Brixental valley. Between Westendorf and Hopfgarten im Brixental (the main village in the valley) the valley floor narrows. Immediately after this bottleneck the Windauer Ache joins the Brixenbach from the south. From this confluence the Brixenbach is known as the Brixentaler Ache. After about a kilometre the larger Kelchsauer Ache (also from the south) joins the river. The ca. 26 km long Kelchsauer Ache drains the entire Kelchsau area.Between Hopfgarten and Kirchbichl / Wörgl the Ache is again forced through a gorge, before it breaks out into the plains of the Inn valley. On leaving the gorge the Ache is impounded by a large weir and part of the water is diverted into a channel that leads to a small power station run by TIWAG. Below the weir the Luecher Bach enters the main stream from the direction of Söll to the north. After having been fed by so much water from its big tributaries the Ache now dominates the landscape of the broad and densely settled Brixental valley. After the now around 16 metre wide Brixentaler Ache has flowed through Wörgl, it discharges from the south into the Inn.