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MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 431 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAIN (Lat. Moenus) , a river of Germany, and the most important right-bank tributary of the Rhine. It has two sources, the Weisse Main (White Main), which rises in the
Fichtelgebirge
  on the
east
  side of the Ochsenkopf, and the Rote Main (Red Main), which, rising on the eastern slope of the Frankish Jura, flows past Bayreuth. They unite 3 M. below
Kulmbach
 , 9zo ft. above the sea. Hence the river, already of considerable size, pursues a north-westerly direction, skirting the spurs of the Frankish Jura in a pleasant valley. At Lichtenfels the river takes a
south
 -westerly course, which it retains until entering the- fertile basin of
Bamberg
 . Here it receives from the
south
 -
east
  the waters of its
chief
  tributary, the Regnitz, and enters upon its middle course. Its direction is now again north-west, and meandering through pleasant vales and pastures it passes Hassfurt and reaches
Schweinfurt
 . Its course is now almost due south to Ochsenfurt, when it again proceeds north-west. Continuing in this direction amid vine-clad hills, it washes the walls of the university city of Wurzburg, and thence, dividing the forest-clad ranges of the Spessart and the Odenwald, reaches Gemunden. Here it is joined from the right by the Frankish Saale and, turning abruptly south, receives at Wertheim the beautiful Tauber. Feudal castles and medieval towns now crown its banks, notably, Freudenberg and Miltenberg. From the latter it proceeds due north to Aschaffenburg, whence passing Frankfort it pours its yellowwaters into the green waters of the Rhine just above Mainz. The Main has a
total
  length of 310 M. and drains a basin of approximately 1 r,000 sq. m. It is navigable from the confluence of the Regnitz, 240 M. from its mouth, for
barges
  and other small craft, and through the Ludwig Canal is connected with the Danube.
See Ulrici, Das Maingebiet in seiner natiirlichen Beschaffenheit (Kassel, 1885); E. Faber, Zur Hydrographie des Maingebiets (
Munich
 , 1895), and Lill, Mainthal, Main and Mainschiffahrt (Berlin, 1904).


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