Weißache Explained

Weißache
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Austria
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Tyrol
Length:24.2km (15miles)
Source1 Location:German: Zinsberggrund in Ellmau
Source1 Elevation:ca. 
Mouth Location:In Kufstein into the Inn
Mouth Elevation:ca. 
Basin Landmarks:Small towns: Söll, Kufstein
Custom Label:References

The Weißache is a river of Tyrol, Austria, a right tributary of the Inn.

The Weißache flows in the Sölllandl, a valley between the Kaiser Mountains and the Hohe Salve. It rises at about on the German: Zinsberggrund in the German: Weißachergraben and discharges in, a district of Kufstein, into the Inn.

The Ache flows through the following municipalities (in downstream order): Ellmau, Scheffau, Söll, Schwoich, Kufstein.

Before the road branches off to Schwoich, the river is divided and a larger part is pumped under the hill German: Kufsteiner Waldt into a heat-only boiler station south of Kufsteins and acts as cooling water, before it flows back on a natural course into the Inn. Between Egerbach (a district of Schwoich) and (a district of Kufstein) the remaining part of the Weißache flows for about through a long gully, before it exits from the valley and heads northwest towards the Inn. This part discharges into the Inn around 2km (01miles) after the boiler station.

In 2005 numerous measures were taken in Kufstein to reinforce the banks. The stream has cut ever deeper in the past years which could cause its banks to collapse.