The Elz is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine. It rises in the Black Forest, near the source of the Breg. The Elz flows through Elzach, Waldkirch and Emmendingen before reaching the Rhine near Lahr. Its length is approx. 121 km (75 mi).
Source of the Elz
High valley above the V-shaped valley of the Elz (The Elzhofbächle on the Rohrhardsberg)
Wassermer Wehr at the canalised Elz south of Emmendingen
View upriver via Emmendingen to the Kandel
The Black Forest is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.
View from the Hohfelsen near Seebach
Black Forest farmhouse, 1898
An unmarried Black Forest woman wearing a red Bollenhut, 1898
Woods and pastures of the High Black Forest near Breitnau