Main

Main
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The 527-kilometer-long river (also Maa dialect, and Mee Mää) arises from a confluence of two rivers White Main source (Fichtelgebirge) and Red Main (Franconian Alb) in Bavaria (Germany). The longest right tributary of the Rhine flows through in a big W, between Aschaffenburg and Schweinfurt, the wine-growing region Franconia . All the vineyards are on south-facing valley slopes to the river banks of the river Main, or in valleys of its tributaries (Franconian Saale, Kinzig, Nidda, Regnitz, Tauber ) Is created. After the passage of the metropolitan areas Wuerzburg and Frankfurt am Main He leads over the old town of Mainz between Ginsheim and the Mainz-Wiesbaden district Kostheim into the Rhine. The course of the Main form in Franconia two noticeable landforms, the main triangle and the main square, which also gave two Franconian wine-growing areas of the name. A large part of the Franconian vineyards with about 4,200 hectares is located directly on or around the main triangle. A special feature here is the wine in the island district of Kitzingen, between an original arm of the river Main (Altmain) and the main channel between Volkach Gerlach and Stockhausen. On this island caused by human influence wine production. The small area Mainviereck includes only 330 acres of vineyards.