Course of The River
The Wiese rises on Mount Feldberg and flows as a mountain stream through a narrow valley with steep slopes in the Black Forest, past the towns of Fahl, Brandberg and Todtnau. After Todtnau, it flows past Geschwend and through the towns of Utzenfeld, Schönau im Schwarzwald, Wembach Fröhnd, and then past the villages of Mambach, Atzenbach and Zell im Wiesental.
Between Zell im Wiesental and Hausen im Wiesental, the narrow valley open sup and the Wiese valley becomes a wide open plain. The river flows past the towns and villages of Fahrnau, Schopfheim, Gündenhausen, Maulburg, Höllstein, Steinen and past the districts Hauingen, Brombach, Haagen, Tumringen, the city center, Tüllingen and Stetten of the city of Lörrach.
After the railway bridge in Stetten, the river leaves Germany and flows its last six kilometers across Swiss territory. It flows through the municipality of Riehen and into Basel, where it flows into the Rhine. The German municipality of Weil am Rhein is not directly adjacent to the Wiese, however, it has access to the river via the hamlet of Mühleteich.
The towns and municipalities along the Wiese all belong to the Landkreis of Lörrach, except Riehen and Basel, which are in the half-canton of Basel-Stadt.
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