NAHE  , a

river of Germany, a left-bank tributary of the Rhine, rises near Selbach in the Oldenburg principality of Birkenfeld . For some distance it forms the boundary between the Bavarian Palatinate and the Prussian Rhine Province, and it falls into the Rhine at Bingen . Its length is 78 m., but it is too shallow and rocky to be navigable . Its picturesque valley, through which runs' the railway from Bingerbrifck to Neunkirchen, is largely visited by tourists . See Schneegans, Geschichte des Nahetals (Kreuznach, 1890) .