 In the district of Bensheim-Auerbach, the Auer is split into two parts, one above ground and the other being a subterranean channel.Because of the recurring floods in the street Bachgasse, the largest part of the Auer was channeled in the 1980s.Like at the antetype Freiburg Bächle, an ever constant part of the Auer flows openly through the Bachgasse, through the old village of Auerbach passing numerous half-timbered buildings towards the Bundesstraße 3 (Darmstädter Straße).