Emsbach, Brook in Hochtaunuskreis, Germany

The Emsbach is a river of Hesse, Germany, that flows into the Lahn at Eschhofen, a district of Limburg in the Limburg-Weilburg county. The name also denotes a right tributary of the Lahn in Bad Ems in Rhineland-Palatinate, a stream in Agarn in the Swiss canton of Valais, and a tributary of the Vorarlberger Rheintalbinnenkanal in Hohenems, Austria.

The Emsbach is the left-bank tributary of the Lahn that rises in the Taunus and reaches the Lahn at Eschhofen, now part of Limburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district of Hesse. A second stream of the same name flows into the Lahn from the Westerwald at Bad Ems in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis of Rhineland-Palatinate. The name also belongs to a tributary of the Märetschibach in Agarn, Valais, and to a stream entering the Vorarlberger Rheintalbinnenkanal at Hohenems.

The name Emsbach is shared by several streams, including the Emsbach that flows into the Lahn at Eschhofen in Limburg and a second Emsbach entering the Lahn at Bad Ems. The Emsbach near Eschhofen is also known as the Ems. The surname Emsbach is borne by the historian and archivist Karl Emsbach, born in 1946.

The Emsbach is a small tributary that enters the Lahn at Eschhofen, now part of the town of Limburg in Hesse. It rises in the Taunus and runs through the Hochtaunuskreis area before reaching the Lahn valley. Visitors reach its lower course via Eschhofen station on the Limburg line; the upper reaches lie in open Taunus country.

The Emsbach shares its name with several unrelated waterways: another Emsbach joins the Lahn at Bad Ems in Rhineland-Palatinate, a third feeds the Vorarlberger Rheintalbinnenkanal at Hohenems in Austria, and an Ämsbach flows into the Märetschibach in Agarn, Valais. The surname Emsbach also belongs to the historian and archivist Karl Emsbach, born in 1946.