White Main Spring

It is located at a height of 887 metres above sea level on the eastern slopes of the Ochsenkopf mountain and is viewed as the source of the Main, even though the Red Main is several kilometres longer.

Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg had it traced in 1717 and impounded in granite blocks bearing the Hohenzollern coat of arms.

By contrast, in 1785 Goethe considered the Seehausbrunnen (50°01′57″N 11°52′18″E / 50.0324418°N 11.871652°E / 50.0324418; 11.871652) southeast of the Schneeberg as the source of the Main and wrote: "the source of the Main, which rises right by the house here and makes the brook look like a tin wash".

Over the Ochsenkopf runs the European Watershed between the source of the Main, whose waters reach the North Sea via the Rhine, and the nearby Fichtelnaab Spring, which drains via the Fichtelnaab and Danube into the Black Sea.

The spring is designated by the Bavarian Department of the Environment as Geotope 472Q003.