Bever (Weser)

The Bever in Beverungen

The Bever is a 10.5 km long, left-sided or southwestern tributary of the Weser in the circle Hoexter, North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ).

It is to be distinguished from the Bever creek, an eastern tributary of the Weser. This leads further to the north at Bevern in Lower Saxony in the Weser.

Course

The creek Bever arises on the northeast edge of the flange Warburger by the 1.3 km east-southeast of Borgholz in malice mill located the confluence of the coming of Borgholz Jordan and the flowing of Natzungen or southwest zoom donkey Bach.

From here the Bever runs along a portion of the B 241 in predominantly northeast through southern parts of the Weser Uplands. The water coming from the southeast of Bach's Lebersiek taping it flows Dalhausen ( south-western district of Beverungen ) to lead on the southern outskirts of Beverungen after crossing the B 83 in the coming from the south Weser. Your mouth are located opposite the southern Lower Saxony community Lauenfoerde and the Solling Hills.

Name history

It is believed that the river name from the Low German word for beaver, " Bever " comes.

History

On 1 December 2006 it came to a slurry accident results in contamination of the water. Through a fist-sized crack in the fermenter the biogas plant in Borgentreich - Natzungen reached large amounts in the fermentation substrate Eselsbach and thus in the Bever, which led to a massive fish kill. Trout, eels, mullet, crabs and other aquatic animals died, of which the adjacent fish ponds were affected.