Hessel

The Hessel is a 40 km long right tributary of the Ems in the fields of North Rhine-Westphalia circles Gütersloh and Warendorf.

The river rises northwest of Halle (Westfalen ) at the Great Egge, crosses the Hermannsweg, flows through the Haller districts Hesseln and Hörste, then to the metropolitan area of ​​Versmold by Oesterweg, through the town Sass mountain and on the southern edge of the Warendorf hamlet Milte before it flows into the Ems near Warendorf - One.

In the vicinity of Sass Berg at the Hessel chess flower meadows, one of the few places in Germany where still occurs strictly protected Schachblume.