Ipeľ

The Ipeľ at Šahy

The course and the catchment area of ​​Ipeľ in Slovakia and Hungary

The Ipeľ ( Slovak) or Ipoly (Hungarian, German Eipel ) is a 232.5 km long left tributary of the Danube.

It rises in Slovakia in the Slovak Ore Mountains ( specifically in the part Volovské Hills ) in central Slovakia in about 1000 m altitude in the mountains south of Brezno and east of the Central Slovakian capital of Banská Bystrica.

The Ipeľ has a relatively steep and varied headwaters with two striking changes of direction, the second takes place in the town Poltár. From Lučenec accompany him the hills and mountains of the Juhoslovenská kotlina that form alternating with the flow of the curvy outline of the current border with Hungary.

Here the river flows through the Danube hill country as well as its neighboring river Hron.

The last 140 km form the border between Slovakia and Hungary (with one exception in Šahy, where the river flows completely to 30 km in Slovakia). In the last 20 kilometers of the Ipeľ surrounded in a left semi-circle Borzsony mountains before the Danube Bend from Szob between Esztergom and Vac from the north ( left side ) opens at Chľaba the longest river in Central Europe.

The larger towns along the lower reaches are (downstream) Szécsény and Balassaqyarmat (both Hungary) and Šahy on the Slovak side.

In the past there was the section between Ipolytarnóc and the estuary at Chľaba / Szob 47 bridges of any kind on the river. Almost all were damaged or destroyed in the Second World War. Against 2004, there were 12 bridges on this section, of which only four at the state border. The most important are the railway bridge of the railway line Bratislava -Budapest, road bridge in Šahy on the main road 66 (E 77) and road bridge between Slovenské Ďarmoty and Balassaqyarmat. Are in some places, the majority of the former bridges today pedestrian bridges.

A border bridge connects the Hungary and Slovakia, is located between raros and Ráróspuszta. They will be completed in October 2011. A second will be completed by the end of 2011 Peťov in Slovakia.

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