Lempe

The Lempe in the spring of 2012, shortly before its opening in the park by the castle Schoenburg in Hofgeismar

The Lempe is about 16.3 km long, orographic right side or southeast tributary of the fair in the district of Kassel, North Hesse ( Germany ).

Course

The Lempe rises in the southwest part of the Reinhard Forest on the north flank of the Junker head (about 453 m above sea level. NN ). In addition to its beaches located in the unincorporated area Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald source is at 398 m above sea level. NN a crossroads.

Initially, the Lempe runs north- west through the Reinhard Forest and at the same time, a few hundred meters below its origin, beginning, through the nature reserve Upper Lempetal at Hombressen ( NSG-Nr. 318 887 ), which was founded in 1998 and is 154.59 ha. The creek flows past the Strufuskreuz, after which the light coming from the southwest hornbeam ditch discharges, past the forester forest house and the small Mühlstädter pond, which is fed by the Lempe. In this area she leaves the Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald and shortly thereafter the Reinhard Forest.

Then the time being Lempe flows westward through this mountain range west upstream hills of Hofgeismarer Rötsenke, extensive, mostly treeless and agricultural area in the north of Kassel lying northern part of the West Hessian Depression. In this area it runs through the eastern district Hofgeismarer Hombressen, open into the Giesbach, Soode and pure Becke. Then she squeezes through the valley between the small woodland shrub mountain in the northwest and the light Heath in the south, then to flow through the eastern district Hofgeismarer Carlsdorf.

After that bends the Lempe from the northwest and extends past the shrub mill and paper mill in the direction of Hofgeismarer district health well they happened east. She flows - after crossing the B 83 - west at the Protestant hospital healthy well Hofgeismar and east at the park healthy well with the castle Schoenburg over. Then the Lempe happened to the north of this park located Hofgeismarer pool.

Finally, the Lempe bends north of the park to the southwest off to a little later on about 143 m above sea level. NN / to open into the flowing there from the south approach Diemel inflow Esse.

Watershed

The headwaters of the Lempe located on the Fulda- Diemel watershed that is part of the Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide: While the Lempe northwestward flows into the forge, which tends on the Diemel north of the Weser, runs the Osterbach which is about 2.7 km south-southeast of Lempequelle beyond the Junker head springs, southward into the Fulda and then into the Weser.

Attractions and Culture

Other attractions along and near the Lempe include not only the worth visiting Reinhardswald with the Sababurg and standing by the stream Strufuskreuz, reminiscent of the legend of a wild thief, numerous medieval buildings of Hombressen and Carl village as well as the related Hofgeismar in the park Gesundbrunnen castle Schoenburg.

Catchment and inflows

Among the tributaries of the Lempe whose catchment area covers 51.147 km ² belong with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, including Mündungsort with Lempebachkilometer and - if known - catchment size ( downriver considered ) /:

  • Hornbeam trench ( l; 1 km), smaller tributary, above Hombressen opening out (near km 11.6 )
  • Giesbach (r; 3.3 km ), coming from the direction Beberbeck, opening into Hombressen (near km 6.65), 7.091 km ²
  • Soode ( l, 7,2, km ), coming from the direction of Marie Village Ahlberg, opening into Hombressen (near km 5.95), 10.825 km ²
  • Pure Becke ( l; 4.2 km ), coming from the direction Udenhausen, opening into Hombressen (near km 5.55), 6.676 km ²
Esse (Diemel) Junkernkopf Town Orography Naturschutzgebiet Osterbach (Fulda)
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