Schnakenbach

Confluence with the Westerholter Bach

The Schnakenbach ( ostwestfälisch: " Schnakenbieke ") is an orographic right tributaries of Westerholter creek in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. It has a length of 3.4 km.

River course

The actual, included in an old weir source of gnats creek is located southeast of Oerlinghausen on the southwest flank of the Tönsberges in the Teutoburg Forest. After a flow distance of around 500 meters, but the water of the stream seeps into the sand and occurs only three kilometers to the south within a designated " Bokelfenn " and the actual Bergland upstream swampy lowlands back to days when the water-impermeable marl layer of the Teutoburg Forest where the surface achieved.

The Schnakenbach crosses then in southwestern direction, the 19 -hectare nature reserve " dry valleys, box valleys and dunes of the upper Westerholter brook ", within this area, two storage ponds also be traversed. After the stream has left the protection area, also carried the flow of another pond, where a nameless waters to, and the resulting here Westerholter creek runs. This pond and its marshy shore area are called " stag sources " means.

Then the Schnakenbach crosses the city limits of Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock, affected the source basin of the bones creek and river flows south of the Stuke Brocker cemetery in a forest again with the Westerholter Bach together just before this flows into the oil stream. In the last section of its flow path of Schnakenbach is piped.

Differences in the classification

Some cards and also the name of the traversed nature reserve pursue the assumption that it is the portion of the crane fly creek between the headwaters and deer sources to the continuation of the Westerholter creek is, while the nameless feed the deer sources is seen as the true headwaters of the crane fly creek. However, the official geodata material not used this system.