Sennebach

The Senne Bach at Westerwiehe

The Senne Bach ( in the upper reaches Rahmke called ) is a right-side tributary of the Ems in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. It has a length of 25.6 km.

River course

The Senne river, which drains as well as the neighboring streams a glacial boulder clay ridge, rises in the Senne as Rahmke just in the field of community Augustendorf. The Rahmke enters However, after a few meters, the urban area of ​​Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock and there also briefly the nature reserve gorges and Moore at the top Furlbach.

The flattening of the Teutoburg Forest, following the Rahmke flows in southwestern direction from first traverses the terrain of a golf course and heads north at the Zoo Safari Park Stukenbrock over. After about five kilometers flow path and the left-side recording of an unnamed tributary the water changes its name to Senne river and crosses then the federal motorway 33 After the Bach briefly Hövelhofer area has crossed not far from its northern point, it flows south through typical for Emssandebene parkland on Liemke and then at the Verl Kaunitz districts and Austria Wiehe over.

North of the Steinhorster basin of the Senne river finally enters the city limits of Rietberg, to New churches used to and passes through the village to the south. There the waters is also briefly also the northern end of the Rietberger Garden Show Park.

After crossing an industrial area of the Senne river flows around the Rietberger core urban area and flows west of it at the level of Rottwiese in the Ems.

Structural data

A structure quality mapping from the year 2001 showed the following values:

  • Local layers to 0 % of river length,
  • Grassland 37% left, 47 % right,
  • Needle forest, farmland, garden Llinks 37%, 30 % right,
  • Shoreline deficit 85 % left, 85 % right,
  • Riprap 14% left, 12% right,
  • 60 transverse structures, 24 as a basic threshold

Land use in the catchment area:

  • Settlement: 4%
  • Grassland: 17%
  • Arable land: 54%
  • Forest areas: 12 %
  • Industry: 2%

The water structure quality is from 5 reviews ( noticeably damaged ) and 6 ( severely damaged ) dominates. However, over the course may also be areas with the Rating 1 ( hardly affected ) and 7 ( excessively damaged ) find.

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