Steina (Schwalm)

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The Steina is about 13.9 km long, right-sided or eastern tributary of the Schwalm in Osthessischen highlands in northern Hesse Schwalm- Eder district and is part of the river system and catchment area of ​​the river Weser.

Course

The Steina rises in the hill country, in Osthessischen Knüllgebirge. Your source is located in the Hochknüll about 670 m southwest of the Black Borner hamlet Rich Mountain on the west flank of crumpled condyle ( 633.8 m above sea level. NN ) to about 563 m above sea level. NN.

Initially the Steina flows, which runs predominantly in the direction west southwest, west through the Knüllgebirge, where they crossed a little below its origin, the country road 3155 ( Seigertshausen - Schwarzenborn ). Then it passes each slightly south of this road and the village Seigertshausen, a northern district of Neukirchen, the Happel mill and the Hergertsmühle and then, a little further west, the stave mill. A little further west-southwest happens when the river discharge from the Knüllgebirge the abseitige Willing Hausener school Melanchthon School Steinatal. Shortly thereafter, the now northwestward flowing creek is bridged by the federal highway 454.

Then the Steina runs westward through the village Steina Hausener Willing to something after crossing a small canal and after overcoming of about 350 m difference in altitude to about 213 m above sea level. NN to open on the High Meadow in the coming there from the south inflow Schwalm Eder.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​20.497 km ² comprises Steina. Its tributaries include with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, Mündungsort with stone Abach kilometers and - if known - catchment ( downstream considered ):

• Angersbach ( l; 6.2 km ), far above Steina (near km 6.6 ), 5.016 km ²