Wietze (Örtze)

The Wietze north of weary / Örtze

The Wietze is a 27 km long river in the southern Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony and the largest tributary of the Örtze.

The headwaters of the Wietze located east of belonging to Soltau town Moide. The then to Wietzendorf south-facing creek was once the upper reaches of the Meiss, the further south, in Great Moor at Becklingen, takes its beginning. Today's sharp Ostwendung the Wietze at Wietzendorf was out by a Flussanzapfung due to receding erosion for parallel, but deeper flowing Örtze.

In Wietzendorf opens as a main tributary the floodplain. Their right source stream, the Hötzinger Aue Springs, north of Stübeckshorn at a height of 98 m above mean sea level, and the Alvernsche Aue, who left the source stream, has its source northwest of Alvern in 86 m height. At the mouth of the floodplain exceeds the Wietze both water management, and at length ( 17.7 km to 12.0 km) and is therefore hydrologically the main strand of the Wietze River system.

East of Wietzendorf touched the river the place Reddingen and flows through the associated hamlet Halmern and Reiningen and past the farm Winter Hoff. Here the valley is sunk with gently sloping, wooded slopes about 30 feet into the surrounding undulating plateaus. Below Reiningen the river also runs short in the southern part of the training area south Munster. There flows from the left of the Reininger Moorgraben. At the level Reiningen NLWKN also operates a hydrographic measuring point for environmental data collection. Then the river turns again to the south and empties into weary in the Örtze.

The Wietze is a very clean river. She has throughout the waters of grade II moderately polluted ( betamesosaprob ). The water maintenance is up to the consumer association Örtze based in weary.