Aabach (Afte)

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The Aabach (also called Aa ) is a nearly 14.276 km long, orographic left or south-westerly flow of Afte in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany.

Course

The Aabach rises in the Sauerland approximately 6.5 km north of the border between Hesse Brilon in the west and Mars mountain in the East on the eastern edge of the Brilon plateau not far from the interface to the northern Sintfeld. Its source is located approximately one kilometer northwest of the center of Brilon district Madfeld, about 650 m southeast of the treeless hilltop Hogesknapp ( 482.8 m above sea level. NN ) and about 900 m northeast of the lightly wooded hilltop Stemmel ( about 505 m above sea level. NN ) to about 460 mm in height.

(. Approximately 445 m above sea level ) to its origin and after flowing through a small pond on the " wrong track " tunneled the Aabach to approximately 200 m in length, a residential area in the northern part of Madfeld and then a field site to - again emerged, and after flowing through a water treatment plant - direction to flow in a north-easterly by the maximum 498.7 m (mountain bride light) high landscape of Madfelder Forest, where it passes through the extreme northern foothills of the nature park Diemelsee and flows through the " nature reserve Aabachtal ".

In this forest enrich landscape - between Madfelder forest in the west and Fürstenberger forest in the east - open into the Aabach coming from the south " Aue " (in the " Aagrund " ) and a little further bach down the approaching from the southeast flowing Large Aa and slightly to the north of West coming torrents Rembruchssiepen and Schnadesiepen a. Below the confluence of the latter bears the Bach Aabach loud German base map - named this Aabach tributary - the name " Great Aa " or " Big Aabach ".

Nature Park Diemelsee flows leaving the Aabach further north, then joins in the " Nature Reserve Large Aa " in the pre-dam of the small Aabachstausees ( 345.7 m) to the south angliedert on the south arm of the reservoir. Then the Aabach flows through the actual reservoir, which lies at the interface between Brilon Plateau in the south-west and the north, and between Sintfeld Bad Wünnenberg in the north - northwest and Mars mountain in the southeast in a forested landscape. Within this reservoir the Aabach flow to the current flowing from the southwest zoom streams Murmecke and Haßbach addition to coming from the southeast little Aa.

Below the dam the Aabachstausees the Aabach runs in a north - north-westerly direction through a fringed by wooded valley elevations, where it receives the waters of the rivers coming from the southwest heath Bring stream and forest stream.

Finally reached the Aabach Bad Wunnenberg, in which he paddles past the pond flows in the park and later bends westward to ultimately lead to the former Franz mill in the coming from the east - north-east Afte ( Wiele ).

Watershed

The headwaters of the Aabachs lies on the Rhine -Weser watershed. This means that the water of the Aabachs, which flows to the northeast, west - north-westerly direction into the Rhine drained mainly about Afte, Alme and lip, while that of the small rivers that originate on the south side of the ridge, in a predominantly north-easterly direction flows into the Weser on Hopp corner and Diemel.