Aar (Twiste)

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The Aar, also called the upper reaches bell fountain, is a 13.9 km long, left-sided or western tributary of Twiste in Waldeck- Frankenberg in northern Hesse ( Germany ).

Course

The Aar rises in the Waldecker forest a few meters north of the border of Twistetal to Bad Arolsen. Your source is located in the parcel " Homberg " to around 360 m above sea level. NN on Twistetaler area between the farm Frede Ringshausen ( to Twistetal - Gembeck ) in the west-northwest, the treeless mass Hauser height ( 432.5 m above sea level. NN ) in the north, the wooded Kahlenberg ( 408.8 m above sea level. NN ) in the south and Mengeringhausen ( Bad Arolsen ) in the southeast.

The Aar flows Twistetal leaving, first eastward through Bad Arolsen field and to southeastward through a valley in which it takes you past the wooded elevations White stone (south) and Spielberg (north). Then the stream is dammed to form a small pond.

Thereafter, the Aar runs eastward for a while through agricultural area and then through Mengeringhausen where it is bridged by the railway line Warburg Sarnau and at the eastern edge of the highway 252. Then she makes in a tree- wooded slopes valley in which opens the approaching from the northwest flowing Thiele, tortuous an arc southeast to the core city of Bad Arolsen around. South of this river section is the amount of ring houses Hagen (also called On the Hagen; to 340.4 m above sea level. ) Where the training area Arolsen was until 2004 the Prinz-Eugen -Kaserne. After passing under the highway 450, the stream leaves the valley and takes in agriculturally used area coming from the west Bicke on.

Then the Aar flows through the district of Bad Arolsen Weather castle to the northeast of which about 1.1 km below the Twiste to about 192 m above sea level. NN to open into the Diemel inflow Twiste.

Excursions

Catchment and inflows

Among the tributaries of the Aar, whose catchment area covers 37.429 km ² belong with length and mouth position ( downstream considered ):

  • Thiele (7.2 km, 8.664 km ²) - left hand at Wetterburg
  • Bicke (also called Biek ) (6.8 km, 9.545 km ²) - left hand below Bad Arolsen

Towns

Villages on the Aar, these neighborhoods of Bad Arolsen ( downriver considered ):

  • Mengeringhausen
  • Wetterburg
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