Afte

The Afte in Buren

The Afte ( hereinafter referred to as the upper and middle reaches also Wiele ) is a 24.394 km long, orographic right-hand or eastern tributary of the Alme in the district of Paderborn, North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ).

Geography

Course

The Afte rises in the eastern part of Westphalia at the interface of Paderborn Plateau in the north and in the south Sintfeld. Your source is located about 3 km southeast of the village Helmern ( Bad Wünnenberg ) near the A 44 you located (according to German base map ) just north of the " Dalheimer road " ( county road "K 20") in addition to the 364.8 m above sea. NN intersection located on the access road for about 450 m south " Eggenhof ".

From its origin the Afte flows in its upper course as often dry lying roads or dirt road ditch in predominantly south-westerly direction to and through the " Goll Taler reason," in which the flood retention basin is Goll Taler reason and then through the " Ringel reason," according to the coming from the southeast Karpke opens.

Then the Afte runs westward through Bad. North of downtown, it flows past with a branching off from their own mill stream at the former mill spark. After crossing the B 480 opens at the former Franz mill which is at the " collective field", the one mainly from the south coming Aabach and west of the " lower city " coming from the south Golmeke.

Until the aforementioned confluence of Aabachs the Afte is also called " Wiele ", where the so- hot end section of the river is considered in addition to the aforementioned Karpke well as the source of the brook Afte.

The Afte flows from Bad Wunnenberg within the Sintfelds in predominantly west-northwest direction. After picking out a further mill stream, that leads to a former sawmill, it passes a water treatment plant and flows through a little later Leiberg ( Bad Wünnenberg ) in which you accrue to match that of the north -flowing Olweke and a little later the coming of the south Faulegrundsbach. Slightly below Leibergs opens out from the south of Söhlbach.

Gradually the Afte turns to the northwest to southwest directly past Hegendorf to flow ( to Buren ). During the subsequent Keddinghausen ( to Hegendorf ) is the flood retention basins Keddinghausen, which was created after the floods in 1965. In its course to the southern border town of Buren the Afte runs - in particular apart from straightening the upper reaches - largely in their natural river bed and meanders through its small valley. Then the Afte flows through the nucleus of Buren, was in the straightened their course and been lowered.

A little after passing the Bürener downtown, which passes through the Afte east, empties the Afte in the current flowing from the south approach lip inflow Alme.

Inflows

These are the largest tributaries of the Afte in order from the source to the mouth ( called respectively the length in kilometers, orographic situation, Mündungsort and mouth height in meters above mean sea level ):

  • Karpke (11 km), left tributary before Bad Wünnenberg (approx. 470 m)
  • Aabach ( 14.276 km ), left tributary in Bad Wünnenberg (approx. 460 m)
  • Golmeke (2.8 miles), left tributary in Bad Wünnenberg (265 m)
  • Olweke (1.2 km), right tributary in Leiberg (256 m)
  • Faulegrundsbach (3.2 miles), left tributary in Leiberg on (250 m)
  • Söhlbach (2.7 miles), left tributary below Leibergs (247 m)
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