Antrift

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The Antrift, called the lower reaches Antreff, is a 38 km-long, left or south-westerly flow of Schwalm in Hesse, Germany.

Course

The river rises as Antrift in the Vogelsberg near the Schwalm- origin. Its source is located east of Stone head ( 496 m. Above sea level. NN. ) At about 430 m height between Lauter - Meiches and Feldatal wind Hausen.

The Antrift flows in south-north direction the Vogelsberg and happened pursuit village, Romrod (both city Romrod ) and the Alsfeld districts Billertshausen and Angenrod. Immediately below Angenrods it passes the data used as a flood retention basin reservoir, which is formed by the Antrifttalsperre. In the community Antrifttal Seibelsdorf flows through ( directly below the lake ), Ruhlkirchen and Bernburg.

At the county boundary from the Vogelsberg ( Giessen, Hesse -Darmstadt ) for Schwalm -Eder -Kreis ( Kassel) the Antrift leaves not only the Northern bird mountain foothills to enter the landscape Schwalm, but also changes its name to Antreff. In the community Willinghausen the capital, Merzhausen and Gungelshausen are traversed until the river finally empties into the left cell in the Schwalm. The places referred to had two years the provisional community Antrefftal formed at the time of the Hessian government reform in the 1970s, until it had gone up in the church today Willinghausen.

Characteristics

The Antrift remains until shortly before its confluence with a typical low mountain with relatively high gradient. On their last 10 kilometers ( immediately below Bernburgs until the mouth ) it still falls by as much as 26 meters in altitude, while the Schwalm has on their last 10 kilometers upstream of the mouth of the Antreff only about half the bed slope ( 1.2 ‰ and 12 m) and already fallen very low and constant from Alsfeld is.

In addition to the west of the Rhine -Weser watershed for ohms ( system Lahn / Rhein ) draining small, it represents the main river in the Northern Vogelsberg - foreland

Tributaries

The location between the left side, immediately adjacent Rhine -Weser watershed on the one hand and the right-sided parallel Schwalm other hand, requires that almost all tributaries of Antrift be very brief.

In pursuit of the village Bach opens in pursuit village (3.0 km, 4.5 km ² catchment area ) from the right, above Romrods follows from the left of the Seebach ( 3.5 and 4.7 km, 4 km ²), of the low - Breidenbach lies and surrounds along with his outfall top Breidenbach.

In Romrod the Ocherbach flows to (4.7 km, 8.4 km ²) from the left, two and a half miles below the city of Antrift flows from the left in Göringer Bach ( 11.7 km, 17.6 km ² ), it by far the largest tributary to where the district Zell.

Immediately below Bernburgs opens the stream from Neudtädter Eck ( 2.6 and 3.2 km, 5.2 km ²) of the left; Merzhausen opens the Fischbach (5.4 km, 9.6 km ²), located on the Alsfeld - fishing stream from the right.

No tributary of the Antreff is the coming of the Willing houses districts Wasenberg and Leimbach Leimbach. This flows namely Loshausen directly in the Schwalm, after he almost touches the mouth during the Antreff only 100 meters left-side distance.