Benfe (Eder)

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The Benfe is just 11.2 km long right and southern tributary of the Eder in the district of Siegen -Wittgenstein, North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ).

Course

The Benfe rises and runs Rothaargebirge Nature Park. Your source is located in the southeastern part of the Rothaargebirge near the iron road about 560 m east-southeast of the hiking parking Eder source ( approximately 655 m above sea level. NHN ). In a wooded area it is located 2.5 km west-southwest of Benfe, a municipality part of Erndtebrück and about 700 m south-southwest of the city on Ederkopf Eder source to approximately 620 meters.

The Benfe first runs - wooded area gradually leaving - to the east of the village Benfe to flow around this and also hunting mountain ( 634.5 m) to the east in a long curve to the left. From then on she runs northwards through a narrow, fringed by forested mountains and little inhabited valley, where they ( 675.9 m ) in the west and Ebschloh ( 686.3 m) takes you past the mountains Supreme Henn in the east. In this area of ​​the creek, which has a relatively low gradient and is straightened in sections, in the direction of the same core location of the community Erndtebrück to 2.5 km flow path meanders some forms.

Finally, the Benfe reach the village Erndtebrück, where it flows about 100 m after passing under the B 62 to about 470 m altitude in the current flowing from the southwest zoom headwaters of Eder ( tributary of the Fulda). This overcomes the Benfewasser from the source to the mouth, which is located between the Eder river kilometers 164.2 and 164.3, about 150 m altitude.

Catchment and inflows

Among the tributaries of the Benfe whose catchment area is about 19.5 square kilometers include, brook downward considered: (l = left side, R = right side, with river length )

  • Lützelbach ( l, 1.6 miles)
  • Beierbach ( l; 1.45 km )
  • Dörnbach ( l, 3.6 miles)
  • Seebach ( l; 3.25 km )
  • Hack Bracht ( l, 1.1 miles)
  • Bear Creek ( l, 0.9 miles)
  • Rammelsbach (r, 1.5 miles)

Towns

Villages on the Benfe are ( bach downward considered ):

  • Benfe
  • Erndtebrück

Footnotes

  • River system Eder
  • River in Europe
  • River in North Rhine -Westphalia
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