Bentgraben

The Bentgraben

The Bentgraben, referred to in the upper reaches in Leopoldshohe as Eselsbach, is a 4.2 km long, orographic left tributary of the river Werre in the northeast of the German Federal State of North Rhine -Westphalia.

He is not to be confused with the similarly Eselsbach said creek in the south of the municipality Leopoldshohe which flows mainly through Asemissen and flows Greste village in the wind drift.

Course

According to the State Survey Office NRW Bentgraben arises as Eselsbach in Leopoldshohe at an altitude of 120 m above sea level. NN flows directly to the K 1 From its origin from the creek to the northeast after Krentruper Hagen and feeds two small ponds. After the Bentgraben has ( Eselsbach ) Krentruper Hagen flowed through him a nameless tributaries from the field hook Heath initially flows to the right. Then flows from the right on some maps also designated initially as Pott Hauser Bach and in due course as " Bentgraben " Bach to. The from there to designated exclusively as " Bentgraben " Bach turns away from this point to the north and empties finally after a flow distance of 4.2 km at an altitude of only 83 m above sea level. NN east of Heipke on the edge of the nature reserve Heipker lake at KM 36.5 on the left into the Werre.

The creek drains a small part of the Ravens Berger hill country.

Tributary

The Bentgraben ( Eselsbach ) has the above inflow, which rises half a kilometer south-east and flows first north-east direction by Wedderburn 's will, Steinhagen and Pottenhausen, but in the course turns to the north and then at KM 1.6 in the Bentgraben ( Eselsbach ) opens.

According to the State Survey Office NRW this water has a length of 3.9 km and is nameless by the waters directories. In the topographic map DTK 10 is this creek that is nameless in the water directory, but referred to as " pot Hauser Bach" and later as " Bentgraben " in headwaters. It has a longer flow distance to the mouth of the Bentgraben ( Eselsbach ) completed as of Bentgraben ( Eselsbach ) itself