Biber (Rhine)

Beavers at Ramsen

View from Buchemer Santis on the Bibertal in the Hegau, right paddle steamer in the

The Beaver joins the Rhine

The beaver is a small river on the border between Germany and Switzerland. The source is Watterdingen in the district of Konstanz in Baden- Württemberg. After about 24 km the river flows west of Beaver Hemishofen at the Beaver Mill in Canton Schaffhausen the Rhine. On the Upper Rhine route between Stein am Rhein and Schaffhausen the beaver is the largest tributary.

River

On their way to the Rhine, the beaver crossed three times the Swiss- German border. The Beavers source lies at the place Watterdingen in German Hegau. Then the beaver flows through the old town of Blumenfeld. There she falls over the flower fields waterfall. After Beuren the beaver united with the Riedgraben. After Büßlingen they crossed the border into Switzerland. There follow the municipalities Mayrhofen and beavers before the river by Thayngen, the capital of Reiat flows. Shortly after Thayngen leaves the beavers first again to Switzerland and flows through Bietingen and Randegg. Before the recent border crossing nor the village stream of Gottmadingen Coming flows into the Beaver. The last kilometer of the beaver flows through the upper part of the canton of Schaffhausen canton. According to the book community Ramsen follows. When Bibermuhle the beaver opens on Ramsemer municipality in the Rhein.

Rheinklingen and Bibermuhle, right above the river beaver

Beaver correction

In the flat used by the agriculture terrain between the book and the mouth of the Beaver occurred repeatedly over their banks. Therefore, the Canton of Schaffhausen led in the years 1902-1907 larger at Beaver river alterations in stages from. Many of the countless loops of the river were straightened. The excavated material of the new river course, the old river loops were filled.

Again Beaver in Beaver

Over 150 years ago, the beaver became extinct in the catchment area of the river, the beaver. Around the turn of the millennium, the animals have repopulated the beaver. First, the mouth region and the lower reaches of beavers was sequestrated. Then followed the river sections to Randegg / Bietingen. In 2005, then again found fresh signs of beavers in Mayrhofen and the community beavers. The settlement in Switzerland, it is thanks to them that the animals are moved from the Thur on the High Rhine into the middle reaches of the Beaver upstream.

• Rhine river system
• River in Europe
• River in Baden- Württemberg
• River in the canton of Schaffhausen
• Waters in the district of Konstanz
• Geography ( Hegau )