Böhme (river)

The mean Böhmetal ( above Bad Fallingbostel )

The Boehme is the most water and longest right tributary of the Aller. At a length of 71 kilometers, it runs through the county, mostly in the south-west Heidekreis, Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

Course

The Bohemian springs on the southwestern edge of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park in Pietzmoor. She leaves her headwaters southwest of the town of Schneverdingen southbound and crossed after about 15 kilometers, the town of Soltau. Later, she runs a short distance along the north western boundary of the training area of Bergen- Hohne and crosses the town centers of Dorfmark and Bad Fallingbostel. Above Walsrode it forms the north-west great circle, which Böhme knee and finally reached after stretched southwestern course slightly below the small community Böhme ( between Ahlden and Rethem ) the Aller.

Description

The Boehme is the westernmost of the larger rivers of the South Heath. Unlike the latter, it is marked in the middle reaches between Dorfmark and Walsrode by a relatively narrow valley, with the highlight being the 40 m high bluffs of Fallingbosteler Lieth. ( Become unrecognizable by sand mining ) The question at the end of the 19th century incipient tourist appreciation of the valley is reflected in local names such as " Honer Dinger Switzerland " and " Böhmeschlucht ". It was based initially on the scenic unit with the small mountain liable Falkenberg - terminal moraine with the megalithic tombs of the seven stone houses and the former recreation facility Achterberg, today in the Bergen- Hohne Military Training Area. Currently dominated beside the Kurbetrieb in Bad Fallingbostel excursion traffic, especially for Walsrode Bird Park and Lönsgrab in Walsrode, the largest city of Böhmetals.

This area also is called Heidmark of locally increased population density, partly because more fertile soils of the local Lehmheiden, but essentially a result of the early industrialization in Bomlitz (at the same tributary of the Bohemian).

The upper part of the valley is typical expansive and for the southern Lüneburg Heath. Here the Böhme springs from several previous Torfkuhlen in rewetted Pietzmoor to Schneverdingen. The main town in the upper reaches of the road and railway junction Soltau, a city of similar centrality as Walsrode and touristy known by the Heide-Park north of the city.

Below Walsrode the valley widens abruptly the Aller glacial valley on a wooded schwemmfächerartigen Talsandebene.

The water has nearly continuous Class II: moderately polluted. Only a few short sections in the area of Soltau and Walsrode, the grade II -III: critically polluted on ..

Hydrology

The Boehme how many heath rivers a very balanced annual cycle of runoff. The seasonal significantly more fluctuating groundwater recharge rate ( essentially determined by the ratio of precipitation and evaporation ) is compensated by the high storage volume of glacial and fluvio-glacial Saalian sediments from which the hills and plateaus exist on both sides of Böhmetals.

Mean Monatsabflüssel ( in m³ / s) at the level Brock (Height: 39.4 m, catchment area 285 km ², based on figures from 1961 to 1989 )

Tributaries

• Soltau ( opens from right in the center of the town of Soltau )
• Große Aue ( flows through the Heide Park Soltau and flows from left south of the town of Soltau in the only slightly larger Böhme )
• Fish Strand Bach ( drains the highest parts of the Falkenberg - terminal moraine and flows from the left on the southern edge of town location Dorfmark )
• Steinbach ( opens in blocked, mountainous way a seemingly stream bed from the left)
• Bomlitz (the largest tributary of the Böhme, joins from the right side of the recreation area Eibia - Lohheide between Bomlitz and Walsrode )
• Warnau (second largest tributary, flows 1 km below the Bomlitz from right at the Hünenburg by picturesque bluffs route)
• Rieselbach ( flows through the Walsrode Bird Park and flows from right)
• Fulde ( drains the Groundless Moor and flows in Walsrode south of the monastery lake in the Bohemian)
• Jordan Bach ( drains the large Vehmsmoor and flows from right at Altenboitzen a )

Towns

One of the towns on the Böhme include:

• Lifter
• Wolterdingen
• Soltau
• Dorfmark
• Vierde
• Bad Fallingbostel
• Uetzingen
• Honer things
• Walsrode
• Bohemian

The river is named after the city Böhmetal that should be made ​​now after failed plan for 2011 through cities merger of the three former municipalities Bomlitz, Bad Fallingbostel and Walsrode.

Economy and Transport

The current economic development of the Böhmetals is significantly influenced by the favorable traffic situation near the motorway triangle Walsrode in the intersection of the basins of Bremen, Hamburg and Hannover determined ( logistics company, excursion traffic ) and continue by industry, mainly in Bomlitz ( Walsrode Industrial Park, Dow Wolff cellulosics, Wipak ) and Bad Fallingbostel ( main work of Kraft Foods in Europe).

Follow the course of Boehme in mostly small distance the A7, the B209 and already since 1890 the Heidebahn. End cross rail lines less important are the so-called America Line and the railway line Bomlitz Walsrode.

Reception

The local poet Hermann Lons writes about the Boehme:

"Wonderful wonderful it is here to Maytime, with yellow lilies bloom on the shore bays of Boehme and the Yellow Mountain Wagtails fly over the flood, and summer day when the Böhme the wreath of forget wears [ ... ] adorn the roadsides in all flower colors and the garden bunting from the high Hängebirke her little wistful ditty sings; then you get to understand what is Haidhunger, [ ... ] "