Dautphe

The Dautphe is a 8.8 km long right tributary of the Lahn in western Central Hesse, Germany. It runs completely in the district of the municipality Dautphetal, which is named after her.

The Valley of Dautphe below the source curve is a side valley of the Lahn and part of the natural region Upper Lahn Valley.

Course

Headwaters

The Dautphe rises in the north of the Gladenbacher mountain country, in the northeast of the so-called Bottenhorner plateaus that form the height of center of gravity.

The two source streams, of which the western is the nominal, spring south of Holzhausen on the northwest edge of the 552 m high Daubhaus in the so-called Lord forest. Both flow in a northeasterly to northerly direction and unite south of Holzhausen and west of this place eponymous, 504 m high Hünstein.

In Holzhausen Dautpe the left takes on two other streams close to the source, from which comes the first of the south-western edge of the 520 m high Hilsberges and the second is from the north-northwest subsequent, well 540 m high Schlossberg. Both streams already unite just before its confluence with the Weinbach. Other tributaries flow added from both sides.

Middle reaches along the B 453

In Amelose where the route of the riverine henceforth B is reached 453, flows from the right immediately before the left side fed from the basement Kaltenbach from the direction Herzhausen. These rivers come, like all other right-hand tributaries below Holzhausen, of the so-called Damshäuser crests that attach themselves to the east Dautphetal.

In Mornshausen the Dautphe absorbs the inflowing from left Bolzebach whose source is located at the saddle between the striking, 520 m high Bolzeberg and the subsequent north, to 498 m high iron heads. To the north of these mountains flattens the country and the plateaus beyond the Breidenbacher reason, in which also the second opening into Mornshausen river that of Silberg (source Bach " dizziness Bach" ) and Hommertshausen coming Fortenbach, has his sources.

Underflow

A little further north turns the course of Dautphe from north to northeast. The coming of foothills of the Black Mountain Lautzebach flows from left, after he had immediately before the municipal seat Dautphe framed southwest.

Once in peace village from the right coming from the north slope of the 465 m high Eichelhardt Belzerbach is gemündet that Dautphe of this place flows north from the right in the Lahn.

Key data

The Dautphe is a watercourse III. Order. From the height of the source region ( 493 m) to the mouth of the Lahn (245 m) it leaves a path of 8.8 kilometers and a height difference of 248 m behind. This corresponds to an average gradient of 2.8%.

With a catchment area of ​​about 42 square kilometers, the Dautphe comes to an outflow ( MQ ) of about 530 l / s and thus leads almost as much water as the adjacent from the source here, however, flowing southeast Allna ( 665 l / s), the has a more than twice as large catchment area (92 km ²).

In still closer to the Dautphequelle than those of the Allna is the perf tributary home stream.

Tributaries

The following tributaries flow of Dautphe to: