Dill (river)

The dill in Dillenburg, looking towards the upstream, in the background Untertor

The source of dill

The dill is a 55 km long, orographic right or northern tributary of the Lahn in Central Hesse, Germany.

Geography

Source

The dill springs about 1.8 km north- west of Offdilln on the southeast slope of Haincher height at an altitude of 567 m above sea level. NHN. She has only a very small catchment area, as it originates high on the ridge- Rothaarkamm here. Hence, even the low bulk quantity. The Dill source is generously taken in by a wall of sand stones, and next to the source is a stone with the inscription ' Dill- source ' embedded in the ground. When Dill source is probably a layer source.

Course

The Dill flows through lent their name to the Lahn- Dill-Kreis on Dillenburg and Herborn in a southerly direction. After 55 km, it flows to 147 m above sea level. NHN in Wetzlar in the Lahn. The case surmounted height difference of 420 m corresponds to an average bed slope of 7.6 ‰.

The dill has given many places on her run her name; so there is at the headwaters of the places Offdilln, Dillbrecht and Fellerdilln. Rodenbach is the crossing point where the Rossbach unites with the dill and by turning direction Dillenburg at the city Haiger; The latter was county town of the former Dill circle and former residence of the House of Nassau - Orange. The rest of the dill via Herborn to Wetzlar, where it flows into the River Lahn.

Tributaries

The dill, the second longest and 9513.9 l / s water-rich tributary of the Lahn, flow to numerous, sometimes very short tributaries. Longest tributary is the Dietzhölze with a length of 23.8 km. The eagle has 148.756 km ², however, the much larger catchment area and just a greater average discharge.

The following are the major tributaries are called the orographic position and height of the mouth, the river length, the size of the catchment area, the average annual runoff and the water code. The order of the entries is done from the source to the mouth. ( Dashes inserted for a better overview and to sort downriver are in the DGKZ digits after the 2584 - - dill! )

(* Catchment area roughly estimated )

River length

For the dill is often given as length 68 km, as in Meyers encyclopedia from 1885 to 1892 as well as in numerous recent lexicons. This is, however, a false statement, as can be understood by means of the deployment points of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology.

Traffic

Parallel to Dilltal have important traffic arteries, including the BAB 45, the federal highway 277 and the dill path of the circuit.