Drepte

Over the Drepte from the headwaters in the Langeheide to the mouth of the Weser

The Drepte is a small right tributary of the Weser River, which rises in the Long heath north of Osterholz- Beck in the forest region of Elm.

The Langeheide is the headwaters of numerous streams Geest, all belonging to the river system of the Weser.

The Drepte flows from there into the town Garlstedt where they drove the historic watermills Brockmann mills. About Wulsbüttel, Hagen in Bremen and Driftsethe, a place for the Drepte was eponymous, it flows as a river meadow by the municipalities of Copenhagen in Bremen and Loxstedt in Cuxhaven. In Dreptersiel, about 10 kilometers south of the city limits of Bremerhaven, the Drepte finally empties into the Weser, a few kilometers south of the Weser addition the river Lune.

From the road bridge of the old B 6 in Garlstedt to the mouth of the Weser, the Drepte measures 26.5 km from the source region to the mouth of about 34 kilometers.

The water of the Drepte only in their upper reaches good quality ( grade II: moderately polluted ). From Driftsethe to the mouth of the water quality drops to Class II -III: critically loaded.