Düte

Dütequelle

The Düte is a mountainous country waters. It rises on the southern slopes of the Teutoburg Forest on Hohnberg near the Grand Freeden in Bad Iburg.

Course

From its source between the shaft and the village of Bad Iburg the Düte over monastery Oesede runs, on the railway line along straightened up after Georgsmarienhütte happened Malbergen a sewage treatment plant and flows from there through a meadow valley over Hörne to Osnabrück. In Lotte it opens after a distance of about 35 km in the rabbit.

The left tributary of the Düte, the Schlochterbach, the triangle

Water structure quality

In the upper reaches to the stormwater retention basin at the monastery Oesede Düte runs on the first five kilometers largely to nature ( water quality class 1 to 3), in some cases significantly altered ( grade 4). In Oesede monastery, the structural quality changed to class 6 ( strongly altered ), in Georgsmarienhütte the cased laying under the premises of the steel plant to Class 7 ( completely changed ). North of Georgsmarienhütte the water situation then relaxed again.

Landscape

The upper Düte is characterized by unaltered, natural sections and short embankments. In narrow valleys Düte often passes through deciduous forest, otherwise dominated grassland in the floodplain and alders line the waters. The a -kilometer underground piping under the premises of the steel plant is a complete separation of the upper reaches of the lower reaches dar. The underflow itself then again has a natural running curvature that Düte meanders, usually lined with alders, through a meadow valley. In Horne, the Düte unbegradigt is bordered by wooded banks and the banks are only occasionally obstructed by riprap or other fasteners. Below Hellern the Düte is more strongly developed and partially straightened.

Nature reserve

In the landscape framework plan for the city of Osnabrück, the Düte is recommended as a potential conservation area. A revitalization concept in landscape plan Düte aims to develop the Düte to a natural watercourse so that the riverbed and floodplain can be habitat for a typical aquatic plant and animal world again. For this, the city of Osnabrück circa 47 ha available to be against surfaces that are needed for system of riparian zones and for the extensification of use in future flood zone, exchanged.