Efze

Condensed Efzequelle on Wilsberg

The Efze is a 38.2 km long, right-sided or southeasterly inflow of Schwalm in northern Hesse, Germany. It is according to the catchment area and runoff by far the largest tributary of the Schwalm.

Course

The Efze, part of the river system and the Weser river basin, rises in Knüllgebirge almost 2 km west of the not located at the Efze Schwarzenborn. Your source area is located on the Wilsberg ( 598 m above sea level. NN ) and Knüllköpfchen ( 633.8 m). The origin of the right source of Bach, the combined Efzequelle, located at 559 m above sea level. NN on the eastern flank of the Wilsberg, that of the left source Bach's approximately 850 m northeast of it south to about 562 m of the crumpled little head. A few hundred meters below both sources combine the headwaters in Knüll pond ( 537.1 m above sea level. NN ), whose eastern part is open for swimming.

From the pond the Efze flows southeast past Schwarzenborn and swings before the district Grebe Hagen, where the moat opens in a northerly direction. It flows through the crumpled Walder vilage Appenfeld where the brook joins Herget, Wallenstein, Völkershain where the Breitenbach opens the longest Efze inflow, Reddingshausen and Remsfeld.

After Remsfeld the Efze swings to the northwest and flows through the city Homberger parts Relbehausen and Holzhausen and then through the southern parts of the core city of Homberg ( Efze). Shortly thereafter, the east passed Homberger Caßdorf district where the Efze swings to the north, joins the Ohebach one. Thereafter, the flow is tangent to the Homberger Districts Mühlhausen and mountains where the Klingelbach opens, and then passes the 'next to Wabern lever.

Between located just off the river Waberner Unshausen districts in the east and in the west the Uttershausen Efze finally ends in the coming there from West southwest Eder inflow Schwalm.

Renaturation

By 2008, a restoration by creating riparian forests with flooding wells and the Durchgängigmachung of the weirs was above Homberg under the name Efze vital in the context of the Habitats project implemented by fish ladders.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​220.543 km ² Efze covers, one of which opens out below Homberg Ohe drained almost half, while all other inflows remain relatively small.

The following tributaries are worth mentioning:

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