Elbe (Eder)

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The Elbe is a 33.7 km long, orographic left, northern tributary of the Eder in Waldeck- Frankenberg, Kassel district and Schwalm- Eder-Kreis, North Hesse, Germany. The quite water-rich river flows mainly in the hawk forests mountains and part of the river system in the Weser.

Course

The Elbe rises in the Waldeck- Frankenberg. Your source is located in the Long Forest, part of the Waldecker forest, about 5 km southwest of Freienhagen, a northern district of Waldeck, and about 1 km to the west outside the Natural Park Hawk Forest. It is located between the mountains Heitzelberg ( 467.4 m above sea level. NN ) in the northwest and Rabenkopf ( 446.1 m above sea level. NN ) in the southeast to about 413 m above sea level. NN.

In a forest region the same initially flows in a northeasterly direction, while after 650 m in the Long Rod in the district of Kassel and nature park Hawk Forest a. After passing through the Hasenmühle and open out the light coming from the left George trench bends in the village Ippinghausen, a southern district of Wolf Hagen, right around the wooded basalt cone of Weidelsbergs ( 492.3 m above sea level. NN ) with the Weidelsburg. They only runs parallel to the main road 251, which then passes below the village and beyond it again.

Thereafter, the Elbe, the moonlight mill flows passing, opens in a southerly direction into the forest -lined valley near Naumburg, getting into the core city of the West from the Waldecker forest of Rehmbach. Below the city opens with the coming of the north from the center of the hawk forests highlands Spolebach one her most important inflows. Then she touches the western district of Naumburg Elbenberg. South of the village flows a tributary of the West in Harth- mill. Subsequently, the same runs east past the Naumburg Altendorf district. A few kilometers south it passes the location, in a loop of the river deserted Beltershausen with the Postal Beltershausen and then the terminal on the rear goats sandstone rock giant stone.

A little further south by the Elbe runs temporarily the border to the Schwalm -Eder -forming, the background mountain. Hawk Forest Nature Park is leaving it reaches, after right-sided open out of Roden Borns, Zuschen, a district of Fritzlar. Subsequently, the flow first passes through a number of fish ponds and a little to open out of the small Lohbachs the Donarquelle and shortly thereafter the paper mill. At the grist mill he reached the village of Geismar, also a district of Fritzlar. Finally, the Elbe flows south of Geismar and west of Fritzlar at Porta Hassiaca in the Eder. Your on about 174 m above sea level. NN located south of the mouth opposite rises the Bueraberg.

Watershed

The headwaters of the Elbe is located on the Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide, that is, that the Elbe, which flows in a southerly direction, drained by Eder and Fulda in the Weser, while the Watter, on the other side of the rises in Heitzelberg up to 467.4 m high mountain ridge, flows over Twiste and Diemel into the Weser.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​the Elbe is 123.47 km ². Its tributaries include with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, Mündungsort with Elbe river kilometer and - if known - catchment size ( downriver considered ):

  • George Trench ( l; 5.6 km ), at Ippinghausen, from the west (near km 29.4 ), 8.349 km ²
  • Rehmbach (r; 4.2 km ), in Naumburg, from the west (near km 21.7 ), 8.907 km ²
  • Spolebach ( l; 12.1 km ), below Naumburg, from the north (near km 18.9 ), 25.919 km ²
  • Tributary at Harth- mill (r; 4.1 km ), at Elbenberg, of West southwest (near km 16.6 ), 5.039 km ²
  • Roden Born ( r, 1.3 miles) above Zuschen, from the west (near km 9.1 ), 3.627 km ²
  • Lohbach ( l, 0.9 miles) below Zuschen, from the northeast (near 6.25 km ), 3.569 km ²

Towns

The towns along the Elbe ( downriver considered ):

  • Ippinghausen (district of Wolf Hagen)
  • Naumburg ( city)
  • Elbenberg ( with Elves and Elbersberg; district of Naumburg )
  • Altendorf (district of Naumburg )
  • Zuschen (district of Fritzlar )
  • Geismar (district of Fritzlar )
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