Ems (Eder)

Ems bridge (from 1824) in Obervorschütz

The EMS is a 34 km-long, left-sided or western tributary of the Eder. It runs in the district of Kassel, in the Schwalm - Eder district in northern Hesse.

Course

The river rises in the nature park Hawk Forest. One of their first inflows is the Bach " Kotwelle " which on the eastern outskirts of Martin Hagen, a district of looking castle, rises and flows southeastward for about Schauenburger district of Breitenbach; measured from the origin of the river Ems length of 34 km. Your actual source lies only on the eastern outskirts of the village of Breitenbach at Emserhof to around 370 m above sea level. NN; from there the EMS is about 33.6 km long.

Initially, the Ems flows through Breitenbach, where after passing the cemetery opens the coming of Martin Hagen Kotwelle. Below Breitenbach, the river passes through the former Ems - mill, then in a slightly south-westerly direction, parallel to the railway line Kassel -Naumburg (on which the service is carried Hessencourrier ), passing to flow in old quarries. After inflow of " Bach by Martin Hagen ", which is fed from the estuary near " Molkenborn " which runs through a narrow gorge cut Ems and then the far east located Falkenstein Castle and the old castle happens.

Then she reached Bad Emstal where you sand the coming of the Northwest " Fischbach " flows in the district. After flowing through the bath Emstaler hamlet Merxhausen it is spanned by the possibly was built in 1756 " Elector bridge ". Further downstream the flow coming from the direction of Elbenberg, a district of Naumburg, from the west "Imagine Bach" and in the East coming of weighting village, a suburb of Niedenstein, " Wiehoff " one. After that happened the Ems standing in a wooded area White Thalmühle.

Then the EMS reaches the Niedensteiner Kirchberg district, where it leaves the nature park Hawk Forest and first of coming from the east from the direction of Niedensteiner district Metze Bach " Matzoff " and then that of the eastern flank of the background mountain ( 420.4 m) between the bath Emstaler district Riede and the Fritzlarer district wages from the west coming " Sombach " open out. When exiting from Kirchberg it passes the Wartberg (306 m), the main habitat of Neolithic Wartberg culture. Not far south of the mountain opens the zoom flowing from wages in the West " Romme Born", and immediately thereafter, the Ems between wages and the Gudensberger district peers crosses under the main road 3218th Approximately 400 m to the south leads from the east of coming from the same " Rosenbach " in the Ems. From that branches off just before its confluence with a mill stream to the south, the west to its eastern side at the corpse head ( 265 m) accompanied by and after about 500 m at the western foot feeds the Ems which is only about 50 m east of the Ems lying Equal mill.

While the Ems now continue meanders in a generally southerly direction to Gudensberger district Dorla, the mill trench takes on the southern edge of the corpse head again water from the immediately adjacent at this point Ems and then oscillates around the southern edge of the corpse head ( at the now deserted March mill ) to East. He turns then to the other 350 m south again to, takes just north of Gudensberger district Dorla in today also mistimed Old Mill coming from the east small " Weissenborn Bach " and then opens after a long-drawn- loop to the west immediately after passing the Bickmühle on northwestern outskirts of Dorla back into the Ems.

The river then runs over a length of about 750 m to the southwest, where it passes through the mill weirs. Then she makes a left turn to continue to flow to the east. They passed under the federal highway 49 and then flows past the northern outskirts of the city Fritzlarer part Werkel, after which they, after left-sided open out the " Dorler Bach ", flows past the Hille - mill and the new mill. Then the Ems passed the Gudensberger district Obervorschütz and Felsberger district Niedervorschütz and takes the water coming from the Gudensberger district maggots in the Northwest " Goldbach's " on.

Finally, the Ems flows through the Felsberger district Böddiger and happens to the mountain Böddiger the northernmost vineyard in Hesse. A few kilometers further opens the Ems after crossing the " Ederauenwegs " coming from the west to about 150 m above sea level. NN in the approaching flowing from the south Fulda inflow Eder.

Watershed

The headwaters of the river Ems is located near the watershed between Diemel and Eder, a part of the Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide. The waters of the Ems, the direction of flows in a predominantly south-easterly, runs through Eder and Fulda in the Weser, while that in most northern directions flows of heat, which rises on the other side of the plateau to Martin Hagen on the Diemel into the Weser.

Tributaries and catchment area

The catchment area of the river Ems is 146.214 km ². Its tributaries include with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, Mündungsort with Emsflusskilometer and - if known - catchment size ( downriver considered ):

• Bach by Martin Hagen (r; 2.9 km; mündungsnah fed by Molkenborn ) below Breitenbach (near km 30,25 ), 3.143 km ²
• Fischbach ( r, 3.8 km), Bad Emstal sand (near km 24,75 ), 6.346 km ²
• Parking Bach (r; 4.3 km ) below bath Emstal - Merxhausen (near km 21.35 ), 5.321 km ²
• Wiehoff ( l; 8.7 km ) below Merxhausen (near km 20.8 ), 15.27 km ²
• Matzoff ( l; 7 km), in Niedenstein -Kirchberg (near km 17.3 ), 14.028 km ²
• Romme Born ( r; 2.2 km ) below Kirchberg (near km 15,85 ), 4.366 km ² Bruchbach ( l, 1,8 km), Romme Born inflow below Kirchberg (near Romme Born- km 0.85)

Towns

Villages on the Ems ( downriver considered ):

• Breitenbach (municipality part of Schauenburg )
• Sand ( part of municipality Bad Emstal )
• Merxhausen ( part of municipality Bad Emstal )
• Kirchberg (district of Niedenstein )
• Dorla (district of Gudensberg )

• Werkel (district of Fritzlar )
• Obervorschütz (district of Gudensberg )
• Niedervorschütz (district of Felsberg )
• Böddiger (district of Felsberg )

History

1688 was the abundance of fish Ems by Matthäus Merian the Elder. described in the " Tropographia Germaniae ": " This is what Ampt gerheilet through the middle of the river starcken Embs a very handsome fish water and extends to the hawk forest. "