Essebach

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Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Esse stream is 11.6 km flow distance after Vocke Bach 's second longest and also a northern or right-side tributary of the Pfieffe in Osthessischen mountains in the north Hessian districts of Werra- Meißner and Schwalm -Eder.

Its catchment area covers 28.574 km ².

Course

The Esse creek rises in the western part of the Werra -Meißner -Kreis Werra - Fulda in the Highlands, part of Osthessischen highlands. Its source lies between the nucleus of hessian Lichtenau and its southern district Retterode at the former colliery Glimmerode to around 375 m above sea level. NN. Located just west of it lies the Hamberg ( 433.9 m ) to the deserted village of Oberndorf.

The mostly along the highway 487 running südsüdwestwärts in the Spangenberg sink as the limit of Melsunger mountains to the west and Stölzinger Mountains in the east chimney creek initially flows through the east of the Himmelberg ( 563.7 m), the highest elevation of Günsteröder height, situated village Retterode. Then it passes the former Walbachsmühle, today Good Walbachsmühle. He then runs south-east below the Pentersrück ( 562.2 m ), the second highest point in the Günsteröder height, in the Schwalm -Eder-Kreis through the village Schnellrode, a northern district of northeastern Spangenberg, and shortly after passing the Spangenberg Good Half the village.

Finally, the Esse stream reaches the B 487 temporarily leaving the Spangenberg core city in which it passes through the standing on the castle Schloss Spangenberg order after flowing through the district Elbersdorf, which borders on the core city and the castle hill, and after passing under the B 487 to lead to about 219 m in the east there coming about of Fulda inflow Pfieffe.