Exter (Weser)

The Exter in Almena

The Exter is a 26.1 km long, orographic left or southern tributary of the Weser river in North Rhine-Westphalia Lippe and Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

It gave its name to the 1969 newly founded community Extertal whose area corresponds to a majority of their approximately 108.7 km ² large catchment area.

Course

The Exter rises in the eastern part of the circle lip in Teutoburg Forest Nature Park / Eggegebirge. Your source located in the municipality Barntrup 1 km west-southwest from the center of the northern hamlet Alverdissen in agriculturally used area to 279 m above sea level. NN.

Directly below its origin flows through the Exter a small pond, then to proceed eastward to and through Alverdissen. There, it flows through three ponds, the bottom two hot Mente pond and Torteich. Then she wraps around the grounds of the castle Alverdissen. The village she leaves to the northwest, then northward in the municipality of Extertal in the district of Asmissen past the farm Ullenhausen, the hamlet Eimke and the small Asmissener nucleus, the High Asch located east passing, to and through Bösingfeld, the Extertaler nucleus, to run. There she takes only the light coming from the southwest Beeke and the east flowing Aschbach.

Below Bösingfeld runs the Exter, after left-sided open out of the sell of Bach and the right-sided Siekbachs north- westwards through Nalhof and happens further north to left-sided open out of Koller Bach, Almena. After that flows from the southwest, take the Alme one. East of the situated slightly away from the Bach Silixen where he is border to Lower Saxony and happened two larger ponds, discharges from a south-southwest of Laßbach.

In Lower Saxony, Schaumburg and at the same time both in the nature park Weser mountain country Schaumburg -Hameln as well as in the urban area of ​​Rinteln tangent to the Exter, after left-sided inflow of Wemke, east Krankenhagen and then west Uchtdorf. Thereafter, it flows through Exten where the north-north- westward aspiring New Exter branches.

Finally, the Exter flows northeast of the old town of Rinteln to 60 m above sea level. NN in the there, coming after a bend in the river, east of the Weser.

Traffic

Through the valley of the Exter Extertal road was built from 1968 to 1969 and built until 1927 Extertalbahn, which was operated from the beginning electrically and is used today as a tourist trolley line runs.

Footnotes

• Weser river system
• River in Europe
• River in North Rhine -Westphalia
• River in Lower Saxony
• Waters in the district of Lippe
• Extertal