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The Horny Bach ( also the Horny, called in the middle reaches Döllbach or Doell, in the lower reaches Mombach and earlier Horny houses water) is about 8.6 km long, right or western tributary of Ahna in the independent city of Kassel in northern Hesse ( Germany ).

Course

Source: The river originates as stream Horny ( Horny ) in the northeast part of the High hawk forests on the slopes of mountain chicken ( 496 m above sea level. ) And Worm Mountain ( 485 m) to Kassel- Harleshausen gehörendem forest area. Its headwaters located in the context of two ponds (approx. 340 m) north-northeast beneath the Blue Lake (approx. 362 m ) and thus south of the alder hole (approx. 342 m); Both are created after the completion of basalt mining mining lakes. Located on the lower pond forest road overpass under which the source close Horny flows, lies on 339 m height.

Headwaters: The beginning Horny Bach called stream flows exclusively in eastern directions: After leaving the hawk forest, in passing under the Rasenallee ( 293.4 m), the stream runs through some fields where he north passing through the western residential areas of the Kassel district Harleshausen; there a little to the north of the creek located street called Am Horny Bach and something beyond carry agricultural land the name ( The ) Horny Feld; there was once Geilhausen ( deserted ). Then, crossing the creek, immediately after open out of receiving water Horny Bach, the Wolfhager Road ( Federal Road 251, about 230 m), and a little below it opens out of the oven ditch.

Directly after that happened Horny underground Harleshäuser the swimming pool ( outdoor), to then flow through built-up areas of Harleshausen. Here, the Kubergraben opens a, which passes under the creek, the upper Vellmar road (about 209 m). After passing the cemetery Harleshäuser Horny forms in the camp and to the workshop of the Deutsche Bahn, the border of the district of Kassel, Virgin head. Against this DB work it flows through a 30-m long stream tunnel (about 182 m), which performs under the railway line Kassel- Warburg. Then it meanders to about 650 m flow path through a natural and in the lower part lined by a small forest lowlands between Harleshausen and Virgin head. Thereafter, the Horny long tunnel channeling (approx. 175 m) flows by the northern passage of the eco-estate (on the road On the water tower), in which around 485 m (straight line ) under the DB work and among other things, under the high-speed line Hannover -Kassel and Würzburg through.

Middle course: located in his or east beyond the DB work the middle reaches where the creek, located at the Industrial Park Midfield Mercedes -Benz plant in Kassel south happens, the watercourse in Rothenditmold Döllbach ( Doell ) is called. In this district of Kassel, it flows, after passing under the 100 m long bridge of Gelnhäuser road, below the Rothenbergs (about 190 m), on which the Marienkrankenhaus Kassel is, through the narrow Döllbachaue, of which the lower part of 2006-2008 was renatured and to the north, connects near the creek, which Rothenberg Park. After near the junction ( 157.7 m) of Mombachstraße of the Wolfhager road befindlichem passing under the last-mentioned road flows the brook north along the Mombachstraße towards Schöfferhofstraße to between two streets for a while before the 100 m long bridge ( converted both roads ) the Wolfhager road finally disappearing into a tunnel channeling.

Underflow: In this tunnel channeling of Doell (Northern Town ) runs under the district of North Holland through. In the tunnel opens directly after the bridge the Wolfhager road under the junction ( 156.3 m) of Schöfferhofstraße in the Mombachstraße the last approach from the west flowing and previously also underground running Angersbach one.

From the Angersbach - mouth to say the creek Mombach. As such, it flows underground between the main cemetery in the north of Kassel and Kassel Lower Town railway station in the south always along the Mombachstraße. Underground he crosses the intersection ( 149.6 m) of Mombachstraße with the Dutch road (along extend federal highways B 7 and B 83) at Henner - Piffendeckel Square, where the Philipp Scheidemann - house stands.

Mouth: After the current flowing in its 1.5 km long tunnel channeling Mombach the location of the Mombachstraße Elisabeth- Knipping School and the Cultural Center has happened slaughterhouse, it opens on the border of the districts of North Holland and Fasanenhof on the southeast corner of the small Nordstadtpark located lower end of the Mombachstraße to about 140 m altitude in the Ahna. At the local tunnel portal the inscription is to be read in 1908, and to the east above the mouth is Fasanenhof Klinikum Kassel.

References and Notes

• River system Fulda
• River in Europe
• River in Hesse
• Waters in Kassel