Gilsa (Schwalm)

The Gilsa at Densberg

Course

The Gilsa springs southwest of Gilston just outside the Natural Park basement Edersee. Its main source is located on the northern flank of 433 m above sea level. NN high, with its 428 m above sea level. NN Westgipfel the Rhine -Weser watershed touching Cold hornbeam. Your river can be divided into three sections.

First, the Gilsa flows in its upper reaches in predominantly northerly direction to the north of the Gilserberger altitudes where to accrue several streams in place Gilston. From then on, it runs within the Natural Park basement Edersee where they head north past the ruins of Schönstein reached the foothills of the West Löwensteiner ground after a further 3 kilometers that separates the Gilserberger heights to the north from the basement Forest.

After the ruins Schönstein is bathed in a clockwise direction, the Gilsa follows the Löwensteiner reason in a north-easterly direction to flow through the valley in close Densberg. Here is located at its right or southern bank of the ridge Hemberg with the dog head ( 471 m above sea level. NN ) whose steep slopes ( in the ruins Schönstein, west of Densberg and between Densberg and Jesberg ) directly reach to the Gilsa. The contrary, the landscape of her left, and especially its northern shore rises more gradually to the significantly higher peaks of the basement Forest back to: west of the river, the Jeust the Gilsa rises and north of the High cellar with a desert garden ( ( 585 m above sea level. ) 675 m above sea level. NN ) and the Hunsrück ( 636 m above sea level. NN ).

Through this narrow part of the Gilsatals led in the Middle Ages, a major thoroughfare, which was guarded by castles Schönstein, Densberg and Jesberg.

In Jesberg the Gilsa passes under the B 3, where it leaves the Nature Park basement Edersee, and then reaches the Löwensteiner reason, a spur of the Schwalm level. Here it flows through the district in the community Neuental Gilsa and ends after the district Bischhausen in the Schwalm.

Hydrology

Below Jesberg or "B 3" the Gilsa is run as a river of the second order. The responsible consumer association, the Water Board Schwalm in Homberg. The catchment area of ​​Gilsa that belongs to that of the Eder, according to the Hydrological lichen surface Directory State of Hesse covers 93.54 km ².

Among the tributaries of the Gilsa include - downriver considered - including Norde, Koppach, Treisbach and Michel Bach.

Tourism

Worth seeing are the remains of the above-mentioned castles Schönstein, Densberg and Jesberg and the "three yards " in Neuental - Gilsa of the noble family of Gilsa and on the lower reaches of the river in Gilsatal. The extensive forests in the Natural Park basement Edersee invite to hikes. A popular destination is the cellar forest tower on the desert garden, which is accessible from Gilsatal out in an hour-long hike. The Kellerwaldsteig crosses the Gilsa twice, on the outskirts of Densberg and near the ruins Schönstein. In Jesberg is located directly on the Gilsa a leisure center with camping, outdoor swimming pool and various sports facilities.