Hahnenbach (Wiedau)

The rooster creek between New churches and Delmsen

The Hahnenbach is after Rodau the second largest tributary of the Wiedau and drained part of the distinctive sloping to the west edge of the Lüneburg Heath.

Course

The creek originates in small bog sinks in Lever things ( to New Churches, District of Heidekreis ) and flows through the first few miles through a wide valley with fields and meadows. From right it flows with last steep slope to the water a little richer and longer Gilmerdinger brook, which rises south-west of Schneverdingen in the nature reserve Birkensee. In the local situation of new churches, the largest town in the catchment area, the Hahnenbachtal cuts through scenic one Endmoränenwall from the early Drenthestadium the Saale ice age. In the course of cock stream flows with significantly reduced gradient through a wooded and marshy lowlands. Southwest of Hemslingen it flows when the barking in the Wiedau, reached their water over the Wümme and Lesum the Weser. The Hahnenbach leads to the confluence with the Wiedau more water, so it can be hydrologically regarded as their main source river. The cock Bach throughout a water quality class II ( moderately polluted ). The river can not be navigated by boat.

Secular history

The Hauptquellast the tap stream, the stream flows Gilmerdinger, east of Neuenkirchener Endmoränenwalls to the southwest. Its valley line and also his height profile will be continued to the southwest from the Valley of Bomlitz whose upper reaches of the creek Gilmerdinger once was. Probably more in the Saale ice age he was distracted by the with much more slope and erosion force from the northwest drastic Hahnenbach to Wümme Lowland. The increased vertical erosion also explains the wealth gap of the lowest Gilmerdinger creek. Similarly, the Wietze has further east cut off and diverted the headwaters of the Meiss.

The Hahnenbach in rod mill