Hase

Course of the hare by the Hasetal

Hare weir in Osnabrück

The rabbit is a 169 km long right tributary of the middle Ems and by the Else a tributary of the Weser in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) and has a catchment area of ​​3086 km ².

River

The river rises southeast of Osnabrück in the Teutoburg Forest in Melle- Wellingholzhausen. Is fed the rabbit through the rabbit source and the black shaft ( Alma source) in the headwaters of Puschkental in Welling Holzhausen, as well as the Rehquellen between Wellingholzhausen and Dissen. From there, the rabbit flows northward to Wellingholzhausen, where its further course of the river is determined by the Weser -Ems - watershed.

Name

The river's name has nothing to do with the animal hare. Until the late 19th century, the spelling " Haase " was common. Derive is the name of a Germanic haswa (gray), for example, continued in Anglo-Saxon or Old Icelandic hasu hǫss ( gray-brown ), even in peoples names Chasuarii (hare residents ), which, inter alia, is occupied in Tacitus 34.1 ). The designation of a river after a color is not uncommon ( see, eg, the name of the Elbe, the Latin albus adjective, -a ,-um ( white / gray, pale, light ) is used.

Weser -Ems - watershed

Between the Meller districts Wellingholzhausen and Gesmold, in the border area of the peasantry Uhlenberg and Dratum - Ausbergen, has the bunny on a special feature in a bifurcation the river divides to 79.8 m above sea level in rabbit and Else so that each arm in a another river system flows. However, this is not a natural phenomenon, but rather the product of a dispute over water rights. First, a mill stream was created to operate the mill at Castle Gesmold better in the 16th century. Only later appeared the name Else on for the diversion of the hare, and led in the 19th and 20th centuries to a Bifurkationseuphorie because it was believed that one could refer to a unique natural phenomenon here.

River course

One-third of its water flows under the name Else in an easterly direction and flows Kirchlengern in the Werre, the proceeds to the Weser. Two-thirds of the water flowing in a northwesterly direction on to Osnabrück towards Bramsche where it crosses under the Mittelland Canal ( " Hasedüker ") and divides into two arms, the High hare and the depth hare, reunite with Rieste, in the Artland get where they again divides into several arms and receives inflowing streams.

Before Quakenbruck divides the river in Great Rabbit, Small rabbit, the hare and the Trent stock Wrau. Today's Small Rabbit begins as a water reduction of the Great Bunny in the raid Hare ( Schützenhof weir in Quakenbruck ) and opens below Menslage in the Hahnenmoor channel (one belonging to Heart Lake former Gutsbezirk ) feeds into the Great Hare after nine kilometers at Aselage. This barrel length is 24 kilometers.

The last 1.6 km of the hare ( Ha ) have been designated as a federal waterway, of which just 700 meters from mouth route forming part of the Dortmund- Ems Canal. Is responsible for the Water and Shipping Authority Meppen.

The river kept bringing floods, so that early embankments and other interventions were necessary. Larger water masses were derived at certain times by gates on fields to provide them with minerals; were formed " Rieselwiesen ". To avoid large floods, originated from 1972, the 220 ​​-acre Alfsee between Rieste and Alfhausen which can accommodate up to 13 million cubic meters of water hare; a reserve pool again summarizes eight million cubic meters. The reserve pool is designated as a nature reserve.

Use

Shipping

For shipping to the rabbit has never played a special role. Only the lower course is navigable for about 50 kilometers in length. There perverted so-called Emspünten, a type of ship with his flatboat could handle most shoals and was therefore used until the 1920s on shallow rivers. The barges were usually fitted oak and with a sail and had to be towed the hare usually.

Water

The rabbit is used for long stretches of water sports, notably by canoeists, rowers and boat drivers. On Alfsee, fed by the waters of the rabbit, there is a water ski - conditioning as well as a marina with slipway for sailing ships. In Quakenbruck is played on the bunny Canoe Polo.

Fishing

After the Lower Saxony Fisheries Act of 1978, the rabbit is divided into three fishing districts, namely

• Hase I ( of the bidding Mühle in Wellingholzhausen to the intersection with the Mittelland Canal near Bramsche )
• Hare II ( from the junction with the Mittelland Canal to Brokhagenstau below Quakenbruck )
• Hare III ( from Brokhagenstau to the confluence with the Dortmund- Ems Canal )

The European Water Framework Directive requires all Member States to improve the ecological state of their rivers in 2015 to year and among other things, thereby achieving the " restoration of ecological continuity " for fish. Already, the rabbit is more alive than before the beginning of the restoration measures. Come even in Osnabrück urban area in the rabbit despite massive interventions in the past about 30 species of fish, with most of the fish are stocking fish, suspend the angler. Almost everywhere along the rabbit can be fished with fishing license or with guest card.

Places on the rabbit

• Melle- Wellingholzhausen - Hare source
• Melle- Gesmold - bifurcation
• Osnabrück
• Bramsche - south of the city crosses the hare the Mittelland canal, in the Epe district of the Hare separates the Court Dallmann in height and depth hare.
• Rieste - In the municipality of Rieste the bunny is divided into several branches: In Epe (city Bramsche ), the hare is divided into High and depth hare; north of Rieste the arms come together again. The High hare serves to washed around the monastery goods Malgarten ( Epe district - Malgarten the city Bramsche ) and the Coming location (municipality Rieste ). Another side of the High running hare is the Sögelner mill stream which on Sögelner area (city Bramsche ) the depths hare and depositing the house Sögeln bathed. This tributary joins in Rieste again with the depth hare. On old maps is to recognize even the existing until a few decades ago, so-called Wulfert Trench in the municipality of Rieste. This branch of the High hare served mainly for irrigation of meadows. Another tributary to Riester area is the so-called Old Hare ( also called birch ) that pervades among other things, the residential hammer.
• Alfhausen
• Bersenbrueck - The river is divided artificially Hase- surge barrier. From here the main river course the hare runs west channel (Mill Hare), which was created in 1293 to supply the Cistercian monastery Bersenbrueck together with associated mill and runs further than Old Hare to east Badbergen.
• Gehrde
• Badbergen
• Quakenbruck - In the southeast, the river divides into the Great Hare ( passing through the city in the northeast ) and the Little Rabbit ( which flows into several arms through the city, one of which branches off to the north to the Great Hare ); it forms an inland delta in the raid hare.
• Menslage - here the bunny is channeled in the Little Rabbit
• Food, Loeningen - here it flows into a slightly more northern arm as the Great Hare
• Heart Lake - merging of these two arms
• Haselünne - inflow of Südradde
• Haselünne - Doergen - inflow of Mittelradde
• Haselünne - Taught
• Bokeloh
• Meppen - confluence with the Ems

Inflows

The hare flow to, among other things:

• Düte
• Südradde
• Mittelradde
• Cute
• Wierau
• Belmer Bach
• Nonnenbach

Gallery

The Hare with the bifurcation Else in Gesmold

The hare in Osnabrück

The hare in Bramsche direction Hesepe ( upstream )

The hare in Bersenbrueck

The hare in Quakenbruck

The hare in Loeningen

The hare in Meppen, just before the junction with the Dortmund -Ems Canal