Haßbach (Ruhr)

Stream (about a kilometer before the confluence with the Ruhr)

The Haßbach, also: Hasbach, is a 6.327 km long, orographic left tributary of the Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalian Arnsberg, in large part as a border river between the districts Voßwinkel and Bachum. The creek originates on the western side of Zuhangebergs north of Lumber and south of Voßwinkel at an altitude of 260 m above sea level. NN and flows in a northerly direction to 147 m above sea level. NN in the Ruhr.

The creek overcomes on his way a height difference of 113 m, which corresponds to a barrel length of 6.327 kilometers an average bed slope of 17.9 ‰. The creek drains across the Ruhr and the Rhine to the North Sea.

Nature and Environment

Large parts of the stream are in the nature reserve Luerwald or have been designated as protected landscape components. The underflow is protected as a nature reserve.