Holzkape

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The Holzkape (not to be confused with the Holzape; mentioned in the underflow also Ruthe Stein ) is a 9.1 km long, orographic right-hand or eastern tributary of the fair in the district of Kassel, North Hesse ( Germany ).

Course

The Holzkape rises in the southwest part of the Reinhard Forest. Your source is located 1.5 km south-southwest of the Junker head (about 453 m above sea level. NHN ) and about 900 m northeast of the Rothbalzer pond at around 355 meters above sea level. About 1 km east of the origin, the leading on from the near Holzhausen north into the Reinhardswald country road is "L 3232 " located Wanderparkplatz " Red floor" ( 380 m), from which one of the forest paths " Kuhtrift " or " Paulsweg " to can reach Holzkapequelle.

A few hundred meters to their origin takes the Holzkape on several short probably unnamed streams, whose sources lie in Reinhardswald to a maximum of about 420 m. In the highlands of this source area are located far away from the Bach two small still waters.

Below the Rothbalzer pond (about 302 m), where the Holzkape 7.9 and 7.6 north flows past their stream kilometers, it runs between the river miles 6.9 and 6.6 north to the Bennhäuser pond (about 282 m ) around; Both ponds are fed by branches from their trenches.

After leaving the Reinhard Forest, the Holzkape predominantly flows westward through this great forest area west of upstream hills, extensive, treeless and agriculturally intensively used area north of Kassel. Here, the stream runs through the urban core of Immenhausen, this is the only town on its course, and in which he passed a soccer field, then a football field and then between the river kilometers 4.1 and 3.85 the Kamp pond (approx. 231 m). Thereafter, the Holzkape flows far north past the former " Glashütte Immenhausen " from which a building has been converted into a " glass museum Immenhausen ". Approximately when passing a sewage plant, they leave the town, after which it also bears the name Ruthe Stein and is bridged three times in quick succession from the railway Kassel- Warburg. She runs the Bach 1.85 miles pass farm Klingenhof, after which the woodpecker Beck from the north and Marie village opens its longest tributary.

Then the Holzkape flows a little further to the west, around 2 km southeast of Grebestein to about 192 m altitude in the coming from the south Diemel inflow to lead Esse. Your lying below the Esse Bach kilometer 21.5 estuary opposite or just beyond the forge is the northwestern part of the 1983 reported and 27 acre nature reserve Rothenberg at Castle Uffeln ( NSG-Nr. 82452 ) with three small ponds.

Attractions and Culture

Among the attractions at or near the Holzkape include numerous medieval buildings of Immenhausen. There is worth a visit to the " Museum of Glass Immenhausen " in the operated until 1996 " Glashütte Immenhausen ". At the edge of the worth visiting Reinhard Forest, among others Sababurg, zoo and jungle Sababurg Sababurg located between Rothbalzer pond and pond Bennhäuser a Pfadfinderheim with the Federal Centre Federation of Scouts and Guides ( BdP ).

Catchment and inflows

The largest tributary of the Holzkape whose catchment area covers 24.972 km ², is the woodpecker Beck (4 km long) whose catchment area is on the right side opens by Marie village or Northeast zoom flowing below the abseitigen Klingenhof about the Holzkapebachkilometer 1.7 and 6.507 km ².

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