Hoppecke

Source

Course

The Hopp corner rises near the boundary between the central -east of North Rhine -Westphalia and the northwestern part of Hesse, and thus close to the border of Hochsauerlandkreis to the district Waldeck -Frankenberg at the interface of the Regions Sauerland and Upland. Your source is located on the North Rhine- Westphalian area about 2 km north- northeast of Hildfeld and 4.5 km south-southwest of Willingen (each a straight line ) between the Clemens Berg ( 839.1 m above sea level. NHN ) in the southwest and the Hegekopf ( 842.9 m ) in the north- northeast in the high moorland of the nature reserve Neuer Hagen. At the situated at about 780 m altitude origin of the river, where a stone with the inscription Hoppecke source that leads past the long distance footpath Rothaarsteig.

Initially flows often water-rich corner Hopp, which is generally in a north-easterly direction, after crossing the border with Hesse steep downhill and then west past the center of Willingen, almost to reach below the village again after North Rhine -Westphalia. Then she makes an elongated curve to the right along the Willingen about Brilon-Wald, Hopp corner, Messinghausen and Beringhausen by Mars mountain leading railway line; also the north-west section of Upland railway line that runs from Korbach to Brilon-Wald runs through the Hoppecketal. The Hopp corner runs underneath of Willingen in the area of Brilon -Wald, before the discharges coming from the southwest Schmalah, only along a portion of the B 251, later along the country road "L 870 ", which according to the Diemel from the village Hoppecke Bredelar leads, and ultimately along a portion of the B 7 leading hiesig from Brilon to Mars mountain.

Watershed

The headwaters of the Hopp corner located on the elongated Rhine -Weser watershed: while the Hopp corner, which originates in the nature reserve Neuer Hagen, turns on the Diemel the Weser flows of Hillebachstausee, which rises on the southwest side of the ridge, on the Ruhr into the Rhine.

Classification as tributary

Interesting on Diemel inflow Hopp corner is that it to its mouth in the Diemel slightly longer ( 34.7 km compared with 32.4 km ) than the Diemel headwaters to get there. Meanwhile, the catchment area of ​​Hopp corner is significantly smaller than that of the fed already Itter and Rhene Diemel and runoff correspondingly lower.

Unlike especially historically as " tributary " of Fulda guided Eder is thus, despite its length, the Hoppecke a tributary of the Diemel in the true sense.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of the Hopp corner is 92.371 km ². Its tributaries include this watercourse - indicated in each case the orographic position of the mouth, the length in kilometers (km), the estuary and the mouth height in meters above mean sea level ( MSL ); opening into Hopp corner inflows streams are shown slightly indented, written small and italics:

Towns

Villages on the corner Hopp are:

• Willingen
• Brilon-Wald
• Gudenhagen - Peter Born

• Hopp corner
• Messinghausen
• Beringhausen
• Bredelar