Hörster Bach

The Hörster Bach in Hiddentrup

The Hörster Bach is a 3.9 km long, orographic right tributary of Rethlager Bach in East Westphalia -Lippe.

Geography

Course

The Hörster creek rises to about 185 m above sea level. NN between the up to 206 m high and 211 m Hörster harrow high Münter castle in a forest. From its origin from the Hörster creek initially flows down to Hörste in southeast direction, flows through the northern part Hörstes and continues to flow towards east to reach Hiddentrup. In Hiddentrup the creek crosses under the county road 5 and further flows to the northeast, according to a flow distance of 3.9 km to the west of Detmold district Pivitsheide V. L. at an altitude of 125 m above sea level. NN to open into the Rethlager Bach.

Catchment area

The creek drains the valley between the up to 206 m high Hörster Harrow in the north and part of the slope of the Teutoburg Forest with elevations Stapelager mountain ( 361.6 m ), Hermann Berg ( 363.7 m), Hörster mountain ( 290.6 m), Esbatzen ( 277.8 m), and Little Ehberg ( 217.4 m). The entire catchment area has a size of 7.238 km ².

Tributaries

The Hörster Bach has two unnamed tributaries. The first and most westerly inflow is 2.1 km long and rises in the Stapelager gorge between mountains and Stapelager Uekenpohl, flows through Stapelage and flows east from Stapelage or north of Hörste into the Hörster Bach. The second tributaries with a length of 1.7 km originates at Hermann Hill in a small source pools and flows south through the Hörster the park and opens into Hörste in the Hörster Bach. In Hörste the creek is brutalized over a length of several hundred meters. A short distance away in a park in the center Hörstes the creek was re- exposed and renatured.

Environment

Back in 2001, the Hörster stream of water quality class II -III ( critically polluted ) has been assigned. 2008, the quality situation clearly improved and the Hörster Bach has in the upper and middle reaches of a good water quality water quality class I- II ( lightly loaded ) - on. The underflow from Hiddentrup is allocated to the Class II -III ( critically polluted ). Reasons are the agricultural use of Bachaue and the resulting pollutants from fertilizers and manure. In hot summers the brook dries up in parts.