Humme (Weser)

The lobster few hundred meters from the mouth of the Weser

Course

The lobster rises southwest of the High Asch in Reinerbeck in Aerzen spots in Lower Saxony from the confluence of Dewesiek and lobster Bach. Both headwaters originate in North Rhine -Westphalia. The lobster flows in an easterly direction and soon enters the border to Lower Saxony. Here it flows through the community Aerzen and flows northeast of the district of Hamelin Klein Berkel into the Weser.

The difference in height between the source and mouth is about 260 m.

The lobster flows through the village: Aerzen - Stain part Reinerbeck, Aerzen - part Arhorn stain, stains Aerzen Aerzen - Stain part Selxen, Aerzen - Stain part Groß Berkel, Hameln Klein Berkel district. The lobster flows to 100 % by the State of Lower Saxony and can be described from Groß Berkel as " flow ".

• Grießebach, 10.446 km long right tributary; opens in Aerzen in the lobster

Humme jumping

In Klein Berkel held every two years in the summer of the so-called lobster instead of jumping, for which the flow is temporarily dammed. The participants try to jump with the help of a wooden pole dry-shod over the lobster, but what few succeed.

Focal trough race

In the United Berkel held every two years instead of one focal trough race. The inhabitants of the paddle Humme bridge at Koppelweg flow down to the Hummwehr. The tournament is organized to Altdorf hard.

Pollution in 2012

2012 dead, several thousand sticklebacks Mühlkoppen and brown trout in the lobster. The police investigated a farmer who is said to have introduced large amounts manure with a tube installed, as a possible cause of the contamination.