Itter (Diemel)

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The Itter is about 19.3 km long, orographic left and southwestern tributary of the Diemel in Waldeck- Frankenberg in Hesse and in Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Etymology

In historical sources, the Itter Itter is also mentioned as Becke and Ittersbach. Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze has the local name of the principality of Waldeck returned the name Itter in his work on Celtic origin. The importance of Itter in Celtic is water.

History

Geologically the Itter is located in a 240 million year old river landscape. The source region is located in the Rhenish Slate Mountains, and is the time from Devon and carbon assigned.

Course

The river rises in the northern part of the Rothaargebirge in the northwestern part of Hesse directly east of the border with North Rhine -Westphalia at the interface of the mountain regions and Upland Sauerland. Your source is located in a wooded landscape to about 770 m above sea level. NN between Hopper head ( 832.3 m) in the southeast and Clemens Berg ( 839.1 m ) in the west.

From there the water of Itter ( 806.1 m) flows north east past the mill head and Willingen- Stryck to Willingen and then east past the High Eimberg to Willingen -Schwalefeld. A little further north- eastward runs the Itter about 4 km in length as a border river of the aforementioned provinces in the north. Here it flows approximately parallel to a few kilometers further east extending Diemel, affected as a border river Brilon- Bontkirchen and finally flows to 376 m altitude in the western arm of the lake Diemel in which they accrue to the Diemel.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​Itter is 52.065 km ². Its tributaries include with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, Mündungsort with Ittersbach kilometers and - if known - catchment size and mouth height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ) ( downriver considered ) /:

  • Aarbach ( Aar; r; 8.8 km ), between Willingen and Bontkirchen (near km 6.3 ), 9.006 km ², approximately 443 m
  • Dommelbach (l / r; 4.9 kilometers ) above Bontkirchen (near km 4.2 ), 9.423 km ², approximately 414 m

Watersheds

  • The headwaters of the Itter is on the Rhine -Weser watershed: while the Itter turns to the northeast by the Diemel the Weser, the only short Bach welding Mecke flows through Hillebachstausee, which rises on Hillekopf, and dysentery to the west into the Rhine.
  • The source of the first small Itter influx, which rises east of the hopper head, located on the Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide: Its water flows in a northerly direction through the Itter and Diemel into the Weser, while the Wild Aa ( " Aar " ), which rises a little further east, a southern detour through Orke, Eder and makes Fulda to the Weser.

Level

The water Schifffahrtsamt Hann - Munden operates a monitoring station for detecting the influx of Itter in the Diemelsee. The facility is located at the Itter in the field of international border between North Rhine Westphalia and Hesse. The plant level house is located in front of the inlet of the Itter Diemelsee in the range of Kotthausen III. The level readings are available online.

Curiosities

What is interesting about the Diemel inflow Itter that he is up to its confluence with the Diemelsee slightly longer than the Diemel has up to its influence in the reservoir ( 19.3 km to 16.2 km) and also a slightly larger catchment area ( 48.294 compared with 38.964 km ²). Therefore, strictly speaking, would be probably the most historically operated as a tributary Itter to look at least as an equal source of the river Diemel.

Hopperkopf Municipality Orography Rhenish Massif Devonian Carboniferous Upland (Hesse) Hoher Eimberg Ruhr (river)
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