Jordanbach
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The Jordan river is a right tributary of the River Böhme ( southwestern Lüneburg Heath ). It flows exclusively in the area of Lower Saxon town of Walsrode in the district Heidekreis.
The headwaters of the good seven -mile creek is located in Vehmsmoor The western half of it drains. The Moor is located on a low plateau of the wave so designated as a natural area Walsrode Lehmgeest. She stops abruptly just south and up to 40 meters deep the Aller glacial valley from. The current flowing in a southerly direction Jordan Bach overlaps considerably in this edge of the moraine plateau and then exits at Altenboitzen in the grassland dominated floodplains of the Böhme. He then follows the foot of the slope to the southwest and flows into the likewise southwestward flowing to the All Böhme.
The Jordan river is named after a railway between Bomlitz and Altenboitzen, which now serves only the purposes of tourism and on which the Working Group Traffic friends Lüneburg eV performs individual special trips with the Heideexpress. Consisting of a stretch of the railway line Verden Walsrode the Verden - Walsrode railway (since 1910) and the railway line Bomlitz Walsrode existing (since 1915) connection is sometimes called Jordan Bomlitz train, as it leads from the valley of the Jordan creek into Bomlitztal.