Lauter (Vogelsberg)

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The Lauter is the 27.9 km long, left and western source river of the slot in the Vogelsberg and district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany that converges in Bad Salzschlirf with its right and southern source river Altefeld. The catchment area of ​​136.58 km ² comprises Lauter.

Course

The Lauter rises in the Vogelsberg mountains around 2 km north- northeast of Berg's Seven Maple ( 752.7 m above sea level. NN ), which belongs to the local upper forest. Your source is within the Vogelsberg district in the Hoher Vogelsberg on wooded forest meadow head at about 670 m altitude.

The river runs generally in a north-easterly direction. After leaving the forest area on the river origin of the volume flowing through Engelrod, Hörgenau and Hopfmannsfeld, three parts of the municipality named after her Lauter valley. After it has passed through another forest, leaving the natural park, the volume goes through Frischborn what flows in from the south of Eisenbach. Then she pulls northward through Lauterbach, also named after her, which opens the Brenderwasser from the West. Even in the village bends the volume up to the east and then flows through the village green brook.

A little further east reached the volume up in the district of Fulda, Bad Salzschlirf located where they are to EUR 238.7 m above sea level. NN combined with the coming of the south Altefeld for now still 13.3 km long, left-sided Fulda inflow slot.