Nister (river)

The Nister between knowledge and Helmeroth

(19,2 km above the mouth )

The Nister, also called Big Nister, is a nearly 64 -km-long, left or southern tributary of the victory in Rhineland -Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Source

The Nister rises in the High Westerwald at the western foot of the Fuchskaute, the highest mountain of the Westerwald. Your source is located at the small town of Willingen at an altitude of 563 meters, just above the main street of the village in a small meadow.

Course

From the source from the Nister only a few kilometers flows in a southerly direction, then she turns in a predominantly north-westerly direction through the Westerwald. Directly below its source, she takes on some inflows from irrigation canals. Having smaller places like Nister - Möhrendorf, Emmerichenhain (where she takes on the Breitenbach, who also speisst the Breitenbach Dam ) and New Town has happened, she takes after a few kilometers flow path in Bad Marienberg - Langenbach right side the Black Nister on which at the mountain Stegskopf springs. From there, it continues to flow towards the southwest until it receives the left side Enspelner creek in the village Nistertal. From there it flows briefly in northern, then again in a northwesterly direction and happened after some time, the city Hachenburg or flows just north past Hachenburg. After she left Hachenburg behind her, she flows in a romantic valley and passes Marian city, which is located in the recreation area Kroppacher Switzerland. There, she also makes a great loop around the cultural monument Vroneck. Then she winds up in many loops through the Kroppacher Switzerland continues to the northwest and takes at Heimborn right side on the approximately 24 -kilometer-long small Nister. From there it flows on towards the north-west and passes example Towns such as stone Wingert. Now they still flows a few kilometers on the border between the city of Hamm and knowledge and pass the village Helmeroth.

Mouth

Leads Following a flow distance of about 64 kilometers between Etzbach and knowledge - Nisterbrück at an altitude of 143 meters in the 155.2 km long river victory.

The Valley of the Nister major force in shaping the recreation area Kroppacher Switzerland.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​245,968 km ² Nister is great. Your biggest inflows are viewed from the source to downstream:

It is interesting that these inflows of Nister Nister also have the name in itself.

Erbacher bridge

Near the village Nistertal is the " Erbacher Bridge ", a disused railway bridge. It is named after the then independent municipality of Erbach, which is a district of Nistertal today. This building is significant because at the time it was opened on 31 August 1911, about 300 meters long and nearly 40 m height was the largest concrete bridge without steel reinforcement in Germany and was regarded as a wonder of technology.

Alluvial sediments

The Auelehme the Nister have been formed for the most part only since the High Middle Ages. Previously, the floodplain of the Nister was therefore covered almost exclusively with gravel and large cobbles.