Oder (Harz)

Southwesterly resin with or

The Oder is a 56 km long, orographic right and eastern tributary of the Rhume in the districts of Goslar, Osterode am Harz and Northeim in the southeastern Lower Saxony ( Germany ). It flows in the resin and in the south of the Harz mountains.

Course

The Oder rises in the district of Goslar, in the Upper Harz. Your source is located approximately 1.3 km north- northwest of the Achtermannshöhe and about 1 km southeast of Oderbrück, a district of Sankt Andreas Berg. Your in the southern part of the Brocken field located in the Oder source is called " Or jump".

On the Brocken field and so close to the jump or the Abbe Rivers, Great Bode, Ecker and Cold Bode have their respective headwaters; on the eastern edge of the Brocken field is the Triangular pile.

After the Or has the B 4 crosses under in Oderbrück in the east-west direction, it is dammed west of the settlement in the pond or in which it bends to the south, for the first time. Below this water reservoir, it passes the westerly Rehberg with the high cliffs and the eastern Clausthal cliffs. Some river kilometer further down it flows through the St. Andreas Berger district or house where the Trutenbeek opens. Then it is southwest of the "Or Taler sawmill " dammed to Oderstausee.

After subsequent open out the lock Lutter the Oder traverses the core city of Bad Lauterberg and leaves while the resin. In the city, the river bends to the open out of Lutter in a westerly direction, after which he am Harz Red Mountain north passing runs over Pöhlde and Hattorf after Wulften and in Hattorf receives the coming of the Northeast River Sieber.

Finally, the Oder opens in Katlenburg coming from the east into the linen inflow Rhume.

Hydrographic

The Oder and its largest tributary, the Sieber, lose their way through the Südharzer gypsum karst water to the further south Rhumequelle. This has been proven by dyeing tests in the course of several hydrological studies of Rhumequelle, 1910 at Eichelsbach near Herzberg by Karl Thürnau ( with six kilograms uranine ), then multiple times, in 1980 by the Lower Saxony State Office for soil research in the Sieber near Hörden and at the or close Scharzfeld. The high level of water losses is mainly explained by the fact that the ridge of Red Mountain, although like a dam, the mighty gravel deposits of the Oder from the Valley of Rhume keeps, but not flowing in the ballast water to the partly fractured or verkarstungsfähigen rock formations of the Red Mountain can reach deeper Rhumequelle.

Despite the loss of water at the mouth of the Oder is in the Rhume the larger, relatively water-rich river, so actually the main river. It is noteworthy that a similar situation also exists at the mouth of the Rhume in the line and again at the mouth of the Aller. Thus, the hydrographic Or is the main flow of the river system of the Aller.

Nature reserve Oderaue

Between Scharzfeld and Katlenburg the Oder flows through the nature reserve Oderaue founded and about 510 hectares in 2007 ( NSG-Nr. 378 334 ).

Water

The Oder 27 can be traveled to about 15 km in length to the mouth with kayaks and canoes from the lower crossing of the B.

Towns

Villages on the Oder are:

• Oderbrück ( district of Saint Andrew Berg)
• Or house (part of St. Andrew Berg)
• Bad Lauterberg
• Scharzfeld
• Pöhlde
• Hattorf am Harz
• Wulften am Harz
• Katlenburg -Lindau

Catchment and inflows

Among the tributaries of the Oder, whose catchment area is about 385 square kilometers, including ( downriver considered, l = left side, r = right side):

• Trutenbeek ( l)
• Blocking Lutter (r )
• Wiesenbek ( l)
• Lutter (r )
• Big Andreas Bach ( r)
• Barbiser Bach ( l)

• Bremke (r )
• Acorn trench ( r)
• Beber ( Pöhlder Bach) ( l)
• Sieber (R)
• Hack Bach ( r)

Pictures

Confluence of Sieber ( l) in the Oder (r ) at Hattorf am Harz

Or Weir at Hattorf