Olmes

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The Olmes in the industrial area " Am Kraftwerk "

The Olmes is a right-side or eastern tributary of the Schwalm, the completely in the field of Schwalm- Eder -Kreis ( Hesse, Germany ) runs.

Geography

The Olmes rises in the southeast of the community Neuental about one kilometer south of the hamlet Neuenhain on the northeastern edge of the Walter Hill. Your source lies about 235 meters above sea level. Between Neuenhain and Dillich the creek flows in a northwesterly direction and reached the territory of the city of Borken. Shortly before Haarhausen flows through the Olmes an artificial pond, which is an opencast mine Borken lignite mining area. Between Haarhausen and wet Erfurth opens into the Olmes one whose only right-side tributary, the Merrebach. Here, the Olmes turns in an easterly direction. Then she turns in a northeasterly direction until it flows in wet Erfurth in a westerly direction. Behind Wet Erfurth the Olmes reached the Borkener lake, from which it is separated by a narrow strip of land and it wraps around to the west to pan for Trockenerfurth in a northeasterly direction. Near the core city of Borken swings the Olmes again in a northerly direction, which it retains to the mouth of the Schwalm at Gombeth.

On their way through the town and city of Borken Neuental the Olmes overcomes a difference in altitude of about 55 meters and has a length of approximately 11.1 kilometers. In this case, the catchment area of ​​Olmes covers an area of ​​48.091 km ².