Oster (Blies)

Easter in May 2012 in Upper Church

The Easter is almost 31 km long, north-easterly and left-side tributary of the assemblies in the Palatinate mountains in the northeastern part of the Saarland.

Course

The Easter rises in the Saar- Hunsrück, a little west-northwest of Upper churches. You entfließt Easter source located southeast of the Füsselbergs and is northwest of the central mountain, the northern foothills of Mount Weisel.

At first runs the Easter, which is accompanied by Fürth from Easter Valley Railway, east to northern churches and then flows through this place, where it is crossed by the Upper Viaduct churches, to the south. From then passes the stream in this direction by Hoof and then along the B 420 on Marth and Lower Churches by Werschweiler, where he leaves the Saar- Hunsrück. Then she runs over Doerrenbach and Fürth to Hangard.

Finally, Easter, which now flows westwards to its last kilometers Bach opens, after 210 m height difference in Wiebelskirchen in the coming from the north assemblies.

History

After she was 1930s, 1960s and straightened in the in the 1970s, over long distances, renatured to the Easter since 1990 sections. Beginning in 1934, was built along the creek named after him Easter Valley Railway.