Perf (Lahn)

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The Perf is a 20 km, on the Gansbach even 22.8 km long, orographic right or southern tributary of the Lahn in Marburg- Biedenkopf, Hesse, in the northern Gladenbacher Bergland. It is first mentioned in 913 as Pernaffa documented and gave the Perfgau ( pagus Pernaffa ), a medieval Gaugrafschaft his name.

With a catchment area of ​​good 113 km ² and an outflow of nearly 1,800 l / s, the Perf is the most water-rich inner flow of Gladenbacher mountain country and next to the Salzböde and the Aar the most important.

• 2.1 The main river question
• 2.2 Transport Infrastructure

Course

Headwaters and upper reaches

The Perf springs on the Bottenhorner plateaus southeast of the village Bottenhorn, a part of municipality Bad Endbach. She has two sources. The northern source is located in the municipality Bottenhorn, the source drain forms the border with the neighboring municipality Hülshof ( Acc Bad Endbach ) simultaneously; the southeastern source is located in the district Hülshof. The sources are located in a spacious flat meadows south of the mountain Scheid ( 538.7 m), on the northwest slope of the pig's head (520 m), at about 500 m altitude. From the confluence of the perf a left inflow picks up in the Bottenhorner town center and then flows mostly north.

Upper Perftal

About a kilometer after passing the Steffen Berger local part Steinperf leaves the river is Bottenhorner plateaus and is now on the main river of the Breidenbacher reason dar. One after the other in the Upper Perftal Steffen Berger districts upper and Niedereisenhausen and finally Quotshausen happens. In Niedereisenhausen her flowing from left its main tributary of Goose creek, in Quotshausen, also from the left, the Hörle to.

Lower Perftal

After having Wolzhausen the first Breidenbacher district is traversed, get the flow a little, northwestern turn and flows about a kilometer between two forests and into the much broader, lower Perftal where he left flow to the Dieterich in the nucleus Breidenbach, who is also the B 253 follows the Perftal. After flowing through the Perfstausees, a flood retention basin between Breidenbach and Breidenstein to relieve Lahn and Rhine, it flows into Wallau, as well Breidenstein a district of Biedenkopf. Coming from the west in the Lahn

Tributaries

Subsequently, the tributaries of the Perf including orographic inflow side, length, catchment area, mouth height and DGKZ number are listed below:

*: Strictly speaking, the Gladenbach represents a Boxbach inflow and its catchment area would have to be of the specified Boxbaches added are counted! However, the cash inflows are less than 100 meters before the Boxbach estuary in the Perf

Skip to main flow question

At the confluence of the Perf and Gansbach in Niedereisenhausen the goose creek is 11.1 km long and has a catchment area of ​​23.174 km ², while the Perf is only 8.3 km long at this time and has a catchment area of ​​18.848 km ². Therefore, hydrologically, the Gansbach the actual main flow of the river system of the Perf dar.

Traffic routes

Along the headwaters of the two main arms lead the country roads: While the L 3042 via the Gansbachtal to the places Angel Petersburg until it finally runs down the Escaut forest, the L 3049 turns to the high places Steffen Berg and finally various districts of Bad Endbachs over the top Perftal and that of the home stream.

The most important highway of the Perf - catchment area, however, remains the B 253, which follows up the river above the Perf - lower reaches of Dieterich and beyond the watershed between the Upper Lahn and Dill finally follows Simmersbach and Dietzhölze to Dillenburger Dilltal.