Rethlager Bach

The Rethlager stream just before its confluence with the Werre

The Rethlager Bach ( also Retlager Bach or Rethlage; Low German: Reukenbieke or Reulenbieke ) is a 5.4 km long left tributary Werre. The Rethlager sources are the origin of the Rethlager creek.

Course

The Rethlager sources are located on the eastern slope of the 217 m high in the little Ehbergs Doren ravine, a relatively shallow crossing the Teutoburg Forest, at an altitude of 160 m above sea level. NHN between the Detmold district Pivitsheide VL and the Lagenser district Hörste.

From its origin from the creek flows to the northeast down to Pivitsheide VL and here receives its first tributary, the 2.3 km long Hunebach. A few hundred meters downstream of the creek has been dammed to form a pond and drove the Rethlager mill in Pivitsheide VL. To eliminate occurred ecological problems concerning both the pond itself and the stream, a Umflut the stream has been created and published and passed around the pond. In the further course of the stream takes at kilometer 2.6 its longest and second inflow, the 3.8 km-stretch Hörster Bach and ends after 5.4 km and a height difference of about 54 m at 48.3 km at Hacheide in the Werre.

In the 18th century the Rethlager Bach served the rafting.