Salwey

Salwey in Obersalwey

The Salwey, sometimes also called Salweybach, is a 14.8 km long, orographic left tributary of the Wenne in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. The creek flows to the east of Olpe and western Hochsauerlandkreis.

• 2.1 Protected Areas
• 2.2 Breeding Birds

Geography

The Salwey stems from the Salweyquelle southwest of Weuspert on the northeast edge of the 549.3 m high Sterlbergs at an altitude of 497 m above sea level. NN. Primarily by east-northeast -flowing, the Salwey flows through the villages Obersalwey, Niedersalwey, Sieperting, Niedereslohe and Sallinghausen, about 1 km to the east to 284 m above sea level. NN on the left side to open into the Wenne.

The difference in height on its 14.8 km long road is 213 m, corresponding to an average bed slope of 14.4 ‰. The Salwey drains a 67.939 km ² large catchment area over Wenne, Ruhr and Rhine to the North Sea.

Tributaries

The Salwey flow to numerous, sometimes very short streams from the slopes of the surrounding hills. The most important tributary is the 10.4 km long Esselbach. This flowing from the south creek flows after it has flowed through Eslohe in Niedereslohe. With a 26.633 km ² large catchment area it contributes to about 4 /10, which the Salwey at. With a length of 9.1 km and a catchment area of ​​15.720 km ² is still the Marpe appreciably. The following are the tributaries are called in order from source to mouth, by the district government of Cologne (formerly Ordnance Survey ) will be performed. Indicated are the orographic position of the mouth, the length, the size of the catchment area, the height of the mouth and the water code.

Nature and Environment

Reserves

The passage of Salwey in the municipality Eslohe is outside the local documents designated as conservation area type C ( green valleys and important extensive grassland ). The underflow shortly after Sallinghausen is part of the nature reserve and Wennetal been simultaneously recognized as a conservation area Wenne.

Breeding birds

At the Salwey been kingfisher, dippers, gray wagtails and Mallard were detected as breeding birds. As food stays during herons and black stork.