Schede (river)

Weser near Hilwartshausen with Schede - mouth ( bottom left)

The Schede in southern Lower Saxony Göttingen district is a 13.0 km long right and eastern tributary of the Weser.

Course

The Schede rises in the southern part of the Bramwalds. Your source is located about 1 km south-west of the core of the local community Bühren to around 300 m above sea level. NHN in the funnel- shaped Quelltopf Braukborn. The bed of the Schedequelle is seasonally variable, between 0.1 and 1 liter per second. Beyond Bühren is the origin of the Nieme, another tributary of the Weser.

The Schede that runs exclusively in the nature reserve Munden, initially flows in a northeasterly direction towards Bühren to the place by flowing east. Then she runs to the southeast east past Dankelshausen (part of Scheden ), then steer toward Scheden, which lies west of the Dransfelder city forest. Without achieve this Mittelgebirgszug, the Schede flows approximately southwest through the village Niederscheden.

Then flows the brook - accompanied by a section of the main road 3 - to the southwest and passes Mielenhausen (part of Hann Munden. ) Southeast. Thereafter, the Schede wedges on the southern slopes of the Bramwalds or on the Northern Slope of the mountain landscape of the city Mündener Forst westward flowing through the Schedetal with the hamlet Schedetal, after which it flows through Volkmarshausen (part of Hann. Munden ).

Located just west of Volkmarshausen opens the Schede by the confluence of the coming from the southeast Thiele Bach or immediately after passing under the main road 561, which the Hann. Mündener districts Gimte with Hemeln in the north connects the south, at about 110 m altitude in the current flowing to the North Sea Weser, which is about 190 m height difference results.

The located on the southwestern edge of the Bramwalds Schedeeinmündung opposite and thus the other or western bank of the Weser is Hilwartshausen, one just lying in Lower Saxony on the eastern slopes of the northern Hesse, Reinhard Forest monastery.

Henry flood

In the Valley of Schede it came during the Heinrich flood, the flood disaster of 16 and 17 July 1965 in Volkmarshausen where a Filzfabrik flooded and their stocks were washed away, serious damage. Here ensured through mud completely clogged ditches for large problems.