Schmala

The Schamla below the upper pool of the dam Schmala

The Schmala, also called Schmalah or Schellhorn stream, in North Rhine-Westphalia Hochsauerlandkreis is a 6.1 km long, left-side tributary of the Hopp corner in the northern part of the Rothaargebirge. Am Bach the dam Schmala is.

Geography

Course

The Schmala rises in the south of the district area of Bruchhausen ( Hochsauerlandkreis ), about 2.6 km west of the belonging to Hesse Willingen ( Waldeck- Frankenberg ). The source is located southwest from the 805 m high summit of Hopper head only 100 meters northwest of the Hessian border to about 750 m above sea level. NHN.

The Schmala flows exclusively on the North Rhine- Westphalian region and in predominantly northerly direction through an unpopulated, wooded and narrow valley, which is framed next to the hopper head to the south of these mountains: In the east of the ridge Schellhorn therefore extends ( is called the Bach also Schellhorn Bach ) with Big Kluskopf ( 761 m) and Rehkopf ( 674.7 m ) in the north, the broom head is ( 663.3 m), and in the west the Istenberg ( 728 m) rise with the Bruchhauser stones and Homberg (730 m).

In its valley of the brook flows through the Schmalatalsperre and two ponds (one below the dam and below the standing at the mouth of the valley waterworks ), which were built for domestic and drinking water supply of the city of Brilon area.

Then the Schmala from southwest Coming opens at the B 251 at the junction of the road L 743, the Brilon-Wald in the east with Elleringhausen connects (eastern district of Olsberg ) to the west, and on the southern outskirts of Brilon-Wald at around 470 m height in the light coming from the south Hopp corner. The mouth directly opposite the monastery of St. Joseph.

Rhine -Weser watershed

The aforementioned mountains west of Schmalatal form a portion of the Rhine -Weser watershed: The water of the Schmala flows through Hopp corner and Diemel into the Weser, while the water of the other side of these mountains running greed Kopp Bach flows through the Ruhr and the Rhine.

Hiking

Along the Schmala and specifically extend over the adjacent mountains hiking trails that you can explore the countryside. Due to the northern and southern valley and over the mountains west of the creek located introduces a section of running mostly on the main ridge of the Rothaargebirge Rothaarsteig. Located along this trail above the source area of the Schmala and so south-southwest of the hopper head summit a place of execution (an ancient court of justice of the Kurkölner Montgoger Report Creation ), which is located just southeast of the state border on the Hessian territory at 762.6 m height ( instead of 800 m according to the inscription of the bronze plaque ).