Schweinfe

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The Schweinfe is a western, orographic right tributary of the Wohra in Hesse, Germany. It belongs therefore, on Wohra, ohms and Lahn, to the river system of the Rhine.

Data

The Schweinfe ( DGKZ 25828-2 ) is a body of water III. Order. It is 13.4 km long and has a catchment area of ​​54.59 km ². It opens into Gemünden at a height of 249 m above sea mouth. NN in the Wohra. The river discharge ( MQ ) is 412 liters / second. The height difference from source to mouth is about 225 m, where it is dealt with primarily in the headwaters to Old Haina.

Course

The Schweinfe rises immediately south of the B 253 about 1.5 km northwest of Löhlbach in the basement Forest and flows at first, taking up several small tributaries, in a narrow valley between Horse Mountain (551 m ) in the west and Ebelsberg (514 m) ( with the remains the Aulesburg ) in the east to the southwest. It bends to the south of the Owl Mountain (511 m) shortly before county road 101 to the southeast in order and then flows in a generally southerly direction past the Old Haina, Cherry Orchard and Halgehausen, then in a south-easterly direction past Bocksdorf, Sehlen and Grüsen up to Gemünden where they almost due south from its source discharges into the cause coming from the north Wohra. From Old to Haina Bocksdorf the Schweinfe of the K 101 from Bocksdorf to Gemünden is (mostly left side) accompanied by the L 3073.

Along the way she picks up a number of small streams. The two most important are the 5.12 km long " stream of Römershausen " coming in from the northwest at Bocksdorf, and " the " (local - dialectal feature ) coming from the west, 9.3 km long " Wood Creek " ( TVC 2582828 ) that it receives about 100 meters in front of her own mouth into the Wohra.

In Gemünden the Schweinfe is divided into two arms. The western is the mill race, about 3 m higher than the eastern, runs like the Wohra in the valley bottom, and drove since the Middle Ages, the Gemündener mills. The bed of the stream Wood was 1913/14, about 150 meters south of the railway station Gemünder placed deeper in the construction of Wohratalbahn after Kirchhain to be passed under the railway embankment. In order for the Wood Creek had to cross under the Schweinfe Aqueduct and the Schweinfe and the mill stream, in which she had been turned ends, and now since the lowering it flows about 80 m further east in the parallel arm of Schweinfe.

Natural environment and environmental

The Schweinfe rises in the cellar forest, then forms but with their lower reaches and with the stream of Römershausen the eastern boundary of the Castle Forest and the western basement of the Forest. The valley, which accompanied the above Gemünden Schweinfe from Old Haina and the Wohra from monastery Haina is called Stained Truth ( natural area 345.4 ). Stained Truth is part of the Castle Forest and extends to the northwest along the stream of Römershausen bach up until after Römershausen and Hauberner hedge, the saddle between Castle Forest and cellar woods at the Rhein -Weser watershed. From the Schweinfe estuary downstream represents the Wohratal has its own natural space is ( 345.3 ), which is also expected to Castle Forest.

The Schweinfe is - as well as the Wood Creek - an excellent trout water. Its running is partially lined with ecologically important depth of Nauen and, in the upper reaches of highly erodible slopes.