Stever

Stever at a water mill near its source

The Stever is about 58 km long, right-side tributary of the lip in North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ). The river valley from its source to its mouth is since time immemorial Stevergau called, which forms the landscape of southern Munster country together with the Dreingau.

Course

The Stever arises between Munster and Coesfeld, near the tree mountain watershed. Other water flows whose sources are nearby, flow through it in a completely different paths to the sea.

Below the Westerbergs with the Longinusturm is the source of the Stever on the southwest slope of the tree in mountains about 130 meters above sea level at the Bispinghöfen in Uphoven northwest of the small peasantry Stevern in the nature reserve Steverquelle. The pent-up source pond formerly served as fire water pond, livestock watering and fish tanks. Several basic sources and seeps pour so strong that the small clot quickly becomes a lush creek that shortly thereafter sufficient to drive the first water mill in Stevern.

One of the basic sources

From there, the Stever flows freely meandering south through meadows and fields on Appelhülsen after sending, where it feeds several lakes and moats in the public park and at the sending castle, the castle of her flowing Dummer Bach. Then the Stever the Dortmund -Ems Canal and the oxbow lake of the channel ( Old way) crosses under two canal bridges in a southerly direction to the right side Nonnenbach and the coming of Hiddingsel Kleuter Bach record on their way to Luedinghausen.

In Luedinghausen (52 m above sea level. NN ) divides the Stever and flows through the city with three arms ( Vischeringsche Stever, Mühlenstever, Ostenstever ). Before unite the Vischeringsche Stever and Mühlenstever in the south of the city center to the Old Stever, feeds the water of the former moats of the water castles Vischering and Luedinghausen. About one kilometer after the formation of the Old Stever unites it with the Ostenstever only in the 1930s artificial because of the floods occur regularly, and the river leaves Luedinghausen again as Stever.

Moat castle Vischering

Moat castle Luedinghausen

Then the left side opens the Bever creek, and shortly thereafter on the right side of Sepp Rader Bach. From the North Area Churches flow to the left side nor the devil Bach and the Flothbach. After two further tributaries without the name Stever takes further south on the left side coming from the Selm Funne and Ternsche as the end of the Ternscher lake on. Then she crossed the Dortmund -Ems Canal and the Old ride one more time; this time in East-West direction. The Stever flows through under the lovely arch bridge in the old drive. North of Olfen (40 m above sea level. NN ), where she was renatured to Steveraue, it flows past the Füchtelner mill feeds the Hullerner Reservoir ( at Hullern ) and the Haltern reservoir in which the mill stream flowing into it on the right side.

Canal bridge the old drive over the Stever

Steveraue in Olfen

Stever in Haltern am See

Just below the dam, it opens in 34 m height in Haltern am See in the lip.

The catchment area of ​​the Stever was from 2006 to 2007, a pilot project of the state government of NRW for the EU Water Framework Directive. Based on the pilot project " Programme of measures in the catchment area of the Stever " the handbook of the Federal Environmental Agency has been revised and tested for the situation in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Mills

As in the Munsterland usual, the watercourse has been used by numerous mills, here is an excerpt:

  • Watermill in Stevern at the court Schulze- Westerath, Stevern 37, earliest documented mention as a mill in 1599
  • Pin mill and Westerodemühle in Stevern
  • Water mill of the house wholesale Schonebeck near Appelhülsen
  • Grain and oil mill of the house Vischering
  • Mill domkapitularischen " Borg " ( administrative seat of the district Rentmeisters ) in Luedinghausen
  • Füchtelner mill

Towns

  • Nottuln
  • Send
  • Luedinghausen
  • Selm
  • Olfen
  • Haltern am See

Inflows

The following list contains all inflows of at least 20 km ² catchment area:

  • Helmer Bach (left, 2788-2, 15.8 km, 33.5 km ²; Submit Bösensell )
  • Dumber (left, 2788-32, 14.2 km, 32.0 km ²)
  • Nonnenbach (right, 2788-34, 21.7 km, 36.8 km ²)
  • Kleuterbach (right, 2788-4, 24.8 km, 118.4 km ²) Hagenbach (left, 27884-4, 10.3 km, 25.4 km ²)
Lippe (river) Longinus Tower Baumberge Senden, North Rhine-Westphalia Dortmund–Ems Canal Vischering Castle
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