Trüfte

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The Trüfte, also called Trufte is a 8.9 km (measured from the headwaters of its central source Bach Mittelstenahe ) long, left or northern tributary of the Eder in Rothaargebirge district of Siegen -Wittgenstein in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Course

The headwaters of the running exclusively in the district of Bad Berleburg in the Rothaargebirge Nature Park Trüfte - Österze (also called Osterzebach, 3.5 km long), Mittelstenahe ( called on the German base map also Trüfte; 2.7 km ) and Westerze (also Westerzebach called; 3.4 km ) - spring in a wooded area on the Südostabdachung the Rothaargebirge main ridge ( Rothaarkamm ): on the southwest flank of the Great head ( 740.3 m above sea level ) the Westerze, on its eastern flank and the middle one between this mountain. and the north-east which are situated further Saukopf ( 716.3 m above sea level. NN ) the Österze.

The three Trüfte source streams, which was founded in the context of Mittelstenahe and Österze from the 2004 and 38.4 km ² nature reserve Rothaarkamm on Grenzweg ( NSG-Nr. 329 598 ) come to leave the Rothaarkamm in southern directions. First of all flow together Österze and Mittelstenahe, then after about 350 m from the northwest added the Westerze. From there, the Trüfte continues to flow southwestward through a wooded area of ​​the Park.

Then the Trüfte passed the hamlet winter Scheid to little further south of it in Trufte which directly west adjoins Bergshausen to open into the coming about there from the west Fulda inflow Eder.

Hydrology

The lake has a fairly positive water quality. It is consistently the water quality class I-II associated, corresponding to a lack of biological pollution.