Wehmerhorster Bach
The Wehmerhorster Bach on entering the meadow valley
The Wehmerhorster Bach is a left tributary of the Schierenbeke in Roedinghausen in the District of Herford, North Rhine -Westphalia. From the local population it is called in Ränkhiuser Platt, a variant of the Ravens Berger Platt, Biäke, high German " Bach".
The Wehmerhorster creek rises southwest of the mash mountain in Wiehengebirge on a source height of 156 m above sea level. NN. The river has a total length of 1.5 km and flows away in a southeasterly direction from Wiehengebirge. It ends at Schierenbeke -Bach 0.8 km at an altitude of about 90 m above sea level. NN in the skis Becke. On its way it flows through the natural Wehmerhorster meadow valley, which is designated as a nature reserve.
The nature reserve Wehmerhorster meadow valley along the Wehmerhorster creek and the small lateral valleys has to be managed a size of about 19 ha in the headwaters especially the meadow-like floodplain in semi-natural state and in the lower reaches of the so typical for the Ravens Berger country Siektal. The Auengrünland the lower course is designed as a flower- rich moist or wet grassland. The upper course has valuable copses and forests, especially beech stands on.
The meadow valley
See also
- List of waters in East Westphalia -Lippe