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Consecration is a 11.5 km long, left or western tributary of the river Werra in Hersfeld -Rotenburg in Hessen and in the Wartburg district in Thuringia.

Consecration has a catchment area of ​​approximately 64 km ², of which about 60 % to the Suhl, which thus represents the actual main river; their discharge is 344 l / s

Course

The consecration originates in Richelsdorfer Mountains. Your source lies to the east of the village on the eastern flank of the Bauhaus Bauhäuser height ( 416.3 m above sea level. NN ).

Initially, the consecration flows southeasterly direction through the village Sweet, after which it passes the Richelsdorfer hut and runs through Richelsdorf. Then the stream is heading for the Hessian- Thuringian border. According to their respective crosses and passing under the motorway 4 on the ordination Viaduct and the Thuringian Railway (each section between Gerstungen and Wildeck - Obersuhl ) flows through the consecration Untersuhl to shortly take up the coming of the West Suhl.

Then the consecration bends to the north-north- east to 800 m after crossing the branching of the aforementioned Thüringer Bahn railway Gerstungen - Vacha to open ( freight) in the coming here from the south Werra.