Wiera (Schwalm)

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The Wiera is a nearly 15 -km-long, left or south-westerly flow of Schwalm the Hessian counties Marburg -Biedenkopf and Schwalm -Eder.

Course

The Wiera rises near the Rhine -Weser watershed in New Town saddle in the central part of the Oberhessischen threshold between cities Stadtallendorf and New Town in Marburg- Biedenkopf. Your source is located in the district of Stadtallendorf, but after almost 300 m of mainly flowing in a northeasterly direction Bach reached the area of Neustadt. There, it flows through the core city, and then reached the place named after him Wiera, Town of Schwalm town in the Schwalm- Eder-Kreis. In the district Treysa Wiera finally flows into the Schwalm.

The Wiera is accompanied throughout their running between the Rhine -Weser watershed and Treysa of the Main- Weser Railway.

Its most important tributary is the above the village Wiera from left opens out hard water. The catchment area of ​​Wiera is the only part of the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf, which drains to the Weser out the rest of the county is drained by the river Lahn to the Rhine.