Wohra (Ohm)

The Wohra in the Hessian counties Waldeck- Frankenberg and Marburg -Biedenkopf is an orographic right side and north and with approximately 33.8 km flow path is the longest tributary of the ohm.

Course

The Wohra rises in the cellar forest about 1 km north-northwest of Battenhausen, an eastern suburb of Haina. Its source is located 1.5 km north of the 656.7 m high Hohen Lohr and 1 km south-east of the Great Keppel mountain ( 490.1 m) on the eastern slope of a 541.5 -meter-high mountain.

In its running quite the Nature Park basement Edersee headwaters of the Wohra flows around their source Berg initially in the form of an open south-facing semi-circle counterclockwise to finally leave in southwestern directions the basement forest in Haina, where she passed the deserted village Elberode slightly south.

From the Haina Wohra now moved exclusively in southern directions, the Wohratal is about the boundary between the castle forest in the west and the cellar forest in the east.

From Gemünden represents the valley of Wohra no longer the eastern border of the forest to the castle cellar forest is but to the Gilserberger heights as the northern part of the running in the direction Vogelsberg Oberhessischen threshold is also called. Here it flows through the communities Wohratal and Rauschenberg and ends just below and south-west of the church grove in the Lahn- inflow ohms.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​Wohra comprises around 285 km ². Its main tributaries from its source to its confluence with the ohms are: ( Dashes inserted for a better overview and to sort downriver are in the DGKZ digits after 25828 - - Wohra! )

Catchment and natural areas

All tributaries above the Schweinfe arise from the (Central ) Basement forest ( natural area 344.1 ). Although the Schweinfe itself, however, arises from the cellar forest, forms, however, from the influx of springing in the extreme northeast of the castle forest creek from Römershausen (from right) and around this river to the northwest extends the boundary between Castle and cellar woods (stained Truth, natural area 345.4, is the castle Forest attributed ).

From the Schweinfe estuary represents the Wohratal has its own natural space is ( 345.3, also Castle Forest), which the "actual" castle forest ( 345.1-345.2 ) in the west, all right tributaries are from now on, separated from the Gilserberger heights in the East, which are all left tributaries. The inflow of the calf creek from the right finally marks the transition from Northern Castle Forest ( 345.1 ) for only wooded in parts of Southern ( 345.2 ).

Mills

Along the Wohra there are numerous mills.

  • Dorfmühle Haina
  • Hörlemühle
  • Suppression Warper
  • Schneidemühle
  • Aumuehle Gemünden
  • Struth mill
  • Mill in the Ratz ( at Wohra )
  • Power station Halsdorf
  • Wambach Mill
  • Narrow Eicher mill
  • Hardtmühle
  • Paper mill in Kirchhain
  • Great Mill in Kirchhain
Ohm (river) Kellerwald Town Rauschenberg, Hesse Municipality Orography Bentreff Josbach (Wohra)
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