Bega (Werre)

	Bega
	The Bega in Bad Salzuflen just before the mouth of the Werre
	Data
Water code	EN : 462
location	District of Lippe , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system	Weser
Drain over	Werre → Weser → North Sea
source	South of Barntrup ; 51 ° 58 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 7 ′ 48 ″ E
Source height	approx. 248 m above sea level NN
muzzle	In Bad Salzuflen in the Werre Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 39 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 25" E 52 ° 4 ′ 39 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 25" E;
Mouth height	approx. 71 m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 177 m
Bottom slope	approx. 4 ‰
length	43.9 km
Catchment area	376.727 km²

Course of the Bega

The Bega ( Low German : Biege ) is a 43.9 km long orographically right or eastern tributary of the Werre , a left tributary of the Weser . It flows in the Lipper Bergland in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . Its catchment area covers 376.7 km².

Surname

The name of the Bega was first mentioned in a document in 1345 as “twisschen der Beghe”, and for 1405 “up de south der Beghe”, then at the beginning of the 17th century as “Die Bege”, “bey der Bege” (1614), in die Bege ”,“ die Bege up ”(1635). Documents from the early 13th century (and others in the following centuries) are associated with the place name Bega . The meaning of the name goes back to the Germanic form * baki- transparent for “Bach”. Old Saxon and Low German derivatives, especially in the Lippe dialect, are the forms beki , beke , bi (e) ke . The spellings of the older and oldest document forms with -g- and -gh- stand for a shifted Germanic -k- to -ch- as the central German forms * bechi , beche show.

course

Bega through Lemgo

The Bega rises in the eastern part of the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge nature park, southeast of the city center of Barntrup . Its source is in the northern part of the Blomberger Stadtwald between the nearby Steinberg ( 281.6 m above sea level ) in the northwest and the Birkenberg ( 296.2 m above sea level ) in the south at around 238 m above sea level. NN .

Initially, the Bega, which runs mainly in an east-southeast-west-north-west direction, flows north parallel to the course of federal highway 1 . After a few kilometers of the river , roughly at the level of Oesterröden, the river turns west and first flows south past Barntrup and then through the west-southwestern districts.

Then the Bega passes the church village Bega of the municipality Dörentrup , touches the Dörentruper district Humfeld in the south, passes the Wendlinghausen locality Sporkholz in the south and the Dörentruper Kernort in the north.

On Lemgo city the Bega takes north of the district Voßheide the Passade and flows through the Lemgoer nucleus. After confluence with the Ilse coming from the north, it touches the Lieme district to the south , where the Oetternbach flows from the south .

From here the Bega flows in a north-westerly direction and flows through the Bad Salzuflen districts Grastrup-Hölsen and Schötmar , to the south-west of the Bad Salzuflen town center, after taking in the salts flowing in from the north , at the Werre river kilometer 30.3 in the one coming from there from the south Weser tributary Werre at about 71 m above sea level. NN to flow .

River system

At the confluence with the Werre in Bad Salzuflen, the Bega carries more water with an average of 4.6 m³ / s than the Werre with an average discharge of 2.9 m³ / s. The main strand of the Werre river system runs over them . In addition, up to this point the Bega has covered a longer flow distance of 43.9 km than the Werre with 41.6 km.

environment

In the upper reaches the Bega meanders strongly and is in a near-natural condition. In addition to extensive beech stocks and other spring areas, there are rare plants and animals. Therefore, in 1996 the Begatal was placed under nature protection.

It comprises the approximately 21 km long stretch of water and valley area of the Bega with a size of 497 hectares from the source areas in the Blomberger Stadtwald to Brake Castle in Lemgo. The Bega is moderately polluted almost in its entire course and is therefore assigned to water quality class II. Only between the Lemgo industrial park west of the city center and the mouth of the Ilse is the water quality somewhat worse. The Bega shows itself to be critically polluted here (water quality class II-III).

Flood protection

Rapid, violent floods can occur at the Bega. Therefore, a flood retention basin with a storage capacity of 2,582,000 m³ was created in 1997 southeast of Bad Salzuflen . It holds back water from a 294 km² catchment area and is intended to protect Bad Salzuflen and Schötmar from flooding .

tourism

The Brake Castle , built in the Weser Renaissance style, and the mill museum there are nearby .

Tributaries

The following table contains a selection of Bega tributaries - listed in the order from the source to the mouth. In each case, the orographic location, the mouth position with indication of the stationing kilometer, the length, the size of the catchment area, the mouth height and the waterway code are mentioned.

Surname	location	Position [km]	Length [km]	Catchment area [km²]	Mouth height [m. ü. NN]	DGKZ
NN	right	42.3	1.0	0.37	192	462111
NN	Left	41.9	1.5	1.13	187	4621114
Hahnenbach	Left	40.5	1.9	1.31	184	4621116
Same corner	Left	39.5	2.2	2.86	174	4621118
Eichelbach	right	39.0	2.8	11.53	162	462112
Bentrup Bach	Left	37.5	3.2	5.07	152	4621132
NN	right	36.9	1.8	3.42	148	4621134
Hume	right	34.6	4.2	5.34	140	462114
NN	right	33.1	3.6	3.49	135	462116
Diebkebach	Left	32.2	3.8	4.11	133	46212
NN	Left	32.0	1.35	0.83	130	462132
Hillbach	right	28.6	5.1	14.00	123	46214
Maibolte	right	27.2	4.4	6.14	119	46216
Passade	Left	23.7	15.1	67.89	104	4622
NN	right	22.9	2.2	1.26	103	4623112
Bornsiekbach / Thronsbach	right	22.4	3.9	2.22	102	4623114
NN	right	21.6	2.6	1.19	100	4623116
Sugehohlbach	right	20.4	3.0	1.36	99	4623118
Langenkampsbach	Left	20.0	3.1	4.69	96	462312
Butterbach	Left	16.7	1.1	1.79	90	4623192
Old river	right	15.6	5.7	6.4	89	4623194
Linnebach	Left	14.4	7.4	13.96	87	46232
Ilse	right	12.0	15.04	52.92	84	4624
Oetterbach	Left	11.4	16.7	34.89	83	4626
Haustenbach	Left	8.6	3.0	4.32	80	462712
Rhienbach	right	4.6	5.7	16.42	75	46272
Moddenbach	Left	4.4	3.2	6.15	74	46274
Ehrser Bach	right	3.0	4.2	3.64	74	462792
Brederbach	right	1.4	3.1	2.05	71	462794
Salts	right	0.4	15.0	49.02	70	4628

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c German basic map 1: 5,000

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW

^ German Hydrological Yearbook Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation, p. 165, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).

↑ Lindemannsheide gauge value increased by the drainage of the remaining catchment area (12.1 1 / s.km² on 82.5 km²), derived from the values of the enclosing intermediate catchment area of the Pottenhausen (Werre), Lindemannsheide new (Bega) and Ahmsen (Werre) gauges

^ Albrecht Greule: German water names book. Etymology of the water body names and the associated area, settlement and field names. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-019039-7 , p. 54.

^ BUND Lemgo

↑ Water quality map district Lippe 2008

↑ Detmold district government ( Memento from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

↑ MULF NRW: ELWAS card , basic data - Compressed basins; accessed on April 20, 2018

Web links

Commons : Bega - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bega water levels
Natura 2000 area DE-3919-302 in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

[DGK5-1] German basic map 1: 5,000

[TIM-2] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW

[DE-NI_GKJB-14165-3] German Hydrological Yearbook Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation, p. 165, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).