Ennepe

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Ennepe (disambiguation) .

Ennepe
The Ennepe in Gevelsberg
Data
Water code	DE : 27688
location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Ennepe-Ruhr district
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Volme  → Ruhr  → Rhine  → North Sea
source	between Halver - Bergfeld and - Burg 51 ° 10 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 14 ″  E
Source height	422  m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Hagen - Eckesey in the Volme coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 16"  E 51 ° 21 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 16"  E
Mouth height	99  m above sea level NN
Height difference	323 m
Bottom slope	7.7 ‰
length	42.1 km
Catchment area	187.554 km²
Discharge at the Hagen-Haspe A Eo gauge : 156 km² Location: 4 km above the mouth	NNQ (1959) MNQ MQ Mq MHQ HHQ (1960)	132 l / s 570 l / s 3.44 m³ / s 22.1 l / (s km²) 39.4 m³ / s 161 m³ / s
Big cities	Hagen
Medium-sized cities	Radevormwald , Ennepetal , Gevelsberg
Small towns	Halver , Breckerfeld

The Ennepe is a tributary of the Volme on the northwestern edge of the Sauerland and in the southern Ruhr area .

geography

course

The Ennepe rises in the Märkischer Kreis southeast of the city of Halver at an altitude of 425  m above sea level. NN and is dammed in the urban area from Breckerfeld to the Ennepetalsperre ( 307  m above sea level ).

The further course leads over Ennepetal , Gevelsberg and the western Hagener district Haspe , before near the Hagen main train station in the Eckesey district at about 100  m above sea level. NN flows into the Volme , which in turn flows into the Ruhr shortly afterwards in Hagen-Vorhalle .

• Impressions from the Ennepe
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  Board for the headwaters of the Ennepe in the nature reserve near Halver

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  One of the four Ennep springs

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  Ennepetalsperre in Breckerfeld

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  Ennepe in Westerbauer

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  Ennepe in Hasp

Length of the individual sections of the Ennepe (with kilometrage [Stat.] And length information in km)

Sections of the Ennepe

section	Stat. [Ennepe-km]	Length [km]
from the source to the Ennepetalsperre	42.1 0- 31.55	10.55
Ennepetalsperre	31.55 - 27.50	04.05
from the Ennepetalsperre to the mouth	27.5 0- 00.00	27.50
overall length	42.1 0- 00.00	42.10

nature and environment

Protected areas

Some sections of the Ennepe are located in different protected areas: In Halver, a little below the headwaters, the Wilde Ennepe nature reserve is designated; the further course in the urban area lies in the extensive landscape protection area Märkischer Kreis (LSG 4512-0004). In Breckerfeld there is the nature reserve Tal der Ennepe (NSG EN-030) and other areas, including the Ennepetalsperre, are located in the large Breckerfeld nature reserve (LSG 4610-026). In Ennepetal there is the nature reserve Tal der Ennepe (NSG EN-028), which extends along the river to Gut Ahlhausen . In Breckerfeld and Ennepetal, large parts of the two neighboring nature reserves Tal der Ennepe are under protection as FFH area DE-4710-301 Ennepe below the dam ; these river sections are thus part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas . In the further course the Ennepe, partly canalized, passes the town centers of Ennepetal and Gevelsberg. Up to the confluence with the Volme there are two more short sections in the landscape protection areas north of Gevelsberg in Gevelsberg and Tücking / Auf der Halle and the surrounding area (LSG 4610-019) in Hagen.

Flora and fauna

Although channeled in places, the Ennepe offers a habitat for numerous animal and plant species. In addition to rats, fish and birds such as B. ducks and railing as well as isolated gray herons , dipper and kingfisher native. Among the plants in the Hagen city area, the glandular balsam should be mentioned as a neophyte .

use

In the pre-industrial age mills , hammer mills and scythe smiths were built along the river , on which the Brandenburg small iron industry of the 19th and 20th centuries was based ( Enneperstraße ). At the beginning of the 20th century there were around 300 small businesses along the Ennepe, the main driving force of which was hydropower.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ ^{a b} Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ↑ German Hydrological Yearbook 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Ennepe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The level of the Ennepe