Grane (river)

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Grane
The grane before entering the reservoir.

The grane before entering the reservoir.

Data
Water code DE : 488618
location In the district of Goslar
River system Weser
Drain over Innerste  → Leine  → Aller  → Weser  → North Sea
source At Hahnenklee in the Upper Harz
Source height approx.  540  m above sea level NN
muzzle At Langelsheim in the innermost coordinates: 51 ° 56 '18 "  N , 10 ° 20' 42"  E 51 ° 56 '18 "  N , 10 ° 20' 42"  E
Mouth height 194  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 346 m
Bottom slope approx. 39 ‰
length 8.9 km
Catchment area 45.07 km²
Left tributaries Varleybach, Töllebach
Reservoirs flowed through Granestausee
Small towns Langelsheim
Communities Herzog Juliushütte , Astfeld

The Grane is a right tributary of the Innerste west and northwest of Goslar .

It rises near Hahnenklee in the Upper Harz and flows into the Innerste approx. 12 km later at Langelsheim . In Herzog Juliushütte , municipality of Astfeld near Goslar, it is dammed to form the Granetalsperre .

Its catchment area is around 45 km², 22 of which are up to the dam.

  • Postcard batch in Granethal around 1900 by Karl Friedrich Wunder

  • Around 1900: deforestation , soil erosion and two watercourses in the former Granethal (near the hunting lodge); Postcard from Karl Friedrich Wunder

  • The Alex spring feeds the upper reaches of the river between Hahnenklee and the Granetalsperre

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony: Top 50 - Topographic Map 1: 50,000 Lower Saxony / Bremen , as of 2000.
  2. ↑ NLWKN : Inventory of the implementation of the EC Water Framework Directive, processing area Innerste , Braunschweig November 2004, Table 3, added WK 20037 and 20043.
  3. ↑ a b Area Directory / Weser (PDF; 13 MB), Geosum