Itter (Eder)

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Itter
Data
Water code DE : 428531
location District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany )
River system Weser
Drain over Eder  → Fulda  → Weser  → North Sea
source at upper Ense am Berg Wiperich
51 ° 14 '8 "  N , 8 ° 50' 6"  O
Source height approx.  390  m above sea level NHN 
muzzle near Vöhl - Herzhausen
in the Edersee or the Eder coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 35 ″  E 51 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 35 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  245  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 145 m
Bottom slope approx. 13 ‰
length 11.6 km
Catchment area 76.131 km²
Left tributaries Marbeck , Kuhbach
Right tributaries Alte Itter, Wennebach (with side stream from Lingenscheid)
Medium-sized cities Korbach
Communities Vöhl

The Itter is a 11.6 km long, northern and orographically left tributary of the Edersee or the Eder in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse ( Germany ). It flows through the area of ​​the former medieval Ittergau, named after it .

course

The Itter rises west of Ober-Ense , a south-south-west district of Korbach . Their source is about 390  m above sea level. NHN south of Wiperich ( 423.3  m ), a south-southeastern neighbor of the Eisenberg (approx.  562  m ).

The Itter initially flows in an easterly direction via Ober- to Nieder-Ense , where the small Alte Itter joins on the right. The Marbeck flows in from the north below the village , after which the Itter runs through Dorfitter . Then it absorbs the water of the Kuhbach coming from the north in the direction of Korbach . It then flows south through a deeply cut valley in sections. Below Thalitter , a district of Vöhl , flows above the Scheuermühle from the west to the Wennebach , which has previously taken up the Lingenscheid tributary .

Finally, the Itter reaches the Vöhler district of Herzhausen , where it flows into the Eder from the left at the north-western border of the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park at an altitude of about 245  m at its inlet into the western end of the Edersee .

Catchment area and tributaries

The tributaries of the Itter, whose catchment area covers 76.131 km², include the Alte Itter , the Marbeck , the Kuhbach and the tributary of Lingenscheid .

Gold prospecting

Together with the then village teacher from Marienhagen , a district of Vöhl , school children from the village and children from Duisburg who spent their holidays in one of the country school homes mined for tiny pieces of gold in the Itter until the 1970s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )