Rhume

Rhume
The Rhumewehr in Elvershausen
Data
Water code	EN : 4882
location	Europe , Germany , Lower Saxony
River system	Weser
Drain over	Leine  → Aller  → Weser  → North Sea
source	At Rhumspringe 51 ° 35 ′ 23 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 36 ″  E
Source height	160  m above sea level NN
Spring discharge	MQ	2 m³ / s
muzzle	Leine near Northeim Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '47 "  N , 9 ° 56' 59"  E 51 ° 43 '47 "  N , 9 ° 56' 59"  E
Mouth height	116  m above sea level NN
Height difference	44 m
Bottom slope	0.92 ‰
length	48 km
Catchment area	1,193.4 km²
Discharge at the Northeim A Eo gauge : 1176 km². Location: 5.1 km above the mouth	NNQ (18.09.2012) MNQ 1994/2014 MQ 1994/2014 Mq 1994/2014 MHQ 1994/2014 HHQ (30.09.2007)	3.38 m³ / s 6.31 m³ / s 15.7 m³ / s 13.4 l / (s km²) 107 m³ / s 168 m³ / s
Left tributaries	Eller , Hahle
Right tributaries	Or , honey
Medium-sized cities	Northeim

Main source of the Rhume spring

The Rhume a few meters behind their source

The Rhume in winter in Katlenburg

The Rhume is an approximately 48 km long right tributary of the Leine in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

Its source is one of the richest karst springs in Central Europe . It is fed by underground tributaries from water-rich Harz rivers .

source

→ Main article : Rhumequelle

The source of the Rhume is located in the eastern part of the Rotenberg ridge not far from the north-eastern outskirts of Rhumspringe and can be reached in a few minutes from a car park.

course

After its source, the Rhume flows through Rhumspringe and then mainly in a north-westerly direction south past the Rotenberg ridge, including via Gieboldehausen and Bilshausen to Lindau and Katlenburg . There it absorbs the Oder , which is not only significantly longer, but also carries more water, although it has already lost large amounts of water to the area underground. A few kilometers below, the Rhume receives another powerful inflow from the Harz with the Söse . Finally it joins the Leine coming from the south , a little northwest of Northeim, directly on the A 7 . With an annual mean of 16.5 m³ / s (Northeim gauge), it carries significantly more water than the Leine (9.8 m³ / s).

Localities

Localities on the Rhume are:

• Jump around
• Rudershausen
• Wollershausen
• Gieboldehausen
• Bilshausen
• Lindau
• Wachenhausen
• Katlenburg
• Berka
• Elvershausen
• Northeim

Tributaries

Tributaries of the Rhume are (the mouth in brackets) :

Left	right
Eller (Rüdershausen) Hahle (Gieboldehausen) Oehrsche Beeke (Bilshausen) Gillersheimer Bach (Lindau) Katlenbach (Katlenburg) Hammenstedter Bach (Hammenstedt) Horlingsgraben ( Northeim )	Crab Pit (Rhumspringe) Weiherbach (Rüdershausen) Hühnerbach (Wollershausen) Linnebach (Wollershausen) Bremkebach (Gieboldehausen) Süttenbach (Gieboldehausen) Or (Katlenburg) Landwehrbach (Berka) Söse (Elvershausen) Elvershausen Bach (Elvershausen) Schlerrbach (Elvershausen) Süßmilchbach (Hammenstedt) Uhbach ( Northeim )

water sports

The Rhume can be used all year round with restrictions with kayaks and canoes , which can be rented near the sports field in Northeim , for example. It has a good flow rate and has some small surges. However, a filling in Katlenburg behind the road bridge is quite demanding. You can occasionally see white water canoes practicing here. While the source area and the upper reaches from kilometers 0 to 5.8 are closed all year round, the section from kilometers 5.8 to 9.0 can be used between May 15 and December 31.

Hydropower

In Northeim, the water from the Rhume is used to generate electricity in a run-of-river power plant with an output of 650 kW. There are also smaller power plants in Elvershausen and Katlenburg.

natural reserve

The Rhume offers with its floodplain endangered species such as the kingfisher , the brook lamprey , the Koppe and other habitat and is therefore part of a protected area under the Habitats Directive have been reported. The Rhume is part of the nature reserve Rhumeaue / Ellerniederung / Gillersheimer Bachtal .

Web links

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

• Description at karstwanderweg.de
• Private website for the Rhume source
• High water level in Elvershausen of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
• Nature reserve Rhumeaue / Ellerniederung / Gillersheimer Bachtal on the website of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and water indicators. (Directory and map). Jena 1998, DNB 956420745 .
2. ^ Deutsches Gewässerkundliches Jahrbuch Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation, p. 194, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).
3. ↑ after investigations for a hydrological simulation ( Diss. Bonn 2003)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ bsc: Rhume ensures green electricity in the city In: Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 81 of April 6, 2011, p. 1.
5. ↑ Kristian Schlegel: Hydropower is on the rise In: Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 81 of April 6, 2011, p. 2.