Saale (Leine)
| Saale | ||
 Saale near Saalemühle |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 48856 | |
| location | in Lower Saxony | |
| River system | Weser | |
| Drain over | Leine → Aller → Weser → North Sea | |
| source | Vossborn in Holzen 51 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 37 ″ E |
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| Source height | 255.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | at Elze in the Leine coordinates: 52 ° 7 '56 " N , 9 ° 45' 13" E 52 ° 7 '56 " N , 9 ° 45' 13" E |
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| Mouth height | 73 m | |
| Height difference | 182.7 m | |
| Bottom slope | 5.8 ‰ | |
| length | 31.5 km (with the longest source stream 33 km) |
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| Catchment area | 202 km² | |
| Discharge at the Mehle A Eo gauge : 136 km² Location: 6.3 km above the mouth |
NNQ (07.09.2013) MNQ 1962/2014 MQ 1962/2014 Mq 1962/2014 MHQ 1962/2014 HHQ (22.08.2007) |
79 l / s 253 l / s 1.35 m³ / s 9.9 l / (s km²) 19.8 m³ / s 49.4 m³ / s |
| Small towns | Elze | |
The Saale is a 31 km long left tributary of the Leine in Lower Saxony.
Its main source is the Vossborn at 255.7 m above sea level in the Ithwiesen nature reserve on the northern slope of the Ith , which is part of the municipality of Holzen . A nameless little stream flows past below the source, the rearmost source of which with the water code 4885611222 has a flow path of 33 km to the Leine.
The Saale first flows 300 m to the valley floor and then in a north to north-westerly direction east past the villages of Capellenhagen and Fölziehausen , crosses under the B 240 and flows one kilometer afterwards through the Humboldtsee , west of the Duinger Seenplatte in the municipality of Salzhemmendorf . After Wallensen and Ockensen , it reaches the core town of Salzhemmendorf and turns north-east from there, then at Hemmendorf in an easterly direction between Kanstein and Osterwald towards the Leine glacial valley. On this way it flows through the villages of Oldendorf and Benstorf . Shortly before Quanthof, the floodplain flows into the Saale. Then it touches the towns of Quanthof, Sehlde and the Saalemühle, only to flow into the Leine near Elze .
Surname
The name Saale can be interpreted as a “river with willows” or as a salty river (see Salzhemmendorf), such as Halle an der Saale (the “salt town on the salt river”) and the Saalach , which flows through Bad Reichenhall to Salzburg . The Franconian Saale also flows through a salt region: near Bad Neustadt there is Salzburg Castle and the village of Salz .
Tributaries
| Surname | location | Catchment area |
|---|---|---|
| Sackwiesen ditch | Left | 2 km² |
| Thüster Beeke | right | 20 km² |
| Lauensteiner Bach | Left | 12 km² |
| Aue | Left | 27 km² |
| Akebeke | right | 40 km² |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lower Saxony environmental maps with layers: DTK25, water network, hierarchical area directory 1–4, municipalities
- ↑ a b Drawn GPS track: Saale from Voßborn to Leine
- ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, p. 200, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).
- ↑ Drawn GPS track: Saale (Leine) with source 4885611222