Scheldt (dill)

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Scheldt
Data
Water code DE : 258456
location Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Dill  → Lahn  → Rhine  → North Sea
source northeastern Schelder Forest , Gladenbacher Bergland , 1.3 km southwest of the Angelburg
50 ° 46 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 46 ″  E
Source height approx.  523  m above sea level NN
muzzle Dillenburg - Niederscheld in the Dill coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  E 50 ° 43 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  E
Mouth height 218  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 305 m
Bottom slope approx. 25 ‰
length 12 km
Catchment area 35.028 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 35.028 km²
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
Mq
 		22 l / s
426 l / s
12.2 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Tringensteiner Scheldt
Right tributaries Eibach

The 12 km long Scheldt is a left tributary of the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district, Central Hesse . It is the central river of the Schelder Forest, named after it, in the west of the Gladenbacher Bergland , which it flows through from northeast to southwest and finally flows south of Dillenburg .

geography

course

The source of the Scheldt is located southwest not far from the Angelburg , the highest elevation in the Gladenbacher Bergland at 609 m, and in the vicinity of the Gansbach -Quelllauf on the district of Hirzenhain (train station), municipality of Eschenburg . In the following course, initially to the west- south-west, the border to the neighboring municipality of Siegbach briefly crosses the bank before the river bends to the south-west and reaches the Dillenburg district, which it will not leave until its mouth.

After the Scheldt has flowed through largely untouched forest landscapes for its first 7 km, it reaches the first and only clearing of its course in Oberscheld . From the left the Tringensteiner Scheldt flows towards it, which until then has seen neither settlements nor roads.

After another two kilometers of forest crossing, during which the right of Eibach coming eponymous creek flows, the Scheldt leaves in Niederscheld finally the Schelder forest and enters the Lower Dilltal , where they immediately left into the Dill opens.

Tributaries

Apart from the Tringensteiner Schelde and Eibach, all tributaries of the Scheldt are streams of less than 2 km in length.

The following tributaries flow into the Scheldt:

Surname
 Inflow
side
 Length
[km]
 Catchment
area
[km²]
 Mouth
height
[m. ü. NN]
 estuarine
place
 GKZ
Hermannsgrund Bach right 1.6 363 258456-181
Red soaps right 1.1 355 258456-3142
Pond brook right 1.4 258456-316
Tretebach right 1.6 318 258456-392
Tringensteiner Scheldt Left 7.7 10,435 263 Oberscheld 258456-6
Rinkenbach Left 1.5 Oberscheld 258456-72
Eibach right 5.8 6.284 233 between Ober- and Niederscheld 258456-8

traffic

Almost the entire course of the Scheldt is accompanied by the Schelde-Lahn-Straße , Landesstraße 3042. This makes use of the proximity of the source courses of the Gansbach and Schelde and crosses the watershed between Oberer Lahn and Dill via the comparatively gentle inclines and slopes of the two rivers.

The same considerations followed the now closed Scheldtalbahn ( Schelde-Lahn-Bahn ), the tracks of which still line the valley of the Scheldt.

Linguistic

A comparison of the Hessian and Belgian water names shows a reversal of the hierarchy: while in Hesse the Scheldt flows into the Dill and this into the Lahn, in Belgium the Laan (French: Lasne) flows into the Dijle (French: Dyle) and overflows it the only 12 km long Rupel , as it were the common lower reaches of the Dijle and Nete , into the Scheldt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )

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