Vehne

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Vehne
Data
Water code DE : 38822
location Lower Saxony
River system Ems
Drain over Aue → Godensholter Tief  → Nordloher Tief → Barßeler Tief  → Jümme  → Leda  → Ems  → North Sea
source north of Höltinghausen
52 ° 52 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 8 ″  E
Source height 43  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Edewecht in the floodplain coordinates: 53 ° 6 '53 "  N , 7 ° 57' 20"  E 53 ° 6 '53 "  N , 7 ° 57' 20"  E
Mouth height 3  m
Height difference 40 m
Bottom slope 1 ‰
length 38.5 km
Catchment area 106.1 km²
Communities Emstek , Cloppenburg , Garrel , Bösel , Edewecht

The Vehne is a flowing water in the Lower Saxony districts of Cloppenburg and Ammerland and namesake for the Vehnemoor . Its name probably goes back to the Frisian-Low German word “veen” (moor).

course

The 38 km long river, initially called the Streek , flows in the municipalities of Emstek , Cloppenburg , Garrel , Bösel and Edewecht . It has its source 2 km north of Höltinghausen . From here it flows in a northerly direction, crosses under the federal highway 213 and continues to flow past Kellerhöhe , west past Beverbruch and east past Garrel . The Vehne now forms the border between the districts of Cloppenburg and Oldenburg on a section . East of Jeddeloh II it crosses the coastal channel . Since it initially crossed the canal open, its water level fluctuated and this had to be compensated for by locks. This was remedied by the construction of the Vehne culvert in 1927 , which since then has led the river with a length of 57 m and a diameter of 1.6 m under the bottom of the coastal canal in order to reappear immediately next to the main road 401 . Here it changes its course to the west, finally flowing south at Edewecht as a left tributary into the Aue , which flows through the Zwischenahner Sea .

Straightening

The low gradient and the originally strongly meandering course of the river often led to the flooding of agricultural areas on the lower reaches of the Jeddeloh area . Therefore, from 1959 to 1962, as part of the Leda-Jümme project , the Vehne was expanded and straightened from the coastal canal to the confluence with the floodplain over a length of 9.8 km. Most of its upper reaches have also been straightened.

Trivia

  • Until 1803 the lower reaches of the Vehne formed the border between the Duchy of Oldenburg and the Niederstift Münster .
  • Until well into the 19th century, there were up to eight ship helmets on the navigable Vehne near Edewecht . Some built ocean-going sailing ships. For the transfer, the Vehne was dammed up in the winter months so that the ships could sail towards the Ems on the outgoing wave .
  • In Jeddeloh I , the area to the south of the Vehne is referred to as “Beyond the Vehne”, and to the north as “this side of the Vehne”.
  • In 1494 a water mill was built in South Edewecht on the Vehne . It was implemented several times and demolished in 1923 at its last location on today's "Kampweg".
  • Not far from this former mill location there was a river bathing establishment on the Vehne in the 1930s in South Edewecht (south of the present-day settlement “Evenkamp”, right next to the former railway bridge) . Bathing in the simple water basin was soon forbidden because of the silting up.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Drawn GPS track of the Vehne
  2. ^ Environment Lower Saxony: Area directory Ems