Walse

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Walse
Sählenbach (in the upper reaches) / Beek (in the middle reaches)
The Walse in Wahlhausen shortly before it flows into the Werra

The Walse in Wahlhausen shortly before it flows into the Werra

Data
Water code EN : 4194
location Upper Eichsfeld , Eichsfeld District , Thuringia , Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
origin near Dieterode in the Upper Eichsfeld
51 ° 18 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  E
Source height approx.  345  m above sea level NN 
muzzle at Wahlhausen in the Werra coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 29 ″  E 51 ° 17 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 29 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  144  m above sea level NN 
Height difference approx. 201 m
Bottom slope approx. 18 ‰
length approx. 11.3 km
Catchment area 31.9 km²
Left tributaries Suction trenches
Right tributaries Rotenbach , Hollbach
Communities Mackenrode , Dietzenrode-Vatterode , Wahlhausen

The Walse , known in the upper reaches of Sählenbach and Beek in the middle , is an approximately 11.3 km long right and eastern tributary of the Werra in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia , Germany .

Course and catchment area

The inside of the upper Eichsfeld in Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal located watercourses creates two headwaters of the union: The southeast (left) rises about 1 km west-northwest of the summit of the height of the mountain ( 520.8  m above sea level. ) To around 425  m above sea level. NN and shortly thereafter flows through Dieterode , the northeastern (right) about 600 m southeast of the Eichstruther head ( 503  m above sea  level ) to about 420  m above sea level. NN . Their brook union is at about 345  m above sea level. NN .

The stream runs predominantly westwards along state road  1003, which it crosses several times. Initially, it flows as Sählenbach a few hundred meters south of the village of Eichstruth , touches Hennigerode and shortly afterwards, now called Beek , flows through the village of Mackenrode . Then it runs in the municipality of Dietzenrode-Vatterode between the mountain ranges Höheberg (on the Höhberg 385.5  m above sea level ) in the northwest and Gobert (on the Dietzenröder Stein 496.1  m above sea level ) in the south and southeast through the village of Vatterode and as Walse through the village of Dietzenrode .

Shortly after the confluence of the Hollbach , which flows from the northeast, which flows through Wahlhausen , the Walse flows under the L 1003 (with Werra Valley cycle path ) at about 144  m above sea level. NN into the Weser source river Werra coming from the south .

The catchment area of the Walse is about 31.9 km².

Tributaries

Numerous small brooks and rivulets flow to the whales, the most important of which are:

  • nameless Bach (li) from the direction of Willow Creek Coming
  • Rotenbach (right) from the direction of Wüstheuterode
  • Schierbach (right) from the direction of Fretterode
  • Saugraben (left) opening into Dietzenrode
  • Hollbach (right) flowing into Wahlhausen.

geology

The headwaters of the Sählenbach lies on the edge of the Obereichsfelder Muschelkalkplatte and then runs through the upper and middle red sandstone . In the area of ​​the Eichenberg – Gotha – Saalfelder fault zone near Vatterode, the river forms a strongly branched brook system that radiates to the northwest, northeast, east and south, here all the water channels unite to form the walse. This then cuts through the red sandstone of the Höhebeng in a south-westerly direction in a narrow valley.

Mills

Some water mills were built and operated on the Walse :

  • Kronenmühle below Wüstheuterode
  • Herrnmühle below Vatterode
  • Mill north of Dietzenrode
  • Lower mill in Wahlhausen
  • Stubenmühle at the tributary towards Fretterode

Web links

Commons : Walse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Length of the Walse including Sählenbach and Beek measured by geopath on google earth
  3. ↑ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and water code index and map. Jena 1998; 26 pp.
  4. ^ Walter Hiekel, Frank Fritzlar, Andreas Nöllert and Werner Westhus: The natural spaces of Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), Thuringian Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment . 2004, ISSN  0863-2448 . → Natural area map of Thuringia (TLUG) - PDF; 260 kB → Maps by district (TLUG)

  5. ↑ H. Pöcholdt and O. Zeise: Explanations on the geological map of Prussia: sheet Heiligenstadt. Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy Berlin 1904, p. 2