Catfish (Delme)

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Catfish
Mouth of the Immer Bäke (from the right) into the Catfish (coming from the left)

Mouth of the Immer Bäke (from the right) into the Catfish (coming from the left)

Data
location Ganderkesee municipality , Oldenburg district , Lower Saxony
River system Weser
Drain over Delme  → Ochtum  → Weser  → North Sea
Source height 30  m
muzzle at Donneresch in the Delme coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 48 ″  E 53 ° 4 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 48 ″  E
Mouth height 5.5  m
Height difference 24.5 m
Bottom slope 1.5 ‰
length 16 km
Right tributaries Always baker , foolish
The catfish at the Elmeloher watermill

The Welse is a left tributary of the Delme southwest of Bremen . It flows in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg .

course

The source of the approximately 16 km long brook is located near Welsburg in the northern area of ​​the municipality of Dötlingen . Longer tributaries not far from the source are Immer Bäke and Nutteler Nebenzug. The catfish then flows in a northerly direction east of Falkenburg and west and north of Ganderkesee . It passes under the A 28 and crosses Delmenhorst from west to east. It flows into the Delme on the left at Bungerhof / Donneresch .

Namesake

The catfish is the namesake for the Welsburg , a late medieval , former Oldenburg low castle , located near the source . It existed between 1350 and 1480 and was destroyed around 1480.

The Welse-Delme-Weser eV canoe department is also named after her.

literature

  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : The Welsburg near Dötlingen, district Oldenburg In: Mamoun Fansa , Frank Both, Henning Haßmann (editor): Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony. 400,000 years of history. State Museum for Nature and People, Oldenburg 2004. Pages 577–578.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welsburg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaeologieag-oldenburg.de
  2. ↑ Dirk E. Zoller: Schlutter and Welsburg, two low castles. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 789 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaeologieag-oldenburg.de
  3. ^ The Welsburg: protective shield, count's seat, robber knight's nest.
  4. ↑ Welse-Delme-Weser eV Canoe Department