Catfish (Delme)
Catfish | ||
Mouth of the Immer Bäke (from the right) into the Catfish (coming from the left) |
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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 |
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Mouth height | 5.5 m | |
Height difference | 24.5 m | |
Bottom slope | 1.5 ‰ | |
length | 16 km | |
Right tributaries | Always baker , foolish |
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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)
- ^ The Welsburg: protective shield, count's seat, robber knight's nest.
- ↑ Welse-Delme-Weser eV Canoe Department