Wied (river)

Wied
The Wied near Roßbach
Data
Water code	EN : 2716
location	Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Rhine  → North Sea
source	North of Linden 50 ° 36 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 11 ″  E
Source height	approx.  463  m above sea level NN
muzzle	At Neuwied in the Rhine Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '30 "  N , 7 ° 26' 33"  E 50 ° 26 '30 "  N , 7 ° 26' 33"  E
Mouth height	approx.  63  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 400 m
Bottom slope	approx. 3.9 ‰
length	102 km
Catchment area	770.8 km²
Discharge at the Friedrichsthal A Eo gauge: 680.1 km² Location: 11 km above the mouth	NNQ (1947) MNQ 1937-2007 MQ 1937-2007 Mq 1937-2007 MHQ 1937-2007 HHQ (1984)	366 l / s 1.17 m³ / s 8.27 m³ / s 12.2 l / (s km²) 92.7 m³ / s 176 m³ / s
Discharge  at the mouth of the A Eo : 770.8 km²	MQ Mq	9 m³ / s 11.7 l / (s km²)
Reservoirs flowed through	Dreifelder pond

Wied at the Laubachs mill

Wied bei Widderstein: junction of the mill ditch to the water power station Michelbacher Mühle and weir

Wiedbrücke and ford in Michelbach

Wied bei Widderstein: junction of the mill ditch and weir

Mouth of the Wied into the Rhine

The Wied is a 102 km long, right, i.e. eastern tributary of the Rhine in Germany . It flows through the Rhineland-Palatinate area from the source to the mouth . From its catchment area of 770.8 km², it supplies around 9 m³ / s of water to the Rhine.

course

The Wied rises in the Westerwald at 464  m above sea level. NN directly north of the local community of Linden , part of the Hachenburg community . Initially, it passes linden trees on the eastern edge of the village and runs in a south-south-west direction, to flow into the Dreifelder Weiher (largest pond in the Westerwald lake district ) on the east bank and to leave it in a north-west direction.

Then the Wied flows in a north-westerly direction to Altenkirchen , then westwards, passing the scenic Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park , Neustadt . Then it bends again to the south, not far from the nature park boundary on the outskirts of Irlich (a district of Neuwied ) into the north-west flowing Middle Rhine .

Origin of name and history

The oldest written form of the river name Wied is uuida (read: wida ) from the year 857. In the Middle Ages , the Wied formed the boundary of the old Archdiocese of Trier on the left and the Archdiocese of Cologne on the right of the stream in about the first half of its course, from Steinebach to above Neustadt (Wied) .

Tributaries

The Wied tributaries include:

Left the Wied Almersbach, near Almersbach Breibach, near Seelbach Holzbach , near Döttesfeld Fockenbach , in Niederbreitbach Laubach , near Melsbach Aubach , in Niederbieber

Right the Wied Rothenbach , near Hanwerth Ingelbach , near Ingelbach Michelbach , in Michelbach Sehrtenbach , in Altenkirchen Erbach (Quengelsbach) , in Altenkirchen Ölferbach (Lenzbach) , near Niederölfen Birnbach, near Neitersen Mehrbach , near the Ehrenstein Monastery ( Asbach ) Pfaffenbach (Hammerbach) , near Wiedmühle ( Neustadt ) Reichelbach , near Segendorf

Localities

The villages on and near the Wied include:

Linden trees Dreifelden Steinebach Wied Winkelbach Borod Ingelbach Michelbach Altenkirchen Almersbach Schöneberg

Neitersen Obernau Berzhausen Seelbach Döttesfeld Bürdenbach Oberlahr Burglahr Peterslahr Asbach Neustadt

Rossbach Waldbreitbach Hausen Niederbreitbach Datzeroth Altwied Segendorf Niederbieber Neuwied - Irlich

Water status

According to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Water Act, the Wied is a second-order body of water from the Rothenbach estuary (northeast of Wahlrod ) to the confluence with the Rhine , so that the districts are responsible for keeping it clean .

Economy and tourism

The last half kilometer of the river Wied is navigable and leads to the factory harbor of ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein GmbH, today a member of the Thyssen Krupp group. For hikers, the river and landscape are made accessible through the Wiedwanderweg (100 km long). There is also a hydropower plant in Altwied and at the Michelbacher Mühle . Electricity is also generated in the Strickhausener Mühle (Gem. Berzhausen). Depending on the water level, the Wied is passable for kayaks from Altenkirchen and for Canadians from Schöneberg, at lower water levels only from Oberlahr.

The Wied is named after a cinema and cultural center in Neitersen that Wied-Scala .

After 100 years of operation, the Altwied hydropower plant burned down completely on July 19, 2012 and went back into operation after more than a year of extensive restoration.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographic map 1: 25,000
2. ↑ GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
3. ↑ MQ Friedrichsthal der Wied (8.25 m³ / s) plus MQ Oberbieber of the downstream Aubach (0.36 m³ / s), increased by the area runoff (7 l / s km²) of the remaining catchment area (61.3 km²)
4. ↑ Helmut Priewer, Mathias Priewer, Gerhard Hachenberg: Why is the Wied a Witt? In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 2011 , ISBN 3-9809797-8-4 , pp. 232–235.
5. ↑ Report from the Rhein-Zeitung from July 19, 2012
6. ↑ http://www.nr-kurier.de/artikel/24422-wasserkraftwerk-in-altwied-wieder-in-betrieb NR-Kurier October 1, 2013

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