Söse

Söse
The southwestern Harz with the River Söse
Location Lower Saxony, Germany
Reference no. DE: 48828
Length 38 km
Source Auf dem Acker in the Harz
Source height ca. 800 m above sea level (NN)
Mouth Into the Rhume near Katlenburg-Lindau
51°41′58″N 10°06′24″E / 51.6995°N 10.106556°E / 51.6995; 10.106556
Mouth height 130 m above sea level (NN)
Descent ca. 670 m
Basin Weser
Progression Rhume Leine Aller Weser North Sea
Catchment 212 km²
Discharge
at Riefensbeek gauge[1]
Record low:     12 l/s (in 20.08.2003)
Average low:    70 l/s
Average mid:   654 l/s
Average high: 13.3 m³/s
Record high:   56.5 m³/s (in 01.08.1967)
Right tributaries Große Bremke, Sülpkebach, Markau
Left tributaries Alte Söse
Reservoirs passed Söse Reservoir
Large towns Osterode
The Söse in Osterode

The Söse is a right tributary of the river Rhume, 38 kilometres long, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Geography

The river rises on the plateau of Auf dem Acker in the district of Osterode in the southwestern part of the Harz Mountains in Germany. From there it flows initially westwards; and is then impounded at a pre-dam and then by the Söse Dam between the Osterode village of Riefensbeek and the town of Osterode am Harz itself. In Osterode the river bends northwest, only to swing westwards near Badenhausen and then southwards near Eisdorf just a few kilometres west of the Harz. It flows in that direction through Osterode-Dorste before entering the westward-flowing Rhume between the villages of Berka and Elvershausen, both part of the borough of Katlenburg-Lindau in the district of Northeim.

Tributaries

Walking

At the confluence of the Great Söse and the Great Morgenbrod is the Morgenbrodt Hut (ca. 600 bis 605 m above NN[2]; 146 – Morgenbrodt Hut 51°45′45″N 10°26′45″E / 51.76260°N 10.44573°E / 51.76260; 10.44573). This spot is no. 148[3] in the system of checkpoints in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. The Morgenbrodt Hut was demolished in 2013 by the National Park Authority as it was falling down and it is not intended to be replaced.[4]

Confluence of the Great Söse and Great Morgenbrod by the Morgenbrodt Valley Hut HWN 146

References

  1. "Deutsches Gewässerkundliches Jahrbuch Weser-Ems 2008" (PDF) (in German). Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz. 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  2. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  3. Harzer Wandernadel: Stempelstelle 146 – Morgenbrodtshütte at harzer-wandernadel.de
  4. Pressemitteilung des Nationalpark Harz
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