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Hase
Hase - Else River bifurcation
Course of the Hase through the Hase Valley
Etymology	haswa, germanic for gray
Location
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
Cities	Meppen (mouth) Haselünne Herzlake Löningen Essen Quakenbrück Bersenbrück Bramsche Osnabrück Wellingholzhausen (source)
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Melle-Wellingholzhausen, Teutoburg Forest
• coordinates	52°7′57″N 8°15′53″E / 52.13250°N 8.26472°E / 52.13250; 8.26472
• elevation	165 m (541 ft)
Mouth	Ems River
• location	Meppen
• coordinates	52°41′28″N 7°17′48″E / 52.69111°N 7.29667°E / 52.69111; 7.29667
• elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Length	169.7 km (105.4 mi)
Basin size	3,116 km (1,203 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Ems→ North Sea
Tributaries
• right	Südradde, Mittelradde

The Hase is a 169.7-kilometre-long (105.4 mi) river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north slope of the 307-metre-high (1,007 ft) Hankenüll hill.

Weser-Ems watershed

After about 15 kilometres (9 mi), near Gesmold and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Melle, the Hase encounters an anomaly of terrain and bifurcates such that each branch flows in a different drainage system:

• one third of its waters flow along the south side of the Wiehengebirge hills eastward from Gesmold into the Else, which begins there, and flows into the Werre at Kirchlengern (north of Herford). The Werre is a tributary of the Weser.
• two thirds of its waters (the Hase proper) flow northwest from Gesmold toward Osnabrück, past the towns listed below, and toward Meppen, where the Ems receives its flow.

Towns

• Melle
• Bissendorf
• Osnabrück
• Wallenhorst
• Bramsche – to the south of this city the Hase crosses the Mittelland Canal
• Rieste
• Alfhausen – here the Hase forms the Alfsee, an artificial lake acting as flood retention basin for the lower reaches
• Bersenbrück
• Badbergen
• Quakenbrück – in the southeast the Hase divides into two branches: the Big Hase (passing the town in the northeast) and the Little Hase (which itself is divided into several branches within the town, one of which leaves the town northwards to the Big Hase) (Binnendelta)
• Menslage – here the Hase is channelled into the Little Hase
• Löningen – here it flows into a somewhat northerly branch: the Big Hase
• Herzlake – here the two branches flow together again
• Haselünne
• Meppen

Hydroelectricity

Currently one Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is installed

Pictures

See also

• List of rivers of Lower Saxony

References

1. ^ Environmental map service of Lower Saxony (Umweltkartendienst des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz)
2. Hydrographic Directory of the NRW State Office for Nature, the Environment and Consumer Protection (Gewässerverzeichnis des Landesamtes für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW 2010) (xls; 4.67 MB)

Media related to Hase at Wikimedia Commons

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