Daade
River in Germany
50°42′24″N 8°01′29″E / 50.706704°N 8.024584°E / 50.706704; 8.024584 • location
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The Daade (also called the Daadenbach) is the largest tributary of the River Heller, in the district of Altenkirchen in the northeast of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It flows through the northeastern part of the Westerwald. It is 16.027 kilometres (9.959 mi) long and has a catchment area of 53.28 km2 (20.57 sq mi).[2]
The Daade Valley Railway runs along the Daade from Daaden via Alsdorf to Betzdorf, on the main line from Cologne to Siegen.
Villages
The villages on the Daade are:
- Emmerzhausen
- Daaden (largest settlement on the Daade)
- Biersdorf (part of Daaden)
- Niederdreisbach
- Schutzbach
- Alsdorf
Tributaries
The tributaries of the Daade (in downstream order) are the:
- Derscherbach (left, 3.9 km, 9.3 km²) (GKZ 272282)
- Birenbach (right, 2.0 km, 2.3 km²) (GKZ 2722832)
- Friedewalderbach (left, 4.9 km, 8.1 km²) (GKZ 272284)
- Dreisbach (left, 5.6 km, 8.4 km²) (GKZ 272286)
- Schutzbach (left, 3.1 km, 3.6 km²) (GKZ 272288)
All left tributaries have their sources on the Neunkhausen-Weitefeld Plateau, but cut deep valleys in the Heller Upland.
See also
References
- ^ a b Geoexplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Authority (Wasserwirtschaftsverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)
- ^ Verzeichnis der Fließgewässer Niederrhein (pdf; 126 kB)
External links
- Touristik-Information: Grubenwanderweg (PDF; 232 kB) „Vom Erz zum Eisen im Tal der Daade und Heller“
- "Daade Quelle "Sonnenscheins – Börnchen"". Wällipedia. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2017.