- Hase
The Hase is a 193 km long
river inLower Saxony ,Germany . It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to theElse , that is part of theWeser basin. Its source is in theTeutoburg Forest , south-east ofOsnabrück , on the north slope of the 307 m high Hankenüll hill.Weser-Ems Watershed
After approx. 15 km, near
Gesmold (about 6km west from 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 theWiehengebirge hills eastward from Gesmold into the Else, which begins there, and flows into theWerre atKirchlengem (north ofHerford ). The Werre is a tributary of theWeser .
* 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 on the Hase
*Melle
*Osnabrück
*Bramsche - to the south of this city the Hase crosses theMittellandkanal
*Neuenkirchen-Vörden
*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 channeled 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
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