Gande | |
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![]() The Gande in Bad Gandersheim | |
Location | |
Country | Germany |
State | Lower Saxony |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
- location | near Lamspringe |
Mouth | |
near Kreiensen | |
- coordinates | 51°51′15″N9°56′57″E / 51.854038°N 9.949246°E |
Length | 19.2 km (11.9 mi) [1] |
Discharge | |
- location | at Gandersheim gauge [2] |
- average | 0.824 m3/s (29.1 cu ft/s) |
- minimum | Record low: 0.010 m3/s (0.35 cu ft/s)/s (in 24.10.1977) Average low: 0.166 m3/s (5.9 cu ft/s) |
- maximum | Average high: 15.9 m3/s (560 cu ft/s) Record high: 41.8 m3/s (1,480 cu ft/s) (in 28.10.1998) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Leine→ Aller→ Weser→ North Sea |
Landmarks | Small towns: Bad Gandersheim |
Tributaries | |
- left | Meine, Eterna |
The Gande is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right-hand tributary of the River Leine.
Lower Saxony is a German state (Land) situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with 47,624 km2 (18,388 sq mi), and fourth-largest in population among the 16 Länder federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.
The Leine is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller and the Weser and it is 281 km (175 mi) long.
The Gande rises near the town of Lamspringe on the eastern side of the Sackwald in the county of Hildesheim and flows from there southwards between the Sackwald and the Heber ridges. It enters the district of Northeim near Altgandersheim (a subdivision of Bad Gandersheim). At Bad Gandersheim it turns west and empties into the Leine at Kreiensen.
Lamspringe is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Hildesheim. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Harbarnsen, Neuhof, Sehlem and Woltershausen are part of the municipality Lamspringe.
The Sackwald is a ridge, up to 374 m above sea level (NN) high, in the Lower Saxon Hills in the district of Hildesheim in the North German state of Lower Saxony. It is named after the village of Sack in the borough of Alfeld, the name meaning "Sack Forest".
The Heber is a hogback ridge, relatively small in area and up to 313.5 metres high, in the Lower Saxon Hills within the districts of Goslar, Northeim and Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Northeim is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Holzminden, Hildesheim, Goslar and Göttingen, and the state of Hesse.
Bad Gandersheim is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. As of December 2008, it had a population of 10,572.
Kreiensen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2013, it is part of the town Einbeck.
Ihme is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Leine.
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The Oder is a 56-kilometre-long (35 mi) river in Lower Saxony, Germany, and a right tributary of the Rhume. Its source is in the Harz mountains, near Sankt Andreasberg. It flows southwest through Bad Lauterberg, Pöhlde and Hattorf am Harz. The Oder flows into the Rhume in Katlenburg-Lindau.
The Grindau is an 11 kilometre long right-hand tributary of the River Leine in Lower Saxony (Germany).
Lutter is a river in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a tributary from the right (east) to the Leine.
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Haller is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Leine near Nordstemmen.
Aue is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Leine near Kreiensen.
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Saale is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Leine. Its source is near the village Duingen. It flows into the Leine in Elze.
The Ahrensberg, at 374 metres, is the highest hill in the Sackwald range in the district of Hildesheim, in the north German state of Lower Saxony.
The Vorberge are a ridge, up to 353 m above sea level (NN) high, in the Lower Saxon Hills and within the district of Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony. Together with the Sieben Berge and the Sackwald, the Vorberge belong to the geological formation of the Sackmulde.
The Steinberg is a small hill ridge, up to 300.3 m above NN, in the Lower Saxon Hills in the districts of Holzminden and Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony.
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