Garte

Garte
	Mouth of the Garte into the Leine south of Göttingen
Location	Göttingen district, Lower Saxony, Germany
Physical characteristics
Main source	east of Weißenborn at the confluence of two streams; 303 m above sea level (NN)
River mouth	south of Göttingen into the Leine ; 152 m above sea level (NN) ; 51°30′16″N9°55′09″E / 51.50444°N 9.91917°E Coordinates: 51°30′16″N9°55′09″E / 51.50444°N 9.91917°E
Length	23.9 km (14.9 mi) [1]
Basin features
Progression	Leine→ Aller→ Weser→ North Sea
Basin size	89 km2 (34 sq mi) [1]
Tributaries	Left:; Moosgrund, Bischhauser Bach; Right:; Glasehausener Bach, Bernsroder Bach, Bramke, Lengder Bach, Eichbach ;

Last updated April 03, 2019

The Garte is a small tributary to the Leine River in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Leine river in Germany, tributary of the River Aller

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.

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 Garte is a 23 km long stream that rises to the east of Weißenborn at an elevation of 303 m amsl. Towns that it runs through or by include Beienrode, Kerstlingerode, Rittmarshausen (where it is joined by the Bernsroder Bach), Wöllmarshausen, Benniehausen (where the Bischhäuser Bach joins it), Klein Lengden (where the Bramke and Eichbach join it), and Diemarden. The stream joins the Leine River south of Göttingen. With a drop of 151 m, the stream averages a bed slope of 6.6‰. The watershed is 87 km². It is classified as a third-order (i.e., lowest^[2]) stream according to the German system of body-of-water ranking.

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Kerstlingerode is a village in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. It lies on L569 between Beienrode and Rittmarshausen, about ten kilometers south-east of Göttingen. The village of 245 residents is primarily agricultural. There is one church and the largest school in the municipality. There is a volunteer fire department and a wind-instrument band. The village mayor is Claudia Schuppe-Blödow.

Rittmarshausen is a nucleated village in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The village of 776 residents is primarily agricultural and home of people working in Göttingen. "Ökozentrum Rittmarshausen" is an association dedicated to the development and marketing of regionally produced natural foods, which are marketed under the Leinehöfe label. The community also sports an athletic association, a volunteer fire department, a chorus, a gun club, and an equestrian association.

The river valley is considered locally as something of a micro-cultural unit, especially solidified by the now-defunct Garte Valley Railway,^[3] a 750 mm narrow-gauge railway running from Goettingen to Duderstadt.

The Garte Valley Railway or Göttingen Narrow Gauge Railway, was a narrow-gauge rail line that served to connect the area east of the city to Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, from 1897 through 1959.

A narrow-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard 1,435 mm. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm and 1,067 mm.

Tributaries

from source to mouth

(unnamed stream, from Weißenborn) (L)
Glasehauser Bach (R)
Moosgrund (L)
Bernsroder Bach (R)
Bischhäuser Bach (L)
Bramke (R)
Lengder Bach (R)
Eichbach (R)

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[DE-NI_UK-1] 1 2 Environmental map service of Lower Saxony (Umweltkartendienst des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz)

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