Hase Explained

Hase
Name Etymology:	haswa, germanic for gray
Map:	Karte Hasetal.gif
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Germany
Subdivision Type2:	State
Subdivision Name2:	Lower Saxony
Subdivision Type5:	Cities
Source1 Location:	Melle-Wellingholzhausen, Teutoburg Forest
Source1 Coordinates:	52.1325°N 8.2647°W
Mouth:	Ems River
Mouth Location:	Meppen
Mouth Coordinates:	52.6911°N 7.2967°W
Tributaries Right:	Südradde, Mittelradde

The Hase is a 169.7adj=midNaNadj=mid 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 307adj=midNaNadj=mid Hankenüll hill.

Weser-Ems watershed

After about 15km (09miles), near Gesmold and about 6km (04miles) 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
• Bramscheto the south of this city the Hase crosses the Mittelland Canal
• Rieste
• Alfhausenhere the Hase forms the Alfsee, an artificial lake acting as flood retention basin for the lower reaches
• Bersenbrück
• Badbergen
• Quakenbrückin 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)
• Menslagehere the Hase is channelled into the Little Hase
• Löningenhere it flows into a somewhat northerly branch: the Big Hase
• Herzlakehere the two branches flow together again
• Haselünne
• Meppen

Hydroelectricity

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

See also

• List of rivers of Lower Saxony