Olef
Appearance
Olef | |
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Location | |
Countries | Germany and Belgium |
Reference no. | DE: 28228 |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | West of Ramscheid |
• coordinates | 50°26′28″N 6°22′35″E / 50.44105°N 6.37625°E |
• elevation | ca. 639 m above sea level (NHN) |
Olef Reservoir | |
The Olef, tributary of the Urft |
The Olef is a river in
Eifel Mountains
in the western part of the Germany and eastern part of Belgium.
Geography
The Olef rises on the Ramscheider Höhe, near the
Elsenborn Military Training Area
. The river course changes direction in a wide arc to head east.
In the next section the Olef flows through the Schleiden Forest (Forst Schleiden) and is impounded to create the
Olef Reservoir in front of Hellenthal. In Hellenthal it is joined from the right and southwest by the Platißbach. At the end of the village of Hellenthal, near Kirschseiffen, the river turns north. At the northern edge of Blumenthal it picks up the Reifferscheider Bach from the right. Other villages en route are Oberhausen, Schleiden, Olef, Nierfeld and Gemünd
. Here the Olef discharges into the Urft from the left at a height of 334 m above NHN.
Along its 27.9-kilometre-long route the Olef descends through 335 metres, which represent an average riverbed gradient of 12 ‰. It drains an area of 196.073 km2 (75.704 sq mi)
Tributary streams
- Jansbach – 4.7 km [1] long, left-hand tributary at 560 m above NHN [2]
- Troglichtenbach – 2.9 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Rathssiefen – 1.7 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Merlenbach – 1.4 km [1] long, right-hand tributary at 486 m above NHN [2]
- Wiesbach – 5.8 km [1] long, left-hand tributary at 481 m above NHN [2]
- Reiffelbach – 1.8 km [1] long, left-hand tributary at 479 m above NHN [2]
- Kürteborn – 0.7 km [1] long, right-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Lehrbach – 1.1 km [1] long, right-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Birkensiefen – 1.5 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Hesselbach – 1.8 km [1] long, left-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Hesselbach – 1.2 km [1] long, right-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Engelmannssiefen – 0.9 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Jüngselbach – 2.5 km [1] long, left-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Schürenter Siefen – 0.5 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Tössiefen – 0.8 km [1] long, right-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Gammelsbach – 1.0 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Moderbach – 1.1 km [1] long, right-hand tributary discharging into the Olef Reservoir at 465 m above NHN [2]
- Bernerssiefen – 0.8 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Kohlsiefen – 1.3 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Platißbach – 7.4 km [1] long, right-hand tributary in Hellenthal at 403 m above NHN [2]
- Hintersiefen – 0.9 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Reifferscheider Bach – 13.7 km [1] long, right-hand tributary in Blumenthal at 387 m above NHN [2]
- Mühlenseifen – 1.4 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Rinkenbach – 2.9 km [1] long, right-hand tributary in Oberhausen at 379 m above NHN [2]
- Holzbach – 1.9 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Hellesbach – 2.3 km [1] long, left-hand tributary near Oberhausen at 375 m above NHN [2]
- Scheidebach – 2.2 km [1] long, right-hand tributary near Wiesgen at 374 m above NHN [2]
- Holgenbach – 1.3 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Dieffenbach – 7.3 km [1] long, left-hand tributary in Schleiden at 363 m above NHN [2]
- Höddelbach – 4.3 km [1] long, left-hand tributary in Schleiden at 362 m above NHN [2]
- Rosselbach – 2.1 km [1] long, right-hand tributary near Schleiden at 357 m above NHN [2]
- Selbach – 2.6 km [1] long, right-hand tributary near Olef at 351 m above NHN [2]
- Paffenbach – 1.4 km [1] long, left-hand tributary
- Frohnbach – 1.1 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Dehlenbach – 2.2 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
- Tränkelbach – 1.6 km [1] long, right-hand tributary
References
External links
- Media related to Olef at Wikimedia Commons