Hase

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Main otherTemplate:Template otherTemplate:Main other The Hase () is a Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert Hankenüll hill.

Weser-Ems watershed

After about Template:Convert, near Gesmold and about Template:Convert west of Melle, the Hase encounters an anomaly of terrain and bifurcates such that each branch flows into a different drainage system:

• One third of its water flows 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 water (the Hase proper) flows northwest from Gesmold toward Osnabrück, past the towns listed below, and toward Meppen, where the Ems receives its flow.

Towns

• Melle
• Bissendorf
• Osnabrück
• Wallenhorst
• BramscheTemplate:Sndto the south of this city, the Hase crosses the Mittelland Canal
• Rieste
• AlfhausenTemplate:Sndhere the Hase forms the Alfsee, an artificial lake acting as flood-retention basin for the lower reaches
• Bersenbrück
• Badbergen
• QuakenbrückTemplate:Sndin 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)
• MenslageTemplate:Sndhere the Hase is channeled into the Little Hase
• LöningenTemplate:Sndhere it flows into a somewhat northerly branch: the Big Hase
• HerzlakeTemplate:Sndhere the two branches flow together again
• Haselünne
• Meppen

Hydroelectricity

CurrentlyTemplate:As of when one run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is installed:

Location	Operator	Power	active
Bersenbrück, Wasserkraftwerk Hasemühle	private	190 kW	yes

Pictures

File:Hase (Fluss) unweit des Stichkanals in Hollage.jpg

The Hase at Wallenhorst

File:Meppen-hubbruecke Bild-2.JPG

River mouth in Meppen, seen from river Ems

See also

• List of rivers of Lower Saxony