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The Hunte River and Its Oxbows

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The Hunte River and Its Oxbows

The Hunte River and Its Oxbows

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    May 6, 2023

    Hunte + Hunte oxbows

    The Hunte is a 189 km long western tributary of the Weser in Lower Saxony * rises in the Wiehen Mountains (near Osnabrück), crosses the Dümmer, flows through the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park towards Oldenburg and flows into the Weser northwest of Bremen.

    The Hunte is currently not yet ecologically continuous but a renaturation as has already happened with other bodies of water is being planned.

    In the past, the Hunte was repeatedly changed in its course, which resulted in Hunte oxbows as can be seen here.

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      December 14, 2023

      The water in the newly connected oxbow lake is currently still quite dirty, but it is becoming clearer as a result of the replacement. The old water that flows out takes the mud with it. Such so-called oxbow lakes were created in the course of the straightening of the Hunte between 1954 and 1959, which was carried out for land reclamation, as SUN managing director Rudolf Stukenborg reported.

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