ディスリスペクトの天然記念物・トップ20

Just above Gesmold, the Hase forms a bifurcation. Here, the Else branches off from the Hase, causing around 2/3 of its water to flow into the Weser river system. It is still not clear whether this branch was artificially created to supply more water to the watermills of Gesmold Castle. A great environmental education site has been developed at the bifurcation since 2000. And there is also more information at the Terra Tip Bifurcation. Bifurcation Day takes place here every year on the first Sunday in May. Cyclists, families and nature lovers meet for an exciting festival with environmental education activities, concerts and delicacies. The extensive pastures around this striking place are grazed extensively and serve as a refuge for meadow birds such as lapwings, skylarks and also grass frogs.

A bifurcation (fork) is the natural division of a river, in which one of the resulting branches does not reunite with the other, but moves on independently and connects with a foreign river. It occurs on plains where the watershed is very shallow and barely noticeable and represents a rare geographic feature.

A little break is mandatory here 💚

Real touring highlight. The Hase forks into the Hase (left) and flows into the Ems, and into the Else (right) and flows into the Weser. The water pump model can be used to reenact the causes of some mill wars between the rulers of Gesmold and the Osnabrück water mills.

Nice path through an even more beautiful forest. You have to avoid the Great Freeden (nature protection), the continuation of the ridge path from there to the east is simply fantastic.

Today it was neither blue nor green. Rather muddy from the rain ...

Particularly beautiful in spring when the crest is covered with a carpet of flowers. There's even a Freedometer that shows the inflorescence (was omitted this year to prevent crowds).

Crazy what a color