Gande (river)

Gande

The Gande in Bad Gandersheim.
State Lower Saxony, Germany
Basin features
Main source Near Lamspringe
River mouth bei Kreiensen
51°51′15″N 9°56′57″E / 51.854038°N 9.949246°E / 51.854038; 9.949246
Progression Leine Aller Weser North Sea
River system Weser
Landmarks Small towns: Bad Gandersheim
Tributaries
  • Left:
    Meine, Eterna
Physical characteristics
Discharge
  • Location:
    at Gandersheim gauge[1]
  • Minimum rate:
    Record low: 10 l/s (in 24.10.1977)
    Average low: 166 l/s
  • Average rate:
    824 l/s
  • Maximum rate:
    Average high: 15.9 m³/s
    Record high: 41.8 m³/s (in 28.10.1998)

The Gande is a right-hand tributary of the River Leine in Lower Saxony.

Course

It rises near the town of Lamspringe on the eastern side of the Sackwald in the county of Hildesheim and flows from there southwards between the Sackwald and the Heber ridges. It enter the district of Northeim near Altgandersheim. At Bad Gandersheim it turns west and empties into to the Leine at Kreiensen.


  1. "Deutsches Gewässerkundliches Jahrbuch Weser-Ems 2008" (PDF) (in German). Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz. 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
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