Daade

The Daade (also called the Daadenbach) is the largest tributary of the River Heller, in the district of Altenkirchen in the northeast of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It flows through the northeastern part of the Westerwald. It is long and has a catchment area of .

The Daade Valley Railway runs along the Daade from Daaden via Alsdorf to Betzdorf, on the main line from Cologne to Siegen.

Villages

The villages on the Daade are:

• Emmerzhausen
• Daaden (largest settlement on the Daade)
• Biersdorf (part of Daaden)
• Niederdreisbach
• Schutzbach
• Alsdorf

Tributaries

The tributaries of the Daade (in downstream order) are the:

• Derscherbach (left, 3.9 km, 9.3 km²) (GKZ 272282)
• Birenbach (right, 2.0 km, 2.3 km²) (GKZ 2722832)
• Friedewalderbach (left, 4.9 km, 8.1 km²) (GKZ 272284)
• Dreisbach (left, 5.6 km, 8.4 km²) (GKZ 272286)
• Schutzbach (left, 3.1 km, 3.6 km²) (GKZ 272288)

All left tributaries have their sources on the Neunkhausen-Weitefeld Plateau, but cut deep valleys in the Heller Upland.

See also

• List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate

References

External links

• Touristik-Information: Grubenwanderweg (PDF; 232 kB) „Vom Erz zum Eisen im Tal der Daade und Heller“