Hase

Weser-Ems watershed

• one third of its waters flow along the south side of the Wiehengebirge hills eastward from Gesmold into the Else, which begins there, and flows into the Werre at Kirchlengern. The Werre is a tributary of the Weser.
• two thirds of its waters flow northwest from Gesmold toward Osnabrück, past the towns listed below, and toward Meppen, where the Ems receives its flow.

  Towns

• Melle
• Bissendorf
• Osnabrück
• Bramsche - to the south of this city the Hase crosses the Mittelland Canal
• Rieste
• Alfhausen
• Bersenbrück
• Badbergen
• Quakenbrück - in the southeast the Hase divides into two branches: the Big Hase and the Little Hase
• Menslage - here the Hase is channeled into the Little Hase
• Löningen - here it flows into a somewhat northerly branch: the Big Hase
• Herzlake - here the two branches flow together again
• Haselünne
• Meppen