The Garte is a small tributary to the

Leine The Leine (; Old Saxon ''Lagina'') is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller and the Weser and is long. The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. About downriver, ...

River in

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. The Garte is a long stream that rises to the east of Weißenborn at an elevation of . Towns that it runs through or by include

Beienrode Beienrode-im-Gartetal is a village in the municipality (''Gemeinde'') Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The nucleated village of 250 residents (as of December 31, 2005) is primarily agricultural. The village mayor is Marlene Hille. T ...

, Kerstlingerode,

Rittmarshausen Rittmarshausen is a nucleated village in the municipality (''Gemeinde'') Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The village of 776 residents (as of December 31, 2005) is primarily agricultural and home of people working in Göttingen. "Ök ...

(where it is joined by the Bernsroder Bach), Wöllmarshausen,

Benniehausen Benniehausen is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony. The village of 349 residents (in 2010) is located in the Gartetal on the old trade route between Göttingen and Duderstadt Duderstadt () is a city in southern Lower Sa ...

(where the Bischhäuser Bach joins it),

Klein Lengden Klein Lengden is a village in the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about eight to ten kilometers south-east of Göttingen. According to the 2010 census, it has about 1363 inhabitants. The village lies in the Garte va ...

(where the Bramke and Eichbach join it), and

Diemarden Diemarden is a village in Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It had 1463 inhabitants as of 2005 and is the second largest village in Gleichen. In 2010, there were 1398 residents. The village's elevation is 172 meters ab ...

. The stream joins the Leine River south of

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

. With a drop of 151 m, the stream averages a bed slope of 6.6‰. The watershed is . It is classified as a third-order (i.e., lowest :de:Flussordnungszahl) stream according to the German system of body-of-water ranking. The river valley is considered locally as something of a micro-cultural unit, especially solidified by the now-defunct

Garte Valley Railway The Garte Valley Railway (german: Gartetalbahn) or Göttingen Narrow Gauge Railway (''Göttinger Kleinbahn AG''), was a narrow-gauge rail line that served to connect the area east of the city to Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, from 1897 through ...

, a 750 mm

narrow-gauge railway A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum r ...

running from

Duderstadt Duderstadt () is a city in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Göttingen. It is the center and capital of the northern part of the Eichsfeld ("Untereichsfeld"). In earlier times it was the private wealth of the Roman Cat ...

Tributaries

from source to mouth * (unnamed stream, from Weißenborn) (L) * Glasehauser Bach (R) * Moosgrund (L) * Bernsroder Bach (R) * Bischhäuser Bach (L) * Bramke (R) * Lengder Bach (R) * Eichbach (R)

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{{reflist Rivers of Lower Saxony Rivers of Germany

Tributaries

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