Sieber is a river of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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, in the

Harz The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German w ...

mountains. It is long and a right hand

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...

of the

Oder The Oder ( , ; Czech language, Czech, Lower Sorbian language, Lower Sorbian and ; ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and Warta. The Oder ri ...

. The Sieber rises at 760 metres on the

Bruchberg At , the Bruchberg in the Upper Harz is the second highest mountain in Lower Saxony and the third highest in the Harz mountains in North Germany. It lies between Altenau and Torfhaus in the middle of the Harz National Park. The Bruchberg is more ...

massif and flows through Herzberg before discharging at Hattorf into the Oder which, in turn, flows into the Rhume. Its tributaries include the

Große Kulmke Große Kulmke is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. The Große Kulmke is a tributary of the Sieber in central Germany. It rises near the natural monument of '' Mönchskappenklippe'' near the ridge of Auf dem Acker, north-northeast of Sieber in ...

Große Lonau Große Lonau is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. Course The Große Lonau rises at an elevation of 730 m in the vicinity of the Hanskühnenburg on the ridge of Auf dem Acker. Then it flows mostly in a south-southwest direction to Lonau, where i ...

and

Goldenke The Goldenke is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a long tributary of the Sieber, north of the village of Sieber in the district of Göttingen. It rises at a height of 800 metres in the vicinity of the Hanskühnenburg on the ridge of A ...

. In February 1910, as part of his hydrological research into the '' Rhumequelle'', Karl Thürnau dyed the Sieber tributary of the ''Eichelbach'' (Herzberg) with six kilogrammes of

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. Three days later, weakly dyed water appeared in the main source of the ''Rhumequelle''. This was confirmed in 1980 by dye tracing carried out by the Geological Survey of Lower Saxony (''Niedersächsischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung''). This also indicated links between the ''Rhumequelle'' and the Sieber near Hörden and the Oder near

Scharzfeld Scharzfeld is a village in the borough of Herzberg am Harz in the district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony, Germany. Scharzfeld lies at a height of about 220 m above sea level and has 1,765 inhabitants (as at 1 October 2006). Th ...

. The construction of a dam was planned but never realised. As a result the Sieber valley is the only unregulated river valley in the western Harz. The upper Sieber valley has been out-of-bounds to motor traffic since the 1980s from the Forsthaus Königshof and lies partly within the

Harz National Park Harz National Park is a nature reserve in the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It comprises portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg at the southern edge to Bad Harzburg ...

– the road leads to the B 242 federal highway northwest of Sonnenberg. The river gives its name to the village of Sieber in the middle of the Sieber valley. File:SieberSchluft.jpg, The Schluft is the 'transport hub' of the upper Sieber Valley.

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...

walked here. File:SieberParadies.jpg, The Sieber in "Paradies" (''paradise'') between Herzberg and the village of Sieber File:SieberWehrHerzberg.jpg, The Sieber Weir near the Herzberg paper factory File:LonauEinmuendung.jpg, Confluence of the

with the Sieber near Herzberg

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{{Authority control Rivers of Lower Saxony Rivers of the Harz Rivers of Germany

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