Wietze is a river in the South

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (german: Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen a ...

, in Lower Saxony, Germany, long, a tributary of the Örtze. The Wietze rises east of the

Soltau Soltau () is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around 22,000 inhabitants. The city is centrally located in the Lüneburg Heath and is known nationwide especially for its touri ...

suburb of and flows from there in a southerly direction to Wietzendorf. Here it is joined by its largest tributary, the Aue. The Aue has two source streams: the Hötzinger Aue, which rises north of Stübeckshorn (a district of Soltau), 98 m above sea level and the Alvernsche Aue, that has its source northwest of Alvern (a district of

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), 86 m above sea level. Beyond Wietzendorf the Wietze swings east, passes the village of

Reddingen Reddingen is a village in the municipality of Wietzendorf in Soltau-Fallingbostel district, Lower Saxony, Germany. The village, even with its associated hamlets of Reiningen and Halmern, only has 100 inhabitants. Formerly an independent municipali ...

and flows through its attached hamlets of Halmern and Reiningen and past the Winterhoff farm. It then turns again towards the south and discharges into the Örtze at Müden. The Wietze is a very clean river. It is water quality class II through (moderately polluted, ''betamesosaprob'')NLWKN water quality map
/ref> Between Wietzendorf and Velligsen the river can be used by canoes. It is looked after by the ''Unterhaltungsverband Örtze'' which is based Faßberg.

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