The Olef is a river in Liège , Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It is 27.9 kilometres (17.3 mi) long and a left-hand tributary of the Urft . It flows through the Eifel Mountains in the western part of the Germany and eastern part of Belgium.
7-631: The Olef rises on the Ramscheider Höhe, near the Zitter Forest , about 2.2 km (1.4 mi) southwest of Hollerath at an elevation of 639 m above sea level (NHN) , immediately on the state border. From here it flows initially northwest and through the woods of the Dreiherren Wald . The valley of the Olef forms the state border here which runs along the river. From its confluence with
14-746: Is 692 m above sea level (NN) . The Zitter Forest lies in the North Eifel between Hellenthal (north), Dahlem (east), Kronenburg (south) and the Belgian village of Büllingen (west). The Zitter Forest is part of the Hohes Venn – Eifel Nature Park . To the north the Eifel National Park borders on the Zitter Forest; to the south the river Kyll is the border with the Schnee Eifel . In
21-639: The Wiesbach it enters Germany. It then forms inter alia , the eastern boundary of the safety zones of the Elsenborn Military Training Area . The river course changes direction in a wide arc to head east. In the next section the Olef flows through the Schleiden Forest ( Forst Schleiden ) and is impounded to create the Olef Reservoir in front of Hellenthal . In Hellenthal it is joined from
28-553: The Olef descends through 335 metres, which represent an average riverbed gradient of 12 ‰. It drains an area of 196.073 km (75.704 sq mi) Zitter Forest The Zitter Forest ( German : Zitterwald ) is located in the Eifel region in the German district of Euskirchen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and in the Belgian province of Liège ( Wallonia ). Its highest point
35-543: The northern part of the Zitter Forest belong to the highest parishes in the Rhineland . The Zitter Forest is one of the last habitats of the wildcat in Germany. The Eifel-Bärbelkreuz transmission tower ( Sendeturm Eifel-Bärbelkreuz ) is within the Zitter Forest. 50°25′18″N 6°29′15″E / 50.421666°N 6.487427°E / 50.421666; 6.487427 This North Rhine-Westphalia location article
42-609: The right and southwest by the Platißbach . At the end of the village of Hellenthal, near Kirschseiffen , the river turns north. At the northern edge of Blumenthal it picks up the Reifferscheider Bach from the right. Other villages en route are Oberhausen, Schleiden , Olef , Nierfeld and Gemünd . Here the Olef discharges into the Urft from the left at a height of 334 m above NHN . Along its 27.9-kilometre-long route
49-636: The thinly populated and predominantly wooded uplands of the Zitter Forest between 500 and 692 m above sea level (NN) lie the sources of the Olef, Urft and Kyll . Its highest elevation is on the Weißer Stein (692 m; with ski slopes) southwest of Udenbreth; amongst the other hills within the Zitter Forest are the Bärbelkreuz (662.8 m), Hühnerhöhe (659.9 m), Kamberg (637.8 m). The Hellenthal villages and settlements — like Giescheid, Miescheid, Neuhaus, Ramscheid and Udenbreth — in
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