Urff

Urff is a 20.1 km tributary of the river Schwalm in Waldeck-Frankenberg and Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, North Hesse (Germany). It flows into the Schwalm near Niederurff.

History
The Urff starts in the Kellerwald. Its source lies west-southwest of the Bad Wildungen district of Hundsdorf and east-northeast of the Haina district of Löllbach on the transition area between Große Aschkoppe (639.8 m) in the southeast, Alter Koppe (591.4 m ) in the southwest, and Wölftekopf (567.1 m ) in the north-northeast.

The Urff runs through the wooded Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park in an eastward direction and through Hundsdorf, where it bends to the south-east towards Armsfeld. Below Armsfeld, south of Auenberg (610.7 m ), the creek turns east and flows past the villages of Fischbach and Bergfreiheit, the ruins of Löwenstein Castle (341.2 m ), and Oberurff-Schiffelborn after Niederurff.

The confluence of the Urff in the Schwalm is in the Löwensteiner Grund south-east of Niederurff at a height of about 193.5 m ; to the northeast rises the Altenburg (432.7 m ).

Catchment Area and Tributaries
The Urff is an Order III body of water. Its drainage basin covers 41.74 km2.

The tributaries of the Urff include, among others ( viewed downstream ):


 * Heerbach (on the right; confluence between Hundsdorf and Armsfeld)
 * Appenbach (on the right; confluence between Armsfeld and Berg Freiheit)
 * Kohlbach (on the left; confluence between Armsfeld and Berg Freiheit)

Localities
The villages on the Urff are ( viewed downstream ):


 * Bad Wildungen - Hundsdorf
 * Bad Wildungen - Armsfeld
 * Bad Wildungen - Bergfreiheit
 * Bad Zwesten - Oberurff-Schiffelborn
 * Bad Zwesten - Niederurff