The Garte is a small tributary to the Leine

Leine

The Leine is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller river and 281 km in length.The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia...

 River in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

, Germany

Germany

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The Garte is a 23 km long stream that rises to the east of Weißenborn at an elevation of 303 m amsl. Towns that it runs through or by include Beienrode

Beienrode

Beienrode-im-Gartetal is a village in the municipality Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The nucleated village of 250 residents is primarily agricultural. The village mayor is Marlene Hille. The village's escutcheon is of a green linden tree on a silver background...

, Kerstlingerode

Kerstlingerode

Kerstlingerode is a village in the municipality Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. It lies on L569 between Beienrode and Rittmarshausen, about ten kilometers south-east of Göttingen. The village of 255 residents is primarily agricultural. There is one church and the largest school in...

, Rittmarshausen

Rittmarshausen

Rittmarshausen is a nucleated village in the municipality Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The village of 776 residents is primarily agricultural and home of people working in Göttingen...

 (where it is joined by the Bernsroder Bach), Wöllmarshausen, Benniehausen (where the Bischhäuser Bach joins it), Klein Lengden

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. It has about 1300 inhabitants...

 (where the Bramke and Eichbach join it), and Diemarden

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 largest village in Gleichen. In 2006, there were 1078 residents eligible to vote. The village's elevation is 172 meters above mean sea level...

. The stream joins the Leine River south of Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

. With a drop of 151 m, the stream averages a bed slope of 6.6‰. The watershed is 87 km². It is classified as a third-order (i.e., lowest) 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, a 750 mm narrow-gauge railway running from Goettingen to Duderstadt.

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)