The Hase is a 169.7 km river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north slope of the 307 m Hankenüll hill.

Weser-Ems watershed

After about 15 km, near Gesmold and about 6 km west of Melle, the Hase encounters an anomaly of terrain and bifurcates such that each branch flows in a different drainage system:

Towns

Hydroelectricity

Currently one Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is installed

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