Bendahler Bach

The Bendahler creek in the middle reaches at low tide

View along the river valley Bendahler, in the middle of the head office of the insurance Barmenia

The valley of the Bendahler Bach, seen from Nützenberg

The Bendahler Bach is a 2.44 km long river in the district of Wuppertal Elberfeld. The creek, a tributary of the river Wupper, is also named after a district of Wuppertal and the former prison Bendahl.

Topography

The river has its source in a spring pool in 319 meters height near a residential area on Böhler way. A second pond immediately with a concrete weir was drained in the 1980s. The nearby hilltop Lichtscheid there is a location of the headquarters of the Barmer GEK and the leisure Bergische Sonne. A tube connects the river with the grounds of the leisure pool, at the time of the former tram and bus depots sewage into the creek were initiated by the before the construction of the bath.

Next it flows above ground in a northerly direction along a wooded valley, the creek has created over time. The Böhler downhill trail follows the creek on the left. After about a kilometer river flows from the left side of the 481 meter long Böhler Bach in the Bach Bendahler. About 300 meters further on also opens from the left side of the 480 meter long Böhler Hofer Bach. After 30 meters it runs piped on, past the pool of water Wuppertal friends and a pond.

This pond is the renatured small remnant of the large and popular lido area Bendahl whose pool was fed by the creek. Although the pool had bordered with concrete walls, but a natural soil of mud. In the second half of the 20th century was such an underground no more and thus will be the outdoor pool. In the late 1980s, it was dismantling a small park with a pond. The outdoor swimming pool is also associated with the low-rise building is now exploited as a scout hall from the Association of Guides and Scouts of Wuppertal. The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts try to get through donations and voluntary initiative of the house.

Further down the river again enters the side of a parking lot of a commercial area on the surface to piped running again after another 200 meters. The Böhler path merges with the Bendahler road and the stream changes sides. Now the Bendahler stream runs left this road. In the height of the intersection of Bendahler road with the road Wolkenburg flows from the right cased 780 meter-long stream at the Busch Road in Bendahler Bach. Shortly after the creek passes under the railway line Elberfeld- Dortmund and the Federal Highway 7 (B 7). There formerly was the prison Wuppertal, on the other hand, the Wicküler Brewery.

Near the largest inland island in the Wupper, the court Island, then opens the stream at the District Court of Wuppertal in the left tributary of the river Wupper in around 154 meters above sea level.

The valley of the brook Bendahler

Along the valley, higher than the Bendahler road and Böhler way the well-developed regional road runs 417 (L 417) also Ronsdorfer road. It establishes an important link road from Elberfeld center to the heights and further to the district Ronsdorf. In addition to the Barmer GEK on the Lichtscheid has Barmenia insurance here at the Valley of the principal place of business. Barmenia has 2006/2007 its administrative grounds by three other high-rise buildings significantly expanded ( In the adjacent lower image can not be seen ).

The creek as historical boundary line

The Bendahler stream separated in the late Middle Ages, the Bergische offices Beyenburg and Elberfeld. Since Barmen was occupied 1399-1420 by the Counts of the Mark, was to secure this border on the west side of the creek, a portion of the Bergisch Landwehr.

Older names

First mention in 1466

The first written mention of the settlement and the forest by the stream comes from a Beyenburger official statement of 1466th There the charges of lying in the valley court Barendahl ( = bear) and the rights of the courtyard at the ducal forest, the Boele determined.

1603

On a Gemarkenkarte (1603 ) by John of the Waye carries the stream depending on the section several names. In the upper reaches to the intersection of today's Böhler Bach today Bendahler Bach as Boehler Sieffe (See: Siepen ) is called, the current Böhler Bach, however, as Laßsieffe or in the upper reaches Laßype. From the confluence of today Bendahler Bach was also named then Laßsieffe.

Today Böhler Hofer Bach was called Kotzsieffe. From its junction with the name of today's Bendahler Bach moved in front Beck ( See: Bäke ).

After passing under the Altstrasse of Barmen Elberfeld the creek was named Vurderbeck. Whether it is with the change from front to Beck Vurderbeck a clerical error is not clear. At the mouth of the creek in the Wupper the Hofschaft Vurderhöffe was in any case on the grounds of today's electronics market to Ibbert. Since there was a ford over the river, the name of the court directs presumably ago by crossing the river Wupper. Later, the names of the farms converts in Further courtyards.

1715

The Bendahler Bach was loud Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies 1715 also Capell Bach. Probably comes the name from the nearby Lichtscheid near the source located Hofschaft Capell ( In J. vd Waye: Capeller Höffe, as Kapell 1466 also mentioned). The place name Capell still lives on today in the village chapels.

In Ploennies the old Hofschaft Barendahl is now referred to in the valley as Pandahl. An etymological connection of Barendahl, Pandahl and Bendahl is assumed.