Gierskoppbach

Greed Koppenbach in Elleringhausen

The yaw Koppenbach ( even called greed Kopp ) is about the Lutter Becke 11.9 km, about the Medebach 13.9 km long right tributary of the Ruhr in Hochsauerlandkreis, North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ). Without his two source streams, Lutter Becke and Medebach, its length is 8.2 km.

Geography

Course

The yaw Koppenbach created by the confluence of Lutter Becke and Medebaches in Bruchhausen. The approximately 5.8 km long Medebach rises in the saddle between Öhrenstein ( 792.1 m) and on the Sternrodt ( 789.4 m) to about 746 m above sea level. NN ( ⊙ 51.278758.5389166666667 ), flows north and reaches breaking Hausen to about 4.4 km. The approximately 3.7 km long Lutter Becke springs north of Beieck ( 695 m) east of the virgin stone (650 m) to about 600 m altitude ( ⊙ 51.2943333333338.5256111111111 ), also flows north and reaches breaking Hausen to 3.2 km. Both streams unite at the northern edge of the village at 438 m altitude.

After the confluence of the flows now greed Koppenbach called riverine first in a northeasterly direction and is around 2 kilometers from the southern outskirts of Elleringhausen. In this elongated village, the stream used in a wide arc to the west. Here it flows around the Ruthenberg ( 547.5 m) in a long curve to the left, reached a little later greed Kopp and Olsberg and ends there after 8.2 km at 330 meters on the right side in the Ruhr. The yaw Koppenbach overcomes a difference in altitude of 107 m, corresponding to an average bed slope of 13 ‰.

Landscape

The yaw Koppenbach and partly also its headwaters to which the forest cover ranges often directly flow through agricultural valleys that are surrounded by wooded mountains. In addition to the Long Mountain to the south, above the source area, located include ( 843.2 m) on the right side in the east of Istenberg ( 728 m ) with the Bruchhauser stones, the broom head ( 663.3 m) and the Habberg ( 653.3 m) and to the north of the Borberg ( 670.2 m) and Eisenberg ( 606.2 m). On the left side rise the Heidkopf ( 715.3 m) and the Olsberg ( 703.8 m).

Stream length, basin and tributaries

The Ordnance Survey of North Rhine- Westphalia is the length of the yaw Kopp creek, including the 3.7 km long Lutter Becke as source stream with just under 11.9 kilometers. The real main stream, however, is of about 5.8 km long Medebach, with the greed Koppenbach is just under 13.9 kilometers long. The catchment area of ​​10.085 km ² with Medebachs is about four times larger than that of Lutter Becke. The entire catchment area of the yaw Kopp Bach is 35.202 km ².

Among the tributaries of the greed Kopp Bach belong with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length, mouth position and height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL; bach downward considered ):

Source streams:

  • Lutter Becke ( l; 3.7 km ), in Bruchhausen ( 438 m)
  • Medebach (r; 5.8 km ), in Bruchhausen ( 438 m)

Inflows:

  • Limmecke (r, 2.5 km), Elleringhausen (395 m)
  • Habbecke (r, 1.3 km), Elleringhausen ( 391 m)
  • Beter hollow (r, 1.7 km), Elleringhausen ( 382 m)
  • Schmitt Mecke ( l, 2.4 miles) below Elleringhausen ( 367 m)
  • Wermecke (r, 1.3 km), Olsberg yaw Kopp ( 347 m)
  • Sitter Bach (r; 4.7 km ), in Olsberg (331 m)

Towns

Villages on the greed Koppenbach are ( bach downward considered ):

  • Bruchhausen (south-eastern district of Olsberg )
  • Elleringhausen ( southeasterly district of Olsberg )
  • Greed Kopp (eastern residential area of ​​Olsberg )
  • Olsberg

Rhine -Weser watershed

About the east of nearby mountains Gierskoppbachtals Istenberg, broom head and Habberg the Rhine -Weser watershed runs. The yaw Koppenbach and accruing to the west flanks of these mountains watercourses flowing through the Ruhr to the Rhine, while the streams of the eastern flanks flow through the Schmalah, Hopp corner and Diemel the Weser.

Hiking and Sightseeing

Along the greed Kopp Bach and specifically extend over the adjacent mountains hiking trails that you can explore the countryside, for example, a section of running mostly on the main ridge of the Rothaargebirge Rothaarsteig, which passes to the Bruchhauser stones over the eastern mountains and there.

Among the sights and attractions on and near the greed Kopp Bach include ( bach downward considered ):

  • Castle Bruchhausen
  • Borbergskirchhof and Peace Chapel on the Borberg
Ruhr (river) Olsberg, Germany Langenberg (Rothaargebirge) Orography Hoppecke Arnsberg Forest Nature Park
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