Hohenhager Bach

The mouth of the Mirker Bach into the Wupper

The Mirker Bach is a 5,894 -meter-long river in the Wuppertal city districts Uellendahl Katernberg and Elberfeld. The creek that is a tributary of the river Wupper is how the Mirker grove and the Mirker height after area Mirke named, which is about the confluence of the creek and Vogelsang Eschenbeek with the Mirker Bach. Here was at least since the 16th century, a heritage " Mirke " around which the Garnbleicherei was investigated.

Topography

The Mirker Bach, whose upper course is not clearly identified, rises in the north of Wuppertal. The Wupperverband takes the 897 meter long High Hagerbach ( sometimes referred to as Hohenhagener Bach written ) as the upper reaches of the creek to Mirker. This originates in the rural area near the village of Dönberg. The High Hagerbach flows from its source in the south-west and, after about 600 meters on the Hatzfelder brook, which flows from the left in the stream. After another 300 meters, the High Hagerbach combined with the 889 -meter-long Hagerbach.

From around the present-day intersection of Dönberger road and Uellendahler street it is called Mirker Bach and from here is 4998 meters long to the mouth. He now passes under the Dönberger road that follows the creek then left the course, to the south. Shortly after passing under flows of Honsbuschsiefen, who had previously filled a pond, right time. to around 370 meters flows through the Mirker Bach a Stream Landscape parallel to Uellendahler road until it crosses under these On Raukamp. Behind the commercial settlements on the road Uellendahler it flows above ground on the northern edge of the ridge of the mountain little room or vineyard in a southwesterly direction. On the 2,100 -meter course is piped from the right side of the 250 meter long and 818 meter long Zamenhofbach stream on Burned it.

At the end of the ridge, the Mirker creek turns south and runs with the Uellendahler road piped on. She hangs from the right inlet through the 1251 meter long Vogelsang Bach and also of the coming from the right of the 1377 -meter-long Eschenbeek. Behind a gas station he runs again for 90 meters above ground and then passes under the federal motorway 46 (A 46). Although the highway spans the valley with a bridge running the Mirker Bach piped on and then passes under the disused " Wuppertal Northern Railway ". This is also near the Bahnhof Wuppertal - Mirke, who was a second central station of Elberfeld earlier.

The stream is now running to the mouth on underground and follows the Uellendahler road that goes into the street Gathe. Both roads are at the western foot of Engelberg. Before the Gathe is excreted in Morianstrasse, the piping of the Mirker creek runs past to the southwest on the Neumarkt and runs below the pedestrian area of ​​the Wall, where he fed the moat of the medieval fortifications Castle Elberfeld. Here near the headquarters of the Sparkasse Wuppertal opens the Mirker Bach in 154 meters above sea level as a right tributary to the river Wupper.

Restructuring for 2011

In January 2011, began to close the mouth of the Mirker Bach to the discharge collector Wupper.

Etymologe and history

The name Mirker Bach is a derivative of marker Bach, Mark Bach ( = Grenzbach ). With the name of the property is characterized as high medieval boundary of the Free County Volmarstein that is handed down from a boundary description of the 16th century.

The Mirker Bach was in the 19th century next to the river Wupper and the Barmer Mühlengraben one of the most polluted rivers in Wuppertal. Numerous commercial and residential waste water was discharged into the creek. On the occasion of the frequent cholera epidemics expressed the Kreisphysikus Brisken over the Mirker Bach:

" [ The Mirker Bach was ] ... as a recording location of each and every animal and human excrement not only, but also dogs, cats, all house pests, found a willing burial site in the same, at all everything was thrown into the open maw, which just kind of superfluous in the could be considered house capable. "

1807 ordered the Elberfeld Mayor Abraham Frowein:

"By so many complaints about the pouring of Raumkotes into the Wupper, which have been Mirker Bach, so put forward as in the streets, garden paths and public places, including in any case this police illegal mischief can by no means be looked longer - as are the desfalls long ago prohibitions laid down repeatedly, and each like mischief under penalty [ of ] 3 thalers, or possibly prison term in the inability awareness event, and that the debris should be in addition to the taken away at his expense prohibited, and applied to the policeman, thereon to watch warped fixed. "

Over the following years the waste in the Mirker Bach was followed with strict punishment by the municipal police. But except these were commercial sewage discharge.

Conservation

A 26- acre area at the source area, which is also referred to as High Hagerbach is a nature reserve with the title designated " High Hager river valley and the surrounding area ." The protection was made:

• To maintain and develop existing biotope complexes as Refugial and regeneration room for wet locations linked to animal and plant species
• To maintain a natural, locally significant watercourse with typical riverine fauna
• Preservation of the structural richness of stream valley with damp and wet grassland, spring swamps and wet wastelands, natural riparian woodland of alder, ash and willow trees and small forest stands with old wood
• From regional reasons and because of the specific nature of the culturally and historically significant structures with ancient hedgerows, paths relationships, and traces the historical use ( Meiler places for the production of charcoal in the woods and slag finds)