Menkebach

The Menke stream for transmit

The Menke Bach ( called the upper reaches Menkhauser Bach or Schopke ) is an orographic left tributary of the Dalke in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. It has a length of 20.1 km.

River course

The Menke Bach arises as Menkhauser brook northwest of Oerlinghausen on the grounds of the estate Menkhausen in the Teutoburg Forest. After a few hundred meters he takes on the coming from the northwest inlet Schopke and then flows into the sharply rising relief cut the nature reserve " Schopketal and Menkhauser stream valley " where the waters of another source pot added.

Notwithstanding the official naming is often referred to as " Schopke " in the vernacular, but also on maps, the entire Menke Bach.

In the course of the stream is the former border between the county Ravens mountain and the country lip and thus the present Bielefeld city boundary to the circle lip.

North of the village Lipper batch exists a drain with the name Dalbkebach, this part of the water is drained towards the town center. This watercourse flows later in the country Erbach, thus forming a link between the rivers.

In the lower area of the nature reserve of the stream reaches the roughly two-acre " Dalbker pond " and changes its name from its flow in " Menke Bach". When Dalbker pond there is a built in 1835 dam to power the built by the industrialist Friedrich Ludwig Tenge Dalbker paper mill with water.

The Menke stream then flows south-east of the Senne townspeople hamlet Dalbke and northwest of the city of Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock over largely rural area in the direction of transmission, and in the further course north of the city of Verl over. Larger inflows will not be included throughout the course, which is why the Menke Bach is quite narrow in the lower reaches in comparison to the neighboring Senne streams. In Sürenheide there is a connection to Knisterbach.

Southeast of the Gütersloh Menke Bach happened nor the strand mill to open shortly in the Dalke, which drains into the Ems. The waters overcomes during its flow path a height difference of 129 meters, thus results in an average bed slope of 6.4 ‰.

Flora and Fauna

Since the Menke Brook in the upper reaches ( there as Menkhauser Bach) mostly runs through the grounds of a nature reserve, the water quality is there at least above average. In this area next to the wagtails and dippers also the fire salamander is found. The slopes of the Bachaue are covered with beech and pine trees.

Others

The Menke Bach is one of the few rivers that originate in the Teutoburg Forest and year round in supply to the Senne water. The majority of the springing of the Teutoburg forest streams seeps shortly after leaving the highlands in the sand.