Schwarzbach (Wupper)

Mouth of Black Creek in the Wupper

The Schwarzenbach, also called the upper reaches Mähler Beck, is a 4.035 km long river in the city of Wuppertal District Oberbarmen. He is a right tributary of the river Wupper.

The creek is named for the street Schwarzenbach. The dense urban residential development in the residential district of Wuppertal Oberbarmen - Schwarzenbach on this street is called also " The Black Bach". Also the name in the upper reaches, meals Beck, was the inspiration for a road and a settlement with pool and small garden area.

Etymology

The name probably derives from his black creek bed. Older names are forms such as Schwatte Becke ( Beek, Beck, Becke is a low form of German Bach). In 1614 the hall " auff the black Beck" is mentioned.

Topography

The creek rises to 277 meters above sea level in the district Mollenkotten in the residential district Nächstebreck -west, south of the federal highway 46 directly on their route. He gets directly behind the source of a right feed, which has previously passed under the highway. Shortly after he gets inflow from minor Kotter Siepen.

The black creek flows in a southeasterly direction in a natural area which consists of fields and meadows and has few individual settlements as Ochsenkamp or Horst. In the local situation Mähler Beck joins the left hand the Junker Beck in the Schwarzenbach, the largest inflow. In a Dole it passes under the site of the swimming pool Mähler Beck, then it flows through the grounds of the small garden in the feasts Beck.

Verdolt he crosses the country road L891 and again comes just at daylight to receive the Schellenbeck after another Dole. Shortly after the inflow of the stream now disappears to its mouth in a long Dole. It crosses the main road L58, east in the 18th and 19th centuries an important Kohlenweg between the Ruhr and Barmen, and follows the course of the densely built-up road Schwarzenbach to Wupper. Here, the stream passes through the extensive former factory premises of the company Luhns.

In the valley he passes under the highway 7 and the Berliner Platz and flows under the cable car terminus Oberbarmen relative to the upper Barmer railway station in the Wupper.

History

From the Middle Ages until 1922 was the Bach border waters. He parted among others, the Office of the Duchy of Berg Beyenburg by the Office of the County Weather and Mark was up to the incorporation Nächstebrecks in Barmen also boundary between the Rhineland and Westphalia.