Silberbach (Heubach)
Silver Creek at Feldrom
The Silver Creek is an approximately 11 km long tributary of the Heubach in the south of the Lippe, North Rhine -Westphalia.
Course
The creek rises between the villages of Kempen and Feldrom belonging to Horn-Bad Meinberg. In Silberbachtal flowing at the foot of Velmerstots over sandstone cliffs after Leopoldstal. Between Heesten and Vinsebeck it flows into the Heubach flowing in Steinheim in the Emmer.
Name
Originally called the Bach Möllen water. The name comes from Silver Creek ( small ) silver finds in between 1711 and 1712.
History
At the stream was oriented roughly the historical border between the lip and the Prussian principality of Paderborn, also the geographical divide between the Teutoburg Forest and the Eggegebirge.
After the Thirty Years War, the border disputes were eliminated in 1658 with the original Lippspringischen comparison. It says the demarcation among others: up to the Möllen water, such gestaldt that the mountain goats gantz and zumahl Lippisch, the all Veldtdrömern but there until the Kattenbeke with Holtz and Heide their mithude remains ...
Mills
Mills used the water power: The first concession was awarded in 1612 from the Lippe gentlemen. The blacksmith provided for an annual ax to the princely Rentkammer. At the beginning of the 19th century, there were up to seven mills and forges. In the upper reaches, there were three grinding mills, grinding up to four mills and two fulling mills. Today are the remains of the silver, the stronghold and a grinding mill. The Silver Mill is the former " pack house", which used the silver ore was washed out. It was in 1711 converted into a grist mill, which was soon being called Silbermühle. 1895 Müller received the concession for the establishment of an inn. The mill operation ran until 1927.
Fauna
Specially protected species that live in the Silberbachtal:
- Red-backed Shrike
- Bullhead
- Corncrake