Spreeler Bach

Griese Siepen and Spreeler mill in Spreeler Bachtal

The Spreeler stream valley overlooking the mill Spreeler

The Spreeler Bach is a right tributary of the river Wupper. It formed in its lower reaches the boundary between the Rhineland and Westphalia.

Location and topography

The creek rises to 323 meters above sea level. NN southeast of the town of King Ennepetal field and flows into its river valley to the twin town Spreeler mill / Griese Siepen, leads into the city on the border with Radevormwald the Brebach. From there, the Spreeler creek forms the boundary between city and Ennepetal Radevormwald and thus also the border between the Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis and the Oberbergisch district, between the districts of Cologne and Arnsberg and the boundary between the Rhineland and Westphalia.

This boundary layer since the late Middle Ages existed as a dividing line between the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark. To protect the borders Elberfeld line of Bergisch- Märkischen Landwehr was created from 1300 on the southeast side of the creek, which continued from the Spreeler mill along the Brebachs.

In the old industrial site Mühlenfeld the Spreeler stream flows at 201 meters above sea level. NN in the storage root of Beyenburger reservoir, a Aufstaus the Wupper. In the middle of the Wupper the city boundary with Wuppertal, so that the stream also affects the administrative district of Dusseldorf here.