Teufelsbach (Müggenbach)
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The Devil Bach is a right tributary of the orographic Morsbach by- Bach Bach Mügge. The entire stream flows on the city of Remscheid. The valley is traversed by the Teufelsbachtal, the average gradient of the stream is 70.6 ‰.
Description
The source is located in Hohen Hagen town close to the Hohenhagener road, the mouth in the area of retention basin Oelmühle, near Hägener mill. The total length of the river is about 1.6 km away.
The creek flows through the Teufelsbachtal ( Botiopkataster BK 4809-027 of LÖBF ). Beibei is a "structure- rich stream valley with a natural creek route, riparian forest remnants, semi-natural hillside forest, moist and lean pasture '. The valley is situated in a protected area (Landscape Plan W 2.3.3: Rest of the conservation area in the area of forested slopes and floodplains of Diepmannsbach, Morsbach, Teufelsbach, Lüttringhauser Bach and Buscherhofbach ). The upper Teufelsbachtal forms a landscape aesthetic unity with the open plateau landscape Hohenhagen.
In the upper reaches of the nature reserve Upper Teufelsbachtal (free space band Teufelsbach / Hohenhagen ) were recorded. It is a "structure- rich, open, predominantly occupied as grassland, Mulde. " Defined by hedges and shrubs meadowland, a " relic of the rural landscape of the Bergisch Land " is a richly textured biotope complex. The natural creek environment is the habitat for many rare species such as Milvus migrans ( Black Kite ), Cinclus cinclus ( Eurasian dippers ), Ancylus fluviatilis ( river cap screw ) and Bythinella dunkeri ( Dunkers spring snail ) as well as plant species such as small sedge and Sparganion - glycerion (Bach reeds ). In the stream representative of salmonids (salmon fish) were detected.
On the edge of Teufelsbachtals a section of the loop trail is A1 (Upper Morsbachtal ). To habitat development along the Teufelsbach 2009, about 3.5 million euros were spent by the Wupperverband.
Pool " devil pond "
In the 1920s, a swimming pool was built in the lower reaches of the Teufelsbach. The Devil Bach was it moved underground and flowed here only cased. The outdoor pool was popularly soon the name "Devil's Pond ". After the Second World War, the pool was used until the 1960s as an association pool and then fell unused. The end of 2000 Wupperverband began with the help of young people from a job creation measure of Stadtbetriebs development of the city of Wuppertal with the Renaturisierung. The sometimes massive buildings were demolished and applied to a semi-natural river bed, through which the devil stream flows above ground again. Along the creek, the waters typical in Bergisch Land bank planting, primarily consisting of alder, ash, beech, elder and hazel, planted.