Arzdorfer Bach

Channeled Godesberger Bach in Alt - Godesberg between Fountain Avenue and Castle Street

The Godesberg stream, in the headwaters of 4.5 km Arzdorfer Bach, is a 15.5 km long, orographic left tributary of the Rhine in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

The stream originates as Arzdorfer Bach Fritz village, a district of Wachtberglifte, at an altitude of 220 m above sea level. NHN. First, flowing down to the north reaches the creek after about one kilometer stretch of river the village Arzdorf which is eponymous for the upper reaches. Next in northerly flowing stream passes the small Villip and Grimmersdorfer yard. This turns the run in north-eastern directions. Below the mouth of the large creek at the castle Gudenau the creek is listed as Godesberger Bach.

About 600 meters further reaches of the creek the northwestern outskirts of Villip and a little later bad luck. Accompanied by the country road L158 reached the creek Bad Godesberg. Here the creek is channeled in parts. North of the Moltkestraße the creek comes back to the surface. In the park of the reader Godesberger stream flows at 48 m above sea level. NHN left side at km 647.88 in the Rhine.

Catchment and inflows

The 36.3 km ² catchment area is drained by the Rhine to the North Sea.

The following are the tributaries of the Godesberg Bach are called in order from source to mouth, as they are called in directory waters NRW.

History

In the 17th century the Godesberg Bach was in a channel along the former Cologne - Mainz road (later Coblenzerstraße and today B9 ) extended to Bonn. First, running on the east side of the road, he left them at the Hofgarten, where he fed a pool of water. This branch of the Godesberg Bach operation some mills, in 1860 one of the company Zuntz. Their own bridges linking the resulting in the 19th century mansions in the Bonn Rhine with the Coblenzerstraße, prior to the current site of the Foreign Office at the beginning of the diagonal leading to the towpath Plittersdorfer alley and a public (as of 1846). End of the 1880s the artificial stream was removed and erected in its place a sidewalk.

Flood risk

The Godesberg Bach performs regularly floods during heavy rain and, with the surrounding terrain to reported by the district government of Cologne floodplains.