Bärenbach (Furlbach)

The Bear Creek near its mouth

The Bear Creek is a tributary of the orographic left Furlbachs in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. It has a length of 2.2 km.

River course

The Bear Creek originates in the field of military training area in a herdsman named as Barental Kastental. The source of the water body is located just on the boundary of Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock, however, the bear creek as arroyo is to continue in the municipality of August the village.

The Bear Creek flows to the flattening of the Teutoburg Forest upstream Senne following landscape in southwestern direction from runs exclusively in his stream valley cut through wooded terrain. After a little more than two kilometers flow distance the waters on the southern border of the Furlbachtals opens on the left side in the Furlbach. It overcomes during its flow path a height difference of 21 meters, thus results in an average bed slope of 9.5 ‰.

Location

The Bear Creek is located in a water protection area from which attract the Stadtwerke Bielefeld within the river valley from about 30 wells drinking water.

Furthermore, almost the entire course of the Bear Bach is within a military restricted zone, which leads to a sporadic accessibility of Bärentals. This fact ensures the stream is not formally legal, but a factual nature. The water quality is accordingly due to lack of agricultural or industrial discharges hardly affected.