Blombach

The Blombach seen from the Blombachtalbrücke from; side the A1

The Blombachtalbrücke from the Blombachtal

The railway and highway in the valley

The Blombach is a 3.6 -kilometer-long river in the city of Wuppertal District Ronsdorf. The creek that is a tributary of the river Wupper, is also the namesake for the residential district Blombach - Lohsiepen and Blombachtales.

Topography

The river has its source at which emerged on a Hofschaft Blombach hamlet south of the business park and then flows in an easterly direction. After about 350 meters of stream flows piped on and passes under the railway line Wuppertal -Solingen, wrong about the regional train RB 47 " The Müngstener ".

Then the Blombach turns north under cross through the Federal Highway 1 (A 1) and occurs after approximately 520 meters to the surface again. Here the creek had created a deeper valley, which is known under the name Blombachtal. The highway follows approximately 1.6 km this valley, where the direction of travel of both carriageways run separately from each other. The middle of the highway, where the Blombach runs is about 70 meters wide. The valley where now also the national road 58 (formerly Federal Road 51) descends from the heights, is spanned by the Blombachtalbrücke and turns to the east.

The Blombach crosses under again the A 1 and leaves the highway on the right side. From the left side of the 1.4 km long Schmalen Hofer Bach pushes it. From here flows the creek is up to mouth in sections further plumbed. It crosses again the L 58 and then flows into 195 meters sea level on the left side of the river Wupper.

Landwehr

At three points crossed the Bergische Landwehr Blombach. While the Barmer line crossed the valley in the amount of the old school house was a branch of the King James Landwehr in the amount Werbsiepen and another branch at the level of Blombachtalbrücke over the creek.

Water engines

On Blombach was used to power water wheels as in most streams in the quadrangle Wupper the water. The first water power plant on the run was the copper hammer was rolled in the possession of the company Ehrenberg & Leuschner in the least since 1828 copper. About the data of the construction and demolition hammer with two overshot waterwheels nothing further is known. It joined the Siepershammer (also called moth hammer or Paashammer ) to. The Raffinierhammer had three overshot water wheels and produced already in 1775 steel. In 1837 the Hammer served as the iron triangle hammer and Neusilberwalze.

300 meters was the Tillmanns hammer, a steel horizontal bar hammer, which was driven in 1824 with three overshot water wheels. Another 100 meters further operation in 1824 a member of the Goldberg family (see also Goldberg hammer in Hückeswagen ) a steel hammer Reck, who was also called Goldberg hammer. He also had three overshot water wheels.

All these buildings are no longer present and only place names recall some of them. The Blombach resulted in only a little water, so that all hammers often had to suspend their operations because of lack of water at times.