Fischertaler Bach

The fisherman Taler Bach

The fisherman Taler Bach

The fisherman Taler Bach is a 1.254 km long river in the district of Wuppertal Barmen. The creek, a tributary of the river Wupper, is also named after a street called Fischertal.

Etymology

The etymological origin of the fishermen Taler Bach comes from the family of fishermen. The cotton manufacturer and banker Johann Wilhelm Fischer (1779-1845) moved with his family there. His family funded in 1847 with the city to build the unpaved footpath to a road. Since then, the road, the valley and the river bearing the name of the family.

An older name was Klever Bach. The name is derived from the 1466 first mentioned Hofschaft Kleff at the mouth of the creek into the Wupper; now called the local situation Cleff. The walk was named after the local family Reuter "Reuters Kleverweg ".

Topography

The creek originates in around 319 meters above sea level, about 20 meters west of a clearing in the forest Barmer and then flows in a northerly direction towards the valley. Above a tennis court swung the creek in a northeasterly direction. Here at the site of the tennis court was located the estate Fischertal with a quarry. Later it was up to the Second World War the dairy Fischertal.

After about 350 meters from the source stream crosses under the upper Lichtenplatzer road in a northerly direction and pushes another 30 meters to the road Fischertal that in a serpentine road to the Upper Lichtenplatzer high winds. Here the creek is also good to see from the road that leads through a wooded terrain.

After about 480 meters from the source stream running piped under the road Fischertal on, which is built in its course with houses you. The fisherman Taler Bach also no longer occurs at the surface and flows just below the traffic intersection Alter Markt in around 156 meters above sea level.

The creek as historical boundary line

Along the creek was in the Middle Ages the boundary of Electoral Cologne (later Brandenburg ) parish Schwelm that separated it from Bergisch parish Elberfeld. At the same time this border divided the Deanery Deanery Lüdenscheid from Deutz and the two Gogericht districts Schwelm and Elberfeld. This limit exists today in the separation line between Oberbarmen and Unterbarmen (Lower Barmen ). This limit was secured in the late Middle Ages by a militia, which ran from Hoerath about Hatzfeld, along the streams Leimbach and fishing creek valleys and over the mountain to Scharpenacker Laaken over to the castle Beyenburg.