Galkhauser Bach

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The Galkhauser Bach is a 9.8 km long stream in the North Rhine-Westphalian cities Leichlingen (Rheinland), Langenfeld ( Rheinland) and Dusseldorf.

Location and topography

The Galkhauser creek rises in the (also referred Roßlenbruch ) Riedbachaue south of the road L 288 west of the city Leichlingen (Rheinland). As Ried stream flows through the floodplain in south-westerly direction and crosses under the road L 288 and the parallel Federal Highway 3, between the L 403 ( Bergische Landstraße ) and L 291 ( Solinger Straße ) at the same time, the city boundary Langenfelds. As " Hapelrather Bach" it flows through Hapelrath and crosses under the 1874 built railway line Troisdorf- Mülheim- Morsbroich -Opladen - Immigrath Rich Rath Speldorf the former Rhenish Railway Company near the underpass of the communication path from the " Old School Road" to Furth. Remains of a dry feed from the direction Leichlingen trumpet can be found from the A 3 along the forest edge parallel to the " Trompeterstraße ". In the West ended this former tributaries, however, immediately before and three meters above the route of the railway line. His alleged old bed takes this feed again until about the height of the tunnel under the railway line on. With his profound, new river bed of the creek Galkhauser drains the southern areas of the Further Moores and restricts the core area of the bog on the block from the creek flowing through it, the northern part. In height Dückeburg Castle also he takes on a left tributaries, which served the drainage and thus the regulation of water moats of the former moated castle suspected earlier. The former feed to the moat, a small stream, has its origins in the local situation Virneburg. A befindliches behind the farm " Möckenburg " rectangular pool of water in the forest was once suspected of controlling the admission to the trenches of the castle Dückeburg Castle.

In the Rhenish clinics in the district Galkhausen the Bach gets left-sided inflow from Reusrather stream, which in the meadows also Locher Locher stream is called, and now flows in a northwesterly direction. Piped he crosses the west -flowing Federal Highway 542 and replaced after inflow of the left side of Bach again in a northwesterly direction. There he crosses the Langenfeld city center, takes on Hucklenbruch from right to block Bach and disappears in the area of ​​Long Fields marketplace ( the goose Pohl ) in a casing. The road above the goose is also here Pohler Bach Bach said Galkhauser named creek road. In the piping it first changes its flow direction to the west, before the north-western main direction is taken again. In the western part of the creek road, from the junction of the Lilienthal path, the river is again performed overground and on long drives to the city limits in a now back close to nature ( renatured ) creek bed.

Between the Theodor -Heuss-Straße and the bathhouse he also handles the Immigrather Bach, who has traversed the entire city underground. From the equestrian center Good Langfort the Galkhauser stream leaves inner-city areas and flows through parks and fields of Düsseldorf city limits. Here the Galkhauser Bach is also called the Long Forter Bach. Shortly before the border flows of the East nor of Burbach, just behind the Kaiser- Wilhelm- ditch. In the district of Düsseldorf Garath the Galkhauser Bach finally joins up with Castle Garath in the Garather mill creek.