Gillbach

Gillbach at Rommerskirchen

The Gillbach ( also: Gillbach ) is a right tributary of the Erft. The water flows in North Rhine -Westphalia.

River

The " source " of the Gillbachs located in Auenheim in Bergheim on the northern foothills of the Ville back to 93 m above sea level. NN. There he is fed by the cooling water of power plant Niederaußem. Its original headwaters, of Bethlehem Forest, was dredged by the opencast mines Bergheim and Fortuna Garsdorf between the 1950s and 1980s.

The Gillbach flows through the city of Bergheim in the Rhine -Erft, the community Rommerskirchen, the city Grevenbroich and the city of Neuss in Rhein-Kreis Neuss.

Other tributaries of the Gillbachs are mainly ditches, storm water derived from the fields. These so-called self-leveling dry in the summer of mostly. A constant water inflow was leading the beans stream, it flowed through Oberaußem and Niederaußem and culminated in Auenheim in the Gillbach. The beans Bach was the most important source of inflow Gillbachs. He first led rain water from the foothills of Ville back later and wastewater for Gillbach. Because of the odor the water was channeled and run underground. The treated wastewater from Oberaußem be launched today in the Gillbach.

History

The areas on the stream are inhabited since the Neolithic Age. The first evidence that left people come from around 400 BC. Finds at Auenheim prove this.

The Gillbach was the namesake of the Gillgaues, a medieval Frankish Gaugrafschaft.

Due to the fertile soil of the right and left of the creek the landscape from Niederaußem was until shortly before Neuss also known as " The Gilbach ". In several newspaper inserts from the 1950s, which appeared under the title "Between Erft and Gillbach ," local journalists went in detail the turbulent history of the former district of Bergheim.

Sights on Gillbach

• Niederaussem power plant
• Coal refining operation Fortuna -Nord
• St. Medard ( Auenheim )
• Ordenshof ( Auenheim )
• Monk courtyards ( at Niederaußem )
• Castle Geretzhoven ( at Hüchelhoven )
• St. Michael ( Rheidt - Hüchelhoven )
• St. Peter ( Rommerskirchen )
• Castle Anstel
• Lambertus Chapel (approx. 9th century ) in Rommerskirchen - Ramrath, one of the oldest chapels in the Rhineland.

Infrastructure at Gillbach

Along the Gillbachs there are many hiking and biking trails.

The railway line from Cologne to Monchengladbach crosses the Gillbach in the municipality of Rommerskirchen immediately before the Steinbrückerhof. On this railway line, the two lines run RE 8 (Rhein -Erft Express) and RB 27 (Rhein -Erft train). Between Rommerskirchen Niederaußem and running in about 500 meters distance, the former railway line Rommerskirchen - Niederaußem - Bergheim / Quad -Ichendorf (part of the "Strategic embankment "). Here since the 1970s takes place only freight today's RWE Power AG.

On Gillbach the B 477 and B run 59