Hauptkanal Sterkrade

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The main channel Sterkrade is a body of water in the river Emscher system that runs with a total length of approximately 5.4 kilometers by the Oberhausen city district Sterkrade.

The upper course, which begins below the heap Haniel Sterkrader Venn near the Fernewaldstraße is known as Reiner Bach. It flows through the Sterkrader Heath and the landscape conservation area Reinersbachtal near the Rügen road. A portion of the stream has been rehabilitated in recent times under the project conversion of the Emscher system, but below the Sustmannshofs at the Hedwigstraße he disappears under the earth, and is tubed derived to approximately 1.5 km in length under the Sterkrader city center and the railway line Oberhausen- Arnhem and this combined with the Alsbach and the Elpenbach.

The outlet of the main duct

Main channel Sterkrade

Beyond the Von Trotha - road the waters between Aldenkampshof and Hegerfeld road comes to light again and is now being continued as cultivated by the Emschergenossenschaft channel in a westerly direction between the districts Schwarze Heide and Weier Heath. Immediately after passing under the motorway 3 he is introduced into the hand Bach, in the east of the district Biefang opens about 200 meters later in the Emscher.