Kaltenbach (Wupper)

Old Bach mounting of abrasive stones at Kaltenbach below the Manuelskottens

Front view of Manuelskottens

Stop the Bergisch Tram Museum in Kaltenbachtal

Location and description

The Kaltenbach rises to 231 m above sea level. NN near the Cronenberger center and ends after 2.2 km at 110 m above sea level. NN in the Wupper. At the creek are numerous storage ponds, which dammed the water to drive a water-driven hammer mills, three slip -cotta and two fruit mills, including the Friedrich hammer, the hammer and the Kaltenbacherstrasse used as an industrial museum Manuel cotta.

The Manuel cotta, also called Kaltenbacherstrasse cotta, is the only one still functioning grinding cotta on the city of Wuppertal. The restored plant has been part of Wuppertal in 1993 and serves as the Museum of Industry in order to show the old grinder craft can. The same time, but still produced industrially in the system for a tool Remscheid company craft knife, so that the craft has shown not just museum pieces.

Also in Kaltenbachtal runs the route of the museum route of the Bergisch tram museum. A 3.2 km long, running through the forest section of the former tram line from Elberfeld to Solingen was acquired by the Museum Association and is traveled at the weekend between Cronenberg horrors and Cronenberg Kohlfurth with historic trams. The extensive collection of vehicles kept on the club in his halls in Kohlfurth where the tram once the Wupper crossed over to the now listed Kohlfurther bridge.