Leimbach (Wupper)

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The Leimbach is a 3.271 km long river in the district of Wuppertal Barmen. The creek, a tributary of the river Wupper, is also the namesake for streets named Leimbacher road and in the Leimbach.

Etymology

The etymological origin of Leimbaches comes from the Low German word Lembeck and explained by water containing iron.

Topography

The creek rises near the former Hofschaft Flanhard in a commercial area in around 283 meters above sea level on the North Downs in the Barmer district of Wuppertal Hatzfeld near the city limits of Sprockhövel. The valley is also the watershed between the Wupper and dysentery. The first 180 meters of the creek runs within the commercial area piped to the south.

In the " tram incision Riescheid ", which is protected as a natural geological monument of Wuppertal, he comes to the surface and flows through a big turn. This turn is part of the route of the railway line Loh - Hatzfeld, which interrupted by their construction the natural stream. Since the construction of the incision of the Leimbach the railway line follows.

About 700 meters behind the source pushes the left inlet Lehmbeck piped to Leimbach. After about 900 meters occurs to the right of the one trench, the lower remnant of the original watercourse before construction of the railway, and the added Leimbach running again plumbed for about 100 meters in a south-westerly direction to Riescheid over. The formerly located there Riescheid yard was one of the earliest settlement sites Barmen and was first mentioned in 1466.

From here it follows the north of the survey on which the Barmer North Park is located. After he is again piped some distance he joins after approximately 1.6 kilometers to the source of the brook Yellow jump passes under ( so named because of its ferruginous water, the surrounding sports fields bear the name of the source) and flows back southwards and while the federal highway 46, the Leimbach, who now again flowing superficially turns on the western border of the survey, again in a southeasterly direction. At this point earlier was a pool, which was filled in around 1918, the area that is now on the road in the Leimbach (appointment date October 1885 ) is overbuilt as a commercial area. The farm Leimbach, who has already been mentioned to 1466, also was here. The resulting previous hamlet Upper and Lower Lembeck have been merged in the inner-city area since the beginning of the 20th century.

Approximately 2.2 kilometers to the source of the Leimbach running again piped on and receives inflow from the creek at the Zietenstraße. Before Sedan mountain he turns back south below the curve of the road Leimbacher ( 1871/72 for the first time in the address recorded ) until the development of the road Steinweg is reached. Below the Steinwegs the Leimbach continues in a southerly direction until it empties into about 157 meters above sea level in the mill stream, a tributary of the river Wupper today overbuilt.

The creek as historical boundary line

Along the Leimbach and its source Bach Yellow jump 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.