Lottenbach

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The Lotte Bach is a tributary of the Ruhr. He characterizes the green corridor Lottental in the southwest of Bochum in the districts of Bochum and Bochum Stiepelmann - Querenburg.

Natural space

The valley in east-west direction from the first Stiepeler stream, then flows through waters referred Lottenbach which opens at a length of about 3.5 km at Kemnade in the Ruhr or the Oelbach. Its tributaries are Voßkuhlbach and Kalwesbach. The water quality class varies between II and III.

The valley is sparsely populated and is dominated by pastures and oak -beech mixed forest.

The Ibis Bochum is known for its amphibians, including water frogs, toad, newt, newts and salamanders. The birds include Tawny Owl, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

The planned expansion of the Ruhr University in the area of the G- building will lead to a restriction of the habitat.

Settlement and industrial history in the area of the Ruhr- University

It is believed that the name goes back to Lotte (Westphalian for mill). There were at least two mills, one at the level of the farm Grünendiek, another to 1918 at the height of the coal mine monastery bush. Another guess is that the valley is named after the air tubes that were moved from the mine Julius Philipp in 1875 in the Wiesenthälern of Stiepeler stream to reduce the inflow of water into the utility lines.

The line passing through the valley road goes back to the Lotte Valley Railway, a former horse track for the transport of the valley funded by the coal mines to the Ruhr. This early railway was built around 1830 and ran on wooden rails. In the upper part of the valley was a few years ago flushed a former retaining wall of the track during a storm; the archaeological evidence was backed up as ground monument and is now freely accessible.

Approximately another 1 km from the mouth of the Ruhr are traces of the coal mining industry, which in 1959 ended here with the closure of small coal mine Emma luck on Julius Philipp Erbstollen.

To gain more grazing and settlement areas, the creek was taken in a concrete channel and has even been completely cased in the lower course. Staff of the Biological Station in eastern Ruhr Herne and the Geographical Institute of the Ruhr- University Bochum determined in 1997 by site surveys and cadastral maps from the 19th century, the old stream. On 7 November 1997 began about 200 pupils of secondary schools Schiller School and Graf- Engelbert- school to renature with spade, shovel and cultivator on a distance of at least 200 m the upper stream. Following typical riparian woodlands ( alder and willow ) were planted.

The creek flows through a large pond and is part of the pond complex of the Botanical Garden of the Ruhr- University Bochum. The valley is known for its rich in Bochum amphibian fauna. During the period of Krötenwanderung the only road is blocked every year to lay their eggs to offer natterjack toads and other endangered species protection during the peak walking time from March 1 to April 15. Since 1980, this local conservation organizations involved.

Striking is the large quarry in Lottental, the largest geologic outcrop in Bochum, Stockumer saddle, was recovered in the material for the backfilling of the mined seams of coal mine monastery bush. Behind the former pithead baths are botanical experimental plots. Here is also the largest contiguous forest cover in Bochum, the Kalwes.

In Lottental there are other facilities of the Ruhr- University Bochum. In rooms of the former colliery monastery Busch training workshop for experimental archeology faculty is housed of History. Here stone processing, bronze casting and other techniques are being tested and researched. In the same building there are the testing facilities of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

In the house Lottental 38 which is home to " Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Research " ( ZEFIR ). It is a central scientific institution of the Ruhr- University Bochum. Here is settled among other things, the "Information and Training Centre for Local Authorities" in North Rhine -Westphalia ( IQZ ).