Monzenbach (Aar)

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The Monzenbach is a 4.5 km long orographic right ( north ) tributary of the Aar, a tributary of the dill. It rises in the southern Escaut forest, on the slopes of vetch Hain ( 435 m), and then first flows between the Dillenburger district Oberscheld and the Herborner district Seelbach west, then south to the north and west side of the Volpertsbergs ( 426 m) of the Aar to. Before its confluence with the Aar, it flows through the municipal area of Seelbach. The creek flows near Aar - km 19.1 to 214 m above sea level. NN.

History

The Monzenbachtal and the surrounding hills were inhabited in prehistoric and medieval times, and a niederadliges Gender called himself after his lying at the headwaters of the creek Hofgut Monzenbach. This settlement was abandoned in the course of time, as their inhabitants moved to the nearby Seelbach.

To use the valley as meadows, this one was drained in former times, and the Monzenbach been mutually moved to the edge of the valley; hence its present abrupt border between the districts of Oberscheld and Seelbach. Of the nearly 2 km long " manorial meadows in the Montzenbach " is linguistically today only a small piece at the bottom, " Speier mountain head," the so-called " Mr. Wiese ," as a field name. The statute labor on these " manorial meadows " had to do the inhabitants of Eiershausen, Hirzenhain, Wall Rock, Tringenstein, Oberdorf, Eisemroth and over valley at the beginning of the 19th century.

Environmental aspects

Above the Monzenbachtals are former pits where once Eisenstein was promoted, but also two extensive and expanding quarries, " Oberscheld " and " Monzenbach " where diabase is mined by open pit. A third large quarry with about 10 acres of expansion has for some years on the Monzenbach from reflowed, wooded and so far largely untouched Volpertsberg, geographically between the two existing quarries in planning. This project is firmly rejected and opposed by local environmental and citizens' initiatives because of its feared impact on landscape, landscape structure and the natural habitat. With the expected breakthrough in a few years the quarry Oberscheld, 800 m northeast of the Volpertsbergs located, through the apex of the Wicke grove this operation will break through into the upper Monzenbachtal. Only about 500 m south of the Volpertsberg affected the quarry Monzenbach the small river already large building complex in both its quality and its functionality. An additional quarry on the Volpertsberg would thus also drag the middle reaches of the stream affected.