Mühlenbach (Ruhr)

Creek in a nature reserve Mühlenbachtal

The Mill Stream is a 4.844 km long, orographic left tributary of the Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalian Arnsberg. The creek originates on the eastern slope of the Henssenberg south of Rumbeck at an altitude of 390 m above sea level. NN and flows in a northerly direction at 195 m above sea level. NN in the Ruhr.

The creek overcomes on his way a height difference of 195 m, which corresponds to a barrel length of 4.844 kilometers an average bed slope of 40.3 ‰. The creek drains across the Ruhr and the Rhine to the North Sea.

Nature and Environment

Large parts of the stream in the headwaters lie in the nature reserve Mühlenbachtal and in the mouth region in a nature reserve Ruhr lowlands.