Rumbach (Ruhr)

The Rumbach in Essen- Pigtails

The Rumbach ( in the upper course: Bach fame ) is about 7.4 km long right tributary of the Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He is the last major tributary before the Ruhr 12.02 kilometers further flows into the Rhine. The Rumbach has been artificially moved into the ground on the last kilometers through the Mülheim downtown.

Etymology

On Essen territory the Rumbach fame Bach writes. From the confluence with the Steinbach but without h, ie Rumbach. The City Archives Mülheim has the following declaration: " In case of snow melt and heavy rain events Rumbach put the main roads under water. He rumbled and so got its name. "

Course

The Rumbach arises as Bach fame in Essen's Pigtails and ends in Mülheim in the Ruhr. On Essen territory and also in the Mülheim district Holthausen the stream flows in its natural above-ground bed. Until the 19th century the river was also in the city center today above ground, what is often provided in the lower reaches of flooding. As part of the relocation of the town center from the church hill in the northern lowlands of Rumbach was on its way through the city completely channeled and laid in the ground. Already from the fulling mill road flows the stream underground. Once culminated Rumbach in a channel ( faBricks channel) parallel to the Ruhr, which is filled today and the Ruhrstraße forms. Here he still flowed about 150 meters and then culminated in the Ruhr. Mid-20th century, the course was moved directly to the Ruhr. His mouth has Rumbach today below the planned Ruhrbania promenade opposite the Stadthalle Mülheim.

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the Rumbachs include ( bach downward considered ): Steinbach, Gothenburg Bach, Schlippenbach.

Importance

The Rumbach had economic importance, as evidenced by numerous mills which are in Mülheim of the oldest industrial enterprises especially in the 19th century. They were in the Middle Ages and early modern times predominantly agricultural, later used also for commercial purposes. Mills before the 19th century were usually water mills that were the economic foundation of the city in this period. Only then came the first windmills in the context of the expanding industrialization and steam-powered mills. Water mills seem to have been driven in Mülheim only with under - and overshot water wheels.

Most mills in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr lay on Rumbach. The statistics from 1831/33 has a total of 17 mills in Mülheim City area in 1849 there were already 23 in 1858 then 24 mills. End of the 19th century until the First World War began a mill dying and only stopped in the aftermath few mills their operations going. The mill of the farm Dümpel was already mentioned in 1289, when the operators have transferred their income to the monastery Saarn. By 1875 at the present site was emperor of the mill pond of the 1385 first mentioned Altenhofmühle. For the same year, the fulling mill, which ceased operation in 1934 came from. In the mill buildings, a tourist restaurant was set up on the mill pond could drive small boats. The mill pond was filled in 1939. It now houses a restaurant. Approximately at the junction Essen Road / East Street was until the mid-20th century, the Motenhofmühle. Other mills on Rumbach were originally from the 15th century Baten and Neumühlestrasse in Holthausen and dating from the 18th century mill in the value, at the place now houses about the parking garage of the Kaufhof department store. As the last in 1498, first documented Wetzmühle was (also Wetzel mill) on Rumbach in 1954, the mill operation. Today it offers to the surviving residential and farm buildings, and the millpond a picturesque sight.

Today, the upper reaches of the Rumbachtals has significant importance as approximately 73 -acre conservation area Rumbachtal, Gothenburg Bach, Schlippenbach because here show large portions of the streams a more natural course. Protect value here are sections of forest with beech stocks and some biotopes and thus endangered animal and plant species.