Rutenbeck (Wupper)

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The Rod Beck ( common spelling Ruth Beck) is a 2.358 km long stream and a left tributary of the river Wupper in Wuppertal Cronenberg district. For the name of the watercourse tautology rods Becker Bach is also frequently used. (Beck is the Low German word for stream ). He is one of the larger streams of the state forest castle wood.

Etymology

The etymological origin is not fully understood. After an interpretation of the name comes from " tail " corresponding hash ( perennial plant, Latin ruta ). According to another interpretation " tail " comes from the Middle High German word " ruzen " ( = noise).

Topography

The creek rises to around 300 meters sea level west of the hamlet Cronenberger Küllenhahn with the old half-timbered shaft Upper Rod Beck. He initially flows west, gets after about 130 meters inlet of a 85 meter long nameless waters and turns in a northwesterly direction now. 300 meters of creek (also called " Cronenberger Samba" ) is interrupted by an old railway line of the castle wooden track - the path is passed under piped and the stream continues in a northerly direction.

Some 670 meters from source receives the rod from left pelvic inlet of the 428 -meter-long honey Taler stream and take in a westerly direction. After another 300 meters, the route of the main road is reached 418, from shortly before the State Highway 70 branches off and leads through the Kiesbergtunnel after Elberfeld district Arrenberg. The national road 418, which passes under the rod Beck, soon brings in the castle wooden tunnel to Küllenhahn to the southern hills.

The Rod Beck runs along the country road 418 through a valley until after approximately 2.1 kilometers to the source of the Valley of the Wupper is reached. This is still the country road 74 leading to Solingen on Kohlfurth, crosses under. Just beyond the brook receives from the left tributary of the 513 meter long Kleinemeer Siepen and flows near the village of Lower Rod Beck, who is known as Rod Beck, in about 150 meters sea level in the Wupper.

Here, a few meters downstream is in the east of the factory wastewater treatment plant Rod Beck, who has long been run by Bayer AG alone. First, it has been considered by the management to transfer them all over the Wupperverband, which is sponsored by the city of Wuppertal. The wastewater treatment plant Rods Beck is just opposite on the other side of the river, where the Wupperverband operates the wastewater treatment plant Buchhofen. Now the WWTP Rods Beck of Bayer HealthCare is operated jointly with the Wupperverband.

History

The Hofschaften Upper Rod Beck and Lower Rod Beck come from the period around 1700 and are on the 1715 map created Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies as " Rutenbec " mentioned. They go back to a good which was first mentioned in 1513.