Strunde

The re-excavated Umbach to previous Schnabelsmühle between the guest house and Paas Villa Zanders Zanders in the Maria - conditioning in Bergisch Gladbach

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The Strunde or Strunder Bach is a right tributary of the Rhine in North Rhine -Westphalia. The source is located in Bergisch Gladbach Strunde the district Herrenstrunden for which it is named-giving. The entrained by their water be discharged into the sewer system in the Cologne district Buchheim. Above ground it is visible to the bridging of the stream by the light rail line line 3 At the time of industrialization it was a major water and energy source for the region.

Geography

Strundequelle

The Strunde Springs - so it is generally handed down - a karst spring about 100 meters northeast of the Herrenstrundener parish church. The leaking water from the bottom can be seen on the basis of rising bubbles. Their average bed is about 50 liters per second, but may increase at peak hours at 830 l / s. But not only this source feeds the Strunde. Rather, it is further east to a large karst area, located between the towns of Eikamp (part of Odenthal ) and peak ( Kuerten ) extends. In this basin bubble at various points from individual sources, to different degrees tends towards the water depending on the amount of rainfall in small rivulets and streams the main source.

Course

The Strunde flows in an east-west direction to the Rhine. A special feature is the realized with a crossing structure crossing the septic Bach in Cologne Holweide represents ( stream crossing). The Strunderbach ended earlier in the Rheinuferauen without reaching the river itself. At the location of the stream recalls in Cologne -Mülheim ( Mülheim immediately south of the bridge ) Bachstraße where the brewery Greven (now guilds ) used the water of the Strunde.

Due to the straightening of the Rhine and the strong growth of the city of Bergisch Gladbach Strunder Bach was eventually piped and carried out underground. The piping starts just before the city of Bergisch Gladbach and is broken only in a few places. Also its way through the east of the Rhine Cologne takes the creek partially underground. This derivation of the stream is partly responsible for that after several heavy rain events in the years 2000 and 2001, large parts of the Bergisch Gladbach city center have been repeatedly flooded in the short term since the sewerage incurred rainfall could not absorb. From this developed extensive construction in the form of rain retention basins.

Originally Strunde of Herrenstrunden coming did not reach the Rhine, but seeped previously in Thielenbruch - a wetland. In the 6th century, the creek bed was artificially extended to the Rhine and drained the marshes there. The prolonged Strunde flows north of the former swamp area, which also artificial digestion brook, a tributary of the Strunde, in the south. The former drainage ditches were subsequently used by the farmers in dry to irrigate their fields and meadows. Some of these ditches and sluice gates are still preserved. Thus there is a close to the moated castle Isenburg, another quite near the Wichheimer mill. The adjacent street Am Flutgraben handed notably the memory of it. The Flutgraben at the Wichheimer mill was used in the sixties in the winter to make the adjacent meadow, a skating track, now stands on that site the Holweider comprehensive school at the Castle Meadow road.

Numerous hollow willows on the banks of Strunde, of which also the naming of the Cologne district Holweide derived. Braided venison was used to stabilize the bank walls, in places, the venison is still to be seen. In order to obtain a large height difference to drive additional mills that Strunde was led turnpike over a small aqueduct over the lazy creek near the property. The Good turnpike is located near the Schlagbaumer path and was formerly the border station between the free city of Cologne and the county mountain.

At the moment (summer 2012) the Strunde flows with steep gradients in the digester stream. Through this connection channel causes a small peninsula. In the walls of the bank Strunde rare crayfish caves have been dug in hidden places. If the aqueduct is completed ( see bridge building in the background of the image ), to flow off again in a separate drains Strunde.

In the upper reaches of the Faulbach named Flehbach. He drove to the bay mill on mouse path and Flehbachmühle in Refrath. Also living in the digester stream crayfish. When the KVB the Faulbach dry laid temporarily during construction of its switchboard in Merheim, are said to have rescued the survival of protected species in their bathtubs Merheimer residents.

The in the 19 th century masonry of brick aqueduct had been bricked up arch construction, he replaced the medieval predecessor of wood. The late seventies, this historic landmark has been renovated by a concrete bridge. Near this bridge was at this time one last habitat of the former marsh fauna. Today there is the sports ground of the S. C. Holweide 1968 E.V. and allotments arose. Since 1906, the Strunde of Cologne Buchheim is channeled to the Rhine in a tunnel. Today there are no intentions and no way to open the Strunde in the field Mülheim again. However, it should be traced on a green link patency Strunde. A building block for this represents the green link from the Rhine promenade to the Wiener space

Industrial use

The mills, some 36 were in operation simultaneously, and the water itself ensured economic prosperity in Bergisch Gladbach and carried especially the paper industry ( see M- real Zanders ), has now become a major yet for this city industry. At the eastern end of the village of Bergisch Gladbach shows the Paper Museum Old Dombach how you made ​​earlier paper on the Strunde. In Holweider suburb Schweinheim existed until the early 1980s, a wool dyeing, which guided their effluent into the Strunde. Depending on the order situation then changed the color of the creek. The yield was 1.189 m³ / s at a height difference of 94 m to the mouth ( Strundequelle about 140 m above sea level, estuary about 46 m above sea level).

The mills on the Strunde

Extensively is the literature on the mills on the Strunde. No one can say exactly how many there have been in total. In 1846 there were 51 mills that were enumerated. Completely preserved today is only the Iddelsfelder mill.