Wiebach

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The Wiebach is a tributary of the river Wupper and opens today - dammed up by the Wiebach - blocking system - in the Wuppertal dam.

It rises a few meters northeast of the village Ispingrade. It then flows mostly on through a forest and ends finally after almost two kilometers into the Wupper.

Named after the small stream Wiebachtal was a popular hiking and excursion area since the late 19th century and was arrested on many postcards. Well-known and famous the sky meadow and the Wiebachmühle that were visited by the local recreation seekers often were. There was also a copper mine, the Carolina pit.

On the southern side ran along the stream of the river Wupper to the confluence of the Landwehr Siepen a line of Bergisch Landwehr, which separated the bergische Office Hückeswagen of the acquired until 1305 by the Bergisch Count Radevormwalder area. By then started construction of the new Landwehr line in the northern Radevormwald this now inner Landwehr was probably abandoned.

The saga of the Bergisch Moonstone has its origins in Wiebachtal. Immediately at the place where the Wiebach einmündete earlier in the Wupper, lay three boulders. Giants should have this used for crossing the river. After commissioning or completion of the dam in 1989, the area was flooded, before a stone was saved, which is now exhibited in the Radevormwalder Froweinpark.

Near the Wiebachtals was also a SGV home. This was originally a house of nature lovers, a socialist group that has emerged from the labor movement out. 1933, the house was completely demolished by the Nazis. After the Second World War it was taken over by Sauerland Mountain Club. A dispute over the return to nature friends ended inconclusively.