Amtmannscherfer Siefen

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Amtmannscherfer Siefen
Data
Water code DE : 2736866
location Bergische plateaus

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Scherfbach  → Dhünn  → Wupper  → Rhine  → North Sea
source northwest of Oberodenthal - streets
51 ° 1 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 29 ″  E
Source height approx.  160  m above sea level NN
muzzle at Amtmannscherf in the Scherfbach coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 19 ″  E 51 ° 1 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 19 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  105  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 55 m
Bottom slope approx. 50 ‰
length 1.1 km
Catchment area 32.9 ha
Outflow
A Eo : 32.9 ha
at the mouth
MNQ
MQ
Mq
0.36 l / s
5.15 l / s
15.7 l / (s km²)

The Amtmannscherfer Siefen is a good one kilometer long, southern and orographically left tributary of the Scherfbach and belongs to the river system of the Dhünn , a tributary of the Wupper .

geography

course

The Amtmannscherfer Siefen rises at a height of 160  m above sea level. NHN in a coniferous forest about four hundred meters northwest of the Oberodenthaler residential area streets .

The stream flows first in a northerly and then north-northeast direction through a wooded kerb valley . It now leaves the forest and then runs parallel to the Käsbach, which runs only about thirty meters further east, in an almost northerly direction through grassland.

It now reaches the Amtmannscherf estate , flows along its eastern side and finally flows from the left into the Scherfbach, which is approaching from the northwest, at a height of about 105  m .

Its mouth is about a hundred meters below the mouth of the Käsbach on the same side and about two hundred meters above the confluence of the Hohlensberger Siefen on the other side of the Scherfbach.

Catchment area

The catchment area , which covers a good one square kilometer, lies in the natural area of ​​the Bechen plateau and is drained into the North Sea via the Scherfbach, Dhünn, Wupper and Rhine rivers.

It will

  • in the west by the Scherfbach tributary Käsbach
  • in the south and east by the Hambach , which is also a tributary of the Scherfbach

limited.

In the catchment area, z. Partly chalky clay , silt and sandstones of the Givet stage of the Middle Devonian were shaped. Of soil types clayey and silty dominate pseudogley brown soils with partly high usable field capacity .

Most of the area is forested in the south-east, while fields and meadows alternate in the north and west.

The only settlement is today as riding used living space bailiff Scherf .

Scherfbach river system

Nature reserve

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Paffen , Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 7.1 MB)
  2. a b c d River Area Geoinformation System of the Wupper Association (FluGGS Wupper)
  3. Modeled discharge values according to the specialist information system ELWAS, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection NRW ( notes )
  4. Specialized information system ELWAS, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection NRW ( information )