Leiersmühle compensatory pond
The Leiersmühle compensatory pond , today the Leiersmühle reservoir , was a damming up of the Wupper near the Leiersmühle district of Wipperfürth .
The compensation pond was built as the fourth dam of the Wupper by the Wupper-Talsperren-Genossenschaft , the legal predecessor of the Wupperverband , above the confluence of the Hönnige from March 1913 to December 1914. It initially had a storage capacity of 50,000 m³ and was used to store water overnight, which was then evenly drained off during the day for the operation of water engines located downstream .
In 1955, due to an expansion, the storage capacity was 100,000 m³ with a storage height of 2.73 m. The damming took place through an elongated earth dam , in the middle of which a weir with an underweight flap with a height of 1 m and a length of 20 m was embedded as a closure. In the event of overflow at higher water levels, the flap lowered automatically and raised itself again automatically after the overflow. In times of low and medium water, however, the water ran through an upper ditch to the B. Meyer hydropower plant .
In the 1970s, the compensatory pond lost its function and has since then partially silted up. Today, the rest of the former reservoir forms the western end of the approximately 157 hectare nature reserve Wupper and Wipper near Wipperfürth , established in 1985 (identification: GM-008, CDDA code: 329732). It offers many rare animal species, including the colorful kingfisher , a valuable resting habitat .
Web links
- Nature reserve “Equalizing pond Leiersmühle” (GM-008) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Anonymous: “ 25 Years of the Wupper Association 1930–1955 ”, Verlag for German Economic Biographies Heinz Flieger, Düsseldorf, 1955
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 6.4 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 11.8" E