Calenberger Siefen

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Calenberger Siefen
Data
location Bergische plateaus

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Dürschbach  → Sülz  → Agger  → Sieg  → Rhine  → North Sea
source at Jähhardt
51 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 21 ″  E
Source height 217  m above sea level NHN
muzzle at Dürscheider Hütte in the Dürschbach Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '2 "  N , 7 ° 13' 5"  E 51 ° 0 '2 "  N , 7 ° 13' 5"  E
Mouth height 166  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 51 m
Bottom slope 94 ‰
length 541 m
Communities Kürten

The Calenberger Siefen is a river between Jähhardt and Dürscheider Hütte in the municipality of Kürten . It is a good 541 m long, eastern and orographically left tributary of the Dürschbach .

geography

course

The Calenberger Siefen rises in a meadow near Jähhardt at an altitude of 217  m above sea level. NHN and then flows west. After flowing down the slope through a wooded area, it turns south just before the Dürscheider hut to flow from the left into the Dürschbach at the sewage treatment plant there. The stream has no named backwaters.

Forest and agricultural areas dominate the floodplain of the brook.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Calenberger Siefen lies in the Bärbroicher Höhe and is drained through it via the Dürschbach, Sülz , Agger , Sieg and the Rhine to the North Sea.

The catchment area in the area of ​​the headwaters is dominated by arable land, otherwise the catchment area is mostly forested.

Geologically, the catchment area is shaped by clay , silt and sand rocks from the Middle Devonian.

history

A part of the old Kurfürstenweg runs parallel to the Calenberger Siefen as a ravine . The path was used until the middle of the 19th century to transport charcoal to the Dürscheider Hütte ironworks. Historically, it is an old military path that crossed the Dürschtal at this point. It is also called the Little Heerweg and ran from Bensberg to Meinerzhagen.

Several old road and boundary stones are still preserved. These are labeled CTC 1755 . CTC stands for Carl Theodor Churfürst , Duke Karl Theodor von Jülich-Berg .

Natural monument

At the Calenberger Siefen north of the Dürscheider Hütte is an abandoned stone quarry from the Devonian. It is protected as a natural monument.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ewald Glässer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 122/123 Cologne / Aachen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1978. →  Online map (PDF; 8.7 MB)
  2. ↑ a b ELWAS specialist information system, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia ( notes )
  3. ↑ Own measurement TIM Online
  4. ↑ a b c Hohlweg at the Dürscheiderhütte | Object view. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Leitbild Kürten 2020. Cultural and historical evidence in the municipality of Kürten.