Dickelsbach

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Dickelsbach
Bridge over the Dickelsbach in the Wanheimerorter Rehwiesen, around or before 1955

Bridge over the Dickelsbach in the Wanheimerorter Rehwiesen, around or before 1955

Data
Water code EN : 2758
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Rhine  → North Sea
source In Ratingen - Hösel
51 ° 19 ′ 57 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 53 ″  E
Source height 140  m above sea level NN
muzzle At Duisburg- Hochfeld in the Rhine Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '27 "  N , 6 ° 45' 3"  E 51 ° 24 '27 "  N , 6 ° 45' 3"  E
Mouth height 28  m above sea level NN
Height difference 112 m
Bottom slope 5.1 ‰
length 21.9 km
Catchment area 77.107 km²

The Dickelsbach is a flowing water almost 22 km long , which flows into the Lower Rhine in the south of Duisburg .

course

The 21.88 km long river rises in the Ratingen - Höseler Grünpark Fernholz in the silicate foothills of the Bergisches Land and takes its course via Lintorf , Duisburg-Süd and flows into the Rhine at Duisburg- Hochfeld .

On its way from the source to the mouth , its structure changes very frequently. It runs both through indigenous forest areas in an almost natural river bed and as a deeply straightened and not very dynamic water body on the edge of settlement.

Up until the great breakthrough of the Rhine near Essenberg in the 10th century and the subsequent slow silting up of the Rhine bed in front of Duisburg's old town, the river flowed into the Rhine west of the city.

Then the Dickelsbach used the old arm of the Rhine as a drainage bed and flowed into the Ruhr. On the Corputius map of 1566, it is the only waterway that passes Duisburg; it leads to the southern city wall and also fed the moat. The Beekstraße, which still exists today, was the most elegant street in Duisburg at the time, and led from the Salvatorkirche to what was then "Beek". At that time the Rhine and Ruhr ran several kilometers away from Duisburg.

After the construction of today's Duisburg port , the Dickelsbach lost its importance for Duisburg, and it was later artificially led far south of the center of Duisburg, partly piped, to the closer Rhine.

A natural redesign was carried out in a section near Duisburg. However, there has been increasing siltation.

Surname

In the Middle Ages, the Dickelsbach was referred to in official documents as "Beek", "Beeck" or "Beick", which at the time only meant "Bach". Its current name probably only developed around 1800 and was derived from the small summer dike ( Dickel : small dike) that accompanied its lower course . This dike protected the area in front of Duisburg's old town from flooding.

  • Floods and flooded ...

  • ... Rehwiesen on February 17, 1962

  • Helpensteinmühle in Ratingen-Lintorf

literature

Rudi Steingen: The Dickelsbach - From its course, its name and its history . In: Verein Lintorfer heimatfreunde (ed.): Die Quecke . No. 47 , December 1977, p. 21–26 ( lintorf-die-quecke.de [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Dickelsbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rudi Steingen: The Dickelsbach - From its course, its name and its history . In: Verein Lintorfer heimatfreunde (ed.): Die Quecke . No. 47 , December 1977, p. 21–26 ( lintorf-die-quecke.de [PDF]).