Diepmannsbach
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| Water code | DE : 2736612 | |
| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Morsbach → Wupper → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | Near Remscheid - Lennep 51 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 5 ″ E |
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| Source height | 318 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | In Diepmannsbach in den Morsbach Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '37 " N , 7 ° 13' 56" E 51 ° 11 '37 " N , 7 ° 13' 56" E |
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| Mouth height | 256 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 62 m | |
| Bottom slope | 20 ‰ | |
| length | 3.1 km | |
| Big cities | Remscheid | |
The Diepmannsbach is an orographically left tributary of the Morsbach in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It has a length of 3.1 km.
location
The Diepmannsbach is a small river in Remscheid and rises in three sources between Lenneper local documents Kimmenau and bell near the train station Remscheid-Lennep. After it has been dammed in three ponds with a total of 27,000 m³ of storage capacity, called Rotzkotter lakes, it takes on the Rotzkotter Bach and the Anger Siefen from the left . Then it crosses under the federal highway 1 , takes the Wüstenhagener Bach (also called Überfelder Bach) from the left and is again dammed in several ponds. In the Remscheid location of the same name , the Diepmannsbach flows into the Morsbach , which is also known as the Endringhauser Bach in its upper reaches there .
The Diepmannsbach originally had different names: Dittmannsbach, Deichmannsbeck and Teichmannsbeek. The valley was also named differently: Rutzkotter Tal, Überfelder Tal, Endringhauser Bachtal and Walkbachtal.
The Diepmannsbach has a high water quality class I-II. Its headwaters located in 44.6640 ha large nature reserve Westerholt (code RS-006).
Industrial use
Like all suitable backwaters of the Morsbach, the Diepmannsbach was used to drive water engines. The early facilities included the mill on Rotzkotten mentioned in a document in 1692, the Buchholzmühle and Busenhammer mentioned in the same year and the Honsberger Kotten (documented since 1827).
From 1833 a woolen mill was built in the lower reaches of the Froweinsmühle site (occupied in 1692), which was sold in 1850 and converted into a carded yarn spinning mill. In 1851 a water turbine and a steam engine were installed instead of the water wheel. From 1887 on, the Elite bicycle factory moved in, which had to stop production in 1901 due to economic failure. In 1923 the factory was demolished and two factory buildings remained on the site, one of which is now used as a hiking home for the Sauerland Mountain Association (Wuppertal eV department). A salmiak factory was located at the mouth of the Diepmannsbach.
From 1880 the Bergische textile industrial family Wülfing near Lennep built the worsted spinning mill Johann Wülfing & Sohn above the source of the Diepmannsbach . To cover the factory's water requirements, a pumping station was built on the Rotzkotter Lakes to take this water. Since the calculated water requirement was nowhere near sufficient, the two existing Rotzkotter lakes were enlarged, a third reservoir was created and the previously wind- powered pump was replaced by steam power .
The Wülfing company acquired all the properties in the Diepmannsbachtal and the associated water rights by 1888. Further reservoirs in the course were enlarged or newly created, so that up to 45,000 m³ of service water was available. Another steam-powered pumping station with a capacity of 600 m³ was located at the bicycle factory. At the same time, the Diepmannsbach was used as a waste water drainage system for the worsted spinning mill and was heavily polluted. Settlement basins and sewage fields were in operation until the 1970s, and it was not until the 1990s that all wastewater was treated in the company's own sewage treatment plant. After the pumping station at the Rotzkotter Lakes was destroyed by a bomb during World War II, a new one was set up a little further down the stream. The worsted spinning mill was closed in 1998, until then it had taken 1,000 m³ a month from the Diepmannsbach.
Projected dam
In 1912 the Johann Wülfing & Sohn company planned a dam in the Diepmannsbachtal with a storage capacity of 160,000 to 200,000 m³. According to plans by the architect Arthur Schmidt, the approx. 120 m long dam was to be built in the area of the Busenhammerteich.
The plans were reported in the Lenneper Kreisblatt :
“The construction of a new dam is being prepared on the eastern border of our urban district. The company Wülfing und Sohn: (owner Hardt) zu Lennep commemorates building a dam of 200,000 cbm in the valley behind Wüstenhagen and Überfeld from south to north in order to obtain water for their large worsted yarn spinning mill. A house from the Buchholzmühle had to give way to the project. Extensive excavations have already been carried out on the mountain slope for the foundations of the barrier wall. The large, massive factory building at the exit of the Thales to Diepmannsbach, where the Bismarck bicycle factory was operated until 1900, is being demolished. The thick ashlar stones should be used in the construction of the barrier wall. "
Although the competent water association approved the construction of the dam, the plans met with rejection from experts. The reasons for abandoning the project are not known.
literature
- Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid . Volume 4: Leyerbach, Diepmannsbach, Mückenbach Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2004, ISBN 3-9809033-8-9 .