Faulbach (Rhine)

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Faulbach
The Faulbach shortly after the confluence of Flehbach and Bruchbach.

The Faulbach shortly after the confluence of Flehbach and Bruchbach.

Data
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system Rhine
source Continuation of the Bruchbach and Flehbach
50 ° 57 ′ 6 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 6 ″  E
muzzle In Cologne-Mülheim in the Rhine Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 3 ″  E 50 ° 58 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 3 ″  E

The Faulbach is a section of stream in Cologne after the confluence of the Flehbach and Bruchbach at the junction of the BAB 4 near the tram depot of the Cologne transport company in Cologne-Merheim .

Naming

The Faulbach owes its name to the sluggish or slow and therefore "lazy" flow speed of the water. Another explanation says that its water has a brackish or brittle and therefore “rotten” quality.

history

The Faulbach used to feed the formerly fish-rich Merheimer Bruch, which has now dried up because a deeper bed was dug for the creek because of its ravages during floods. As a result, it was directed in Cologne-Holweide on the so-called Erk near the Schlagbaum estate under the Strunde and led partially canalised north of the Mülheimer bridge into the Rhine. The height difference at the intersection with the Strunde is 1–2 meters.

  • Confluence of the Flehbach (front) and Bruchbach (right). In the further course the stream is called Faulbach

  • The deeply cut Faulbach has only a slight gradient to the Rhine.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Bendel : Heimatbuch des Landkreises Mülheim am Rhein , 2nd and 3rd edition, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 4f.

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