Rüpingsbach

Grotenbach / Rüpingsbach
The Rüpingsbach in Barop before renaturation
Data
Water code	DE : 277216
location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Emscher  → Rhine  → North Sea
source	In Witten 51 ° 27 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 55 ″  E
Source height	102  m above sea level NHN
muzzle	In Schönau in the Emscher coordinates: 51 ° 29 '36 "  N , 7 ° 26' 18"  E 51 ° 29 '36 "  N , 7 ° 26' 18"  E
Mouth height	77  m above sea level NHN
Height difference	25 m
Bottom slope	3.1 ‰
length	8 kilometers
Catchment area	36.718 km²
Big cities	Dortmund
First measures for the renaturation of the Rüpingsbach
Renatured Rüpingsbach in the area of ​​the nature reserve An der Panne

The Rüpingsbach and its most important tributary, the Grotenbach, form a river in the south of Dortmund and together have a length of eight kilometers.

Grotenbach

The historical source of the Grotenbach is located in today's Witten district of Annen in Bonnermannsfeld. A trickle still flows there today along the path of the same name, but today the Grotenbach begins a few hundred meters further on at the pipe outlet of the former Annen cast steelworks . While still in Annen, he recorded the holy brook and the stone brook . While the first dried up due to mountain depressions, the Steinbach rises to this day in Herrenholz in the Ardey, but disappears in the canal south of Annen.

From Annen, the Grotenbach then crosses Rüdinghausen and the Dortmund districts of Persebeck and Großholthausen . Here the Kruckeler Bach flows into the Grotenbach, which in turn rises in the Schnee district of Witten .

Holthauser Bach

A little further north, Grotenbach and Kirchhörder Bach unite . From here on, the brook used to have other names. It was called Holthauser Bach around 1919 and Mühlenbach in the lower reaches .

Rüpingsbach

Today the Rüpingsbach begins here and continues its way through Barop to Schönau , where it flows into the Emscher .

The Rüpingsbach is part of the Emscher system and was previously used for wastewater disposal. The stream flowed canalized in a concrete bed. With the conversion of the Emscher system by the Emschergenossenschaft , the water body was renatured.

Along the Rüpingsbach, a riverside path was set up in the course of the renaturation at the level of the An der Panne nature reserve , which leads along, among other things, the former Rüpingsmühle and the remains of the embankment of the Henriette colliery to the Baroper train station . Signs point out these early witnesses of industrialization in the south of Dortmund.

Tributaries

In the following, the tributaries of the Rüpingsbach are named in the order from the source to the mouth. The orographic location, the mouth position with indication of the stationing kilometer, the length, the size of the catchment area, the mouth height and the river code number are given (note: a space has been inserted for better sortability).

Surname	location	Length [km]	Catchment area [km²]	Mouth height [m above sea level. NHN]	DGKZ
Salinger Bach	Left			96
Höfelbach	Left	3.5		93	27721612
Kruckeler Bach	right	3.6		90	2772164
Kirchhörder Bach	right	5.2	7,640	87	2772162
Baroper Bach	Left			80	277216 ??
Breddegraben	Left	1.4		80	2772166
Rahmkebach	Left	1.6		80	27721692

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
3. ↑ http: //www.rüpingsbach-weg-dortmund.de