Clump jump
| Clump jump | ||
 The mouth of the Klusensprung in the Wupper (bottom right) |
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| Data | ||
| location | Wuppertal , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Wupper → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | In Wuppertal- Elberfeld | |
| muzzle | In Wuppertal- Elberfeld coordinates: 51 ° 15 '17 " N , 7 ° 9' 21" E 51 ° 15 '17 " N , 7 ° 9' 21" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 155 m above sea level NN
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The Klusensprung is a tributary of the Wupper in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld , locality Kluse .
Location and description
The Klusensprung flows completely piped and only carries water when there is very heavy rainfall. Its masonry mouth is near the old Elberfeld train station halfway up the around 15 meter high retaining wall that supports the route of the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway across from the deeper flowing Wupper and the city area with the Wuppertal theater and the multiplex cinema .
A sign with the name of the body of water is attached to the retaining wall. A roughly ten meter long tunnel is located behind the approximately one meter large mouth hole.
From maps from the first third of the 19th century it can be seen that the Klusensprung was a natural surface watercourse until the construction of the railway line, the railway operating area on Dessauer Straße and the residential development in the local area. In 1863 it was mentioned in a description of the town that the Klusensprung was built over by the railway line.
Web links
- Image of the clump jump (PDF; 1.6 MB) in a document (p. 265) of the responsible Wupper Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of a visit to the geocache
- ↑ The Klusensprung on Geocaching.com
- ↑ Wilhelm Langewiesche (ed.) In connection with C. Siebel, C. Coutelle , CR Hötte, C. Pöls: Elberfeld and Barmen - description and history of this twin town of the Wupperthals together with a description of their industry, an overview of the Bergisch regional history ; Barmen; 1863