Leyerbach
| Leyerbach | ||
 The well-shaped brook along the Ascheweg in Ronsdorf |
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| Water code | DE : 273662 | |
| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Morsbach → Wupper → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | In Wuppertal - Ronsdorf 51 ° 13 ′ 54 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 58 ″ E |
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| Source height | 287 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | In Remscheid - Haddenbach in den Morsbach Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '55 " N , 7 ° 11' 38" E 51 ° 11 '55 " N , 7 ° 11' 38" E |
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| Mouth height | 192 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 95 m | |
| Bottom slope | 17 ‰ | |
| length | 5.6 km | |
| Catchment area | 11.135 km² | |
| Big cities | Wuppertal , Remscheid | |
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Tributaries and hydraulic structures
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The Leyerbach is a body of water that rises in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf and flows into the Morsbach at Remscheid - Haddenbach . The Leyerbach does not have a single spring, but is fed by several spring pots, some of which are only active after appropriate rainfall.
A restaurant near the springs bears the misleading name Zur Morsbachquelle. The piping of the stream in the upper reaches (after it had previously fed some small ponds) has now been reversed in the Ascheweg / Am Stadtbahnhof area, so that it runs here as a 'city stream' and provides a certain flair.
In the upper reaches the name Ronsdorfer Bach was also mentioned, from the confluence with the Lüttringhauser Bach at the Leyermühle or Halbacher Mühle near Halbach it is called Leyerbach, sometimes also as Halbacher Bach .
Industrial importance
There are many historic hammer mills and cottages along the course of the stream, which testify to the formerly important industrial function of the Leyerbach. Around 1800, eleven hammer mills and nine grinding heads were still in operation, including the Wüsterhammer, which was demolished because of the creation of a rain basin. There were numerous refining steel hammers between Haddenbach and Halbach , among them in the “Hormcke”, at the “Hormckebech” (Haddenbach) and below the Goldenberg.
The last one in operation was the Leyerhammer , also called "Stursbergs Hammer" and " Hilbertshammer " after its owners , which is occasionally only used by the Grimm steelworks for training purposes. Every now and then there are blacksmithing demonstrations after the water has been dammed up in the hammer pond for a few days. Together with the companies in Morsbach , Eschbach and Lobach , the hammer mills formed a center of industry in the Bergisches Land .
Former Wüsterhammer
Stursberg's hammer weir
Stursberg's hammer Kotten
Bed of the Leyerbach at the Leyermühle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b German basic map 1: 5000
- ↑ a b river basin geographic information system of Wupperverbandes
- ^ A b Siegfried Horstmann: Das Bergisches Land und seine Lieder, 1st part: Das Morsbachtal und seine Lieder , Verlag S. Horstmann, Remscheid, 1975, p. 11