Mönchsbach (Wipper)

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Mönchsbach
Data
Water code DE : 273611176
location Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Wupper  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Marienheide
51 ° 4 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  E
Source height 362  m above sea level NN
muzzle in Marienheide in the Wupper Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '14 "  N , 7 ° 32' 16"  E 51 ° 5 '14 "  N , 7 ° 32' 16"  E
Mouth height 303.1  m above sea level NN
Height difference 58.9 m
Bottom slope 96 ‰
length 612 m
Communities Marienheide

The Mönchsbach is a half a kilometer long, southern and left tributary of the Wupper , which is called here in the upper reaches of the Wipper, near Marienheide .

geography

course

The Mönchsbach arises from three spring branches in a strip of forest in Marienheide. The main source load arises at a height of 362  m above sea level. NHN .

After the union of its three spring branches, the stream first flows in a northerly direction through a strip of forest in the corridor In der Schlenke and then disappears into the ground under the pipes. It then passes the embankment of the single-track Volmetalbahn and runs underground and parallel to the valley road northwards through the Kirchbrücke corridor .

He crosses the Convent Road and finally flows verdolt at an altitude of 303.1  m from the left in the contracting the from the East Wipper .

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Mönchsbach is drained into the North Sea via the Wupper and Rhine .

It borders

  • in the east to that of the Wipper tributary Ellbach
  • in the south to that of the Leppe , a tributary of the Agger
  • and in the southwest of the Mühlenbach , a tributary of the Leppe.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c flow Geographic Information System of the Wupperverbandes