Merzbach

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Merzbach
Course of Inde, Wurm and Merzbach

Course of Inde, Wurm and Merzbach

Data
Water code DE : 282534
location Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Rur  → Maas  → Hollands Diep  → North Sea
River basin district Meuse
source east of Würselen
50 ° 48 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 35 ″  E
Source height 209  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Linnich in the Rur coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 17 ″  E 50 ° 59 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 17 ″  E
Mouth height 58  m above sea level NN
Height difference 151 m
Bottom slope 5.3 ‰
length 28.4 km
Catchment area 106.282 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
 160.06 l / s
528.26 l / s
Left tributaries Hoengener Fliess
Medium-sized cities Eschweiler , Alsdorf , Jülich
Small towns Linnich
Communities Aldenhoven
Crossing the Linnich mill pond

Crossing the Linnich mill pond

The Merzbach is a left tributary of the Rur in the western Rhineland . It has a length of 28 km and a catchment area of 105.8 km².

geography

course

The Merzbach rises at Gut Klösterchen ( Würselen ) near Propsteier Forest ( Eschweiler ) and forms its western boundary. It flows past Gut Merzbrück (Eschweiler) and crosses St. Jöris and Kinzweiler . Because of the future opencast mine , the stream was diverted and now flows past Warden . Before that it flowed through the towns of Lürken , Laurenzberg and Obermerz , which were excavated in the 1980s . It then flows along the towns of Niedermerz , Aldenhoven , Engelsdorf , Merzenhausen , Welz and Linnich . Here the stream crosses the Linnich mill pond and flows into the Rur at the bridge of the B 57 . The Hoengener Fließ also flows into the Merzbach near Koslar .

Tributaries

  • Grubenrandbach ( right ), 1.4 km
  • Wardener Bach ( left ), 2.1 km
  • Schlangengraben ( right ), 3.9 km
  • Hoengener Fliess ( left ), 9.4 km
  • Freialdenhovener Fließ ( left ), 9.6 km
  • Ederener Fließ ( left ), 2.0 km

history

The name is of Germanic origin.

In December 1905, a Roman complex was found at Merzbach near Röhe (Eschweiler) on an area of ​​20 m × 5 m with hand millstones, a mortar and shards of Terra Sigillata and Terra Nigra .

The Merzbach marks the municipal boundary between Eschweiler and Würselen-Broichweiden .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ↑ ELWAS card