Mitteleschbach

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Mitteleschbach with restaurant

Mitteleschbach is a district in the Moitzfeld district of Bergisch Gladbach . It is located between Obereschbach and Untereschbach on the former federal highway 55 , which was replaced by federal highway 4 between Refrath and Overath in the 1970s .

history

As a result of early modern settlement expansion, the settlement of Eschbach, originally founded in the High Middle Ages , divided into Obereschbach, Mitteleschbach and Untereschbach . The name of the settlement refers to the Eschbach flowing through Mitteleschbach , which has its headwaters further northeast in the vicinity of the White pit . The determinant Esch goes back etymologically to the Old High German asch and means the tree species ash .

Mining

To the north-east of Obereschbach, the site of the Weiß mine extends with several clarification ponds that extend to the south-west as far as the road that leads to Untereschbach. On the night of August 15-16, 1932, the dam of the lower clarification pond broke. The building yard of the city of Bergisch Gladbach is located here today. A devastating catastrophe made its way through the Eschbachtal at midnight. A terrible rumble "like thunder" accompanied the mud masses on their way down the valley. Buildings were damaged or destroyed. Cows, pigs, chickens and other domestic animals suffocated in the flood of mud. Valuable arable and meadow land was made unusable for decades, so that the dire consequences are still visible today.

literature

  • Kurt Kluxen : History of Bensberg , Paderborn 1976
  • Herbert Stahl : Moitzfeld. Through life, through the year "om Platz" , Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 56, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 3-932326-56-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Volume 3, and by the Bergisch Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 362, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  2. ^ Herbert Stahl: The dam break on August 16, 1932. In: Gerhard Geurts , Herbert Ommer , Herbert Stahl: Das Erbe des Erzes. Volume 1: The White Pit. Friends of the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Crafts and Trades, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-00-011243-X , p. 75 ff.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 30.7 ″  E