Rothenbach (Rur)

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Rothenbach
upper course: Helpensteiner Bach
Dutch name: Rode Beek
Rothenbach at the Gitstapper mill

Rothenbach at the Gitstapper mill

Data
Water code EN : 28298
location Lower Rhine lowlands

Germany

Netherlands

River system Rhine
Drain over Rur  → Maas  → Hollands Diep  → North Sea
River basin district Meuse
source of the Helpensteiner Bach on Friedrich-List - Allee in Wegberg - Wildenrath near the Siemens test center
51 ° 8 ′ 55 ″  N , 6 ° 9 ′ 47 ″  E
Source height 55  m above sea level NN
muzzle in the Rur in Vlodrop Netherlands Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 49 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 11"  E 51 ° 7 ′ 49 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 11"  E
Mouth height approx.  28  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 27 m
Bottom slope approx. 1.7 ‰
length 16 km  with Helpensteiner Bach
approx. 9.9 km without Helpensteiner Bach
Catchment area 26.179 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
 99.33 l / s
175.39 l / s

The Rothenbach is a brook over 14 kilometers long in the district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the Dutch province of Limburg , which flows into the Rur from the right in the village of Vlodrop in the municipality of Roerdalen . Its upper course is the Helpensteiner Bach . His Dutch name is Rode Beek .

History and etymology

Rothenbach - from Dalheimer Mühle border waters (left D, right NL)

The Rothenbach is on a section of the border river between Germany and the Netherlands . The course of the border was determined at the Congress of Vienna . It says:

"... the former dominion of Dalenbrook, east of the city of Roermond , with the villages of Melick , Herkenbosch and Vlodrop of the former Jülich office of Wassenberg are being relocated to Holland ."

The Rothenbach was declared the natural border from Effeld to Dalheimer Mühle . At the Dalheimer Klostermühle the boundary stone 376 was set as a boundary point .

The Helpensteiner Bach is named after the Lords of Helpenstein; they owned a castle in Dalheim-Rödgen and operated a water mill at the Helpenstein pond .

geography

course

Helpensteiner Bach

The Rothenbach rises as Helpensteiner Bach from a source at 84  m above sea level. NN in Wegberg - Wildenrath an der Friedrich-List - Allee near the Siemens test center and then runs first in a northerly direction. On today's Helpensteinstrasse, he fed on the Helpenstein pond, which is now largely silted up ; in the 14th or 15th century, the Lords of Arsbeck built the Helpensteiner mill on this site . Then it flows through the Rödgener Weiher , also known as the Rakyweiher , near Dalheim-Rödgen , where its water drove the Rödgener Mühle via an overshot mill wheel until 1899 . Its further course leads in a westerly direction through a wooded area and finally into the mill pond of the listed Dalheimer Mühle, which also serves as a rainwater retention basin . The building work required for this was initiated and carried out by the German authorities. From the Dalheimer Mühle, the Helpensteiner Bach flows on as Rothenbach and border waters.

Rothenbach

Border waters Rothenbach - Gitstapper Mühle (left D, right NL)

The Rothenbach is the border water between Germany and the Netherlands on the route from the Dalheimer Mühle to the Effelder Waldsee. At the beginning, the Dutch authorities operate a sand trap . Both construction measures, rain retention basin and sand trap near the Dalheimer Mühle, were carried out in coordination with the responsible authorities in both countries. The course of the stream leads from here in a westerly direction past the Dutch town of Rothenbach to Vlodrop , where it feeds the Gitstapper mill . Because the Rothenbach meanders and constantly changes its bed, there are always slight changes in the area at this “living border”; she's walking in a corridor here . From the Effelder Waldsee, the Rothenbach flows over into Dutch territory and flows into Vlodrop at 28  m above sea level. NN from the right and as its northernmost tributary Rode Beek into the Rur .

Tributaries

  • Krebsbach ( right ), 0.9 km

Jurisdiction and entertainment

Three authorities are responsible for the care and maintenance of the waters of Helpensteiner Bach and Rothenbach :

  • Helpensteiner Bach , from the source to the Dalheimer Mühle: Stadt Wegberg.
  • Rothenbach - German side , from the Dalheimer Mühle to the Effelder Waldsee, town of Wassenberg.
  • Rothenbach - Dutch side ( "Rode Beek" ), from the Dalheimer Mühle to the confluence with the Rur in Vlodrop: Association Waterschap Roer en Overmaas

Watermills

Tributaries

  • Inflow to the Helpensteiner Bach, 0.848 kilometers
  • Krebsbach , 0.747 kilometers

gallery

  • Pictures from the Helpensteiner Bach

  • The Helpensteiner Bach

  • Former Helpenstein pond

  • The Helpenstein pond on the Tranchot map 1805/1807

  • The Rödgener Burgweiher

  • The Rödgener mill

  • Dalheimer Mill

  • Dalheimer Mill


  • Pictures from the Rothenbach

  • From the Dalheimer Mühle the Helpensteiner Bach becomes the Rothenbach

  • The Rothenbach

  • The mill pond at the Gitstapper mill

  • The mill wheel and the Rothenbach

  • Grinding in the Gitstapper mill

  • Gitstapper mill

  • The Rothenbach just before the mouth in Vlodrop

  • Mouth of the Rothenbach into the Rur with a fish ladder

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 409-410.
  • Edmund Knorr: On the history of the German-Dutch border between Rothenbach and Boschbeeke home calendar of the Erkelenzer Lande, page 95-104

Web links

Commons : Rothenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Helpensteiner Bach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ a b Water directory of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection NRW 2010 (XLS; 4.67 MB) ( Notes )
  3. ↑ ELWAS card