Sprockhöveler Bach

	Sprockhöveler Bach
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	Data
Water code	DE : 27694, DE : 276944
location	Süderbergland Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country Bergisch-Märkisches hill country Märkisches layer rib land; ; Ruhr valley; ; Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Ennepe-Ruhr district ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Ruhr → Rhine → North Sea
source	at Sprockhövel - Haßlinghausen ; 51 ° 19 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 10 ″ E
Source height	277 m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Hattingen in the Ruhr Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '32 " N , 7 ° 10' 46" E 51 ° 24 '32 " N , 7 ° 10' 46" E;
Mouth height	65 m above sea level NN
Height difference	212 m
Bottom slope	approx. 12 ‰
length	approx. 17.8 km
Catchment area	33.637 km²
Medium-sized cities	Sprockhövel, Hattingen

The Sprockhöveler Bach is a left tributary of the lower Ruhr named after the town of Sprockhövel , which flows north and northwest over the urban area in Hattingen .

geography

course

The stream rises in the southwest of Haßlinghausen , at Halloh . Here he has to break through the hard sandstone banks that were mined near Weuste .

The brook has dug its way in a geological fault. The tributaries and Siepen buried in the soft clay layers feed the stream with their water.

The Obere Lauf was also previously named Wiggershauser Bach .

The stream meanders through the wide valley to the north and crosses under the former Bossel – Blankenstein railway . Here he feeds a couple of fish ponds. From here the stream runs parallel to the old Schee-Hattingen railway line at a suitable distance . To the north of the Kleine Windmühle colliery , it crosses the road from Sprockhövel to Schwelm and later turns west towards the center of Niedersprockhövel. Before reaching the settlement area, the brook runs through a flood protection system, which is intended to prevent flooding in the town center by limiting the flow rate and to direct the water to other floodplain areas. A large mill pond used to be a few meters away from this building. Passing the core of Sprockhövel, we continue west to Bredenscheid . But here a hard sandstone bank is pierced again. Then the bank turns to the east and flows around Hattingen. In Ludwigstal, it then disappears into the piping to pass under the area of the steelworks museum to Werkstrasse. Behind the former Henrichshütte , the stream ends today with a large passage in the Ruhr.

The lower course was formerly called Schierhöller Bach or Sünsbruch Bach .

Main hydrological strand

While the above course corresponds to the usual topographic maps, according to the water station with Sprockhöveler Bach only the upper and middle reaches of this creek (276942, 11.2 km) are designated, which are classified as tributaries of the Paasbach (27694, lower reaches 6.6 km long) becomes. Accordingly, the stream described here has two water body numbers.

Direct comparison of the two upper reaches at the confluence:

Surname	GKZ	length [in km]	EZG [in km²]	MQ [in l / s]
Sprockhöveler Bach	276944	11.3	13.65	256
Paasbach	27694	07.8	09.40	176

The upper course called Sprockhöveler Bach has a different GKZ than its lower course, but has a larger mean discharge, a larger catchment area and is longer than the Paasbach, which has the same GKZ as the lower course. The upper course with the name Sprockhöveler Bach is thus the main hydrological branch of the Sprockhöveler Bach river system.

Tributaries

Direct and indirect tributaries with names from the source to the mouth

Kleinbecke ( right ), 0.3
Dickwallbach ( right ), 0.5 km
Paasbach ( left ), 7.8 km
- Kauerbach ( right ), 0.5 km
- Heimbecke ( right ), 0.4 km
- (Bach) at Vogelbruch, 1.6 km
Maasbecke ( right ), 3.3 km
- Hesselbecke ( right ), 1.3 km

Hydropower

The use of hydropower was sparse.

Mill House Bruch
Grinding pebbles on the scraper mill
Mill Sprockhövel

natural reserve

Some sections of the Sprockhöveler Bach are designated as nature reserves due to their natural, preserved brook landscape including meanders :

Mining

Some tributaries have dried up due to mining. Some dilapidated tunnels have taken over the function of drainage.

Individual evidence

^ Karlheinz Paffen , Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 7.1 MB)
↑ ^a ^b German basic map 1: 5000
↑ ^a ^b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information ) (query on November 7, 2010)
↑ ^a ^b The length of 17.8 kilometers is calculated from the 11.2 km length under water code number 276942 plus 6.6 km lower reaches of 27694; 7.8 of the 14.4 km recorded under 27694 remain for the Paasbach.
↑ ^a ^b ELWAS specialist information system, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia ( notes )

[DE_BfL-109-1] Karlheinz Paffen , Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 7.1 MB)

[DE_DGK5-2] German basic map 1: 5000

[DE-NW_TIM-3] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information ) (query on November 7, 2010)

[Länge-4] The length of 17.8 kilometers is calculated from the 11.2 km length under water code number 276942 plus 6.6 km lower reaches of 27694; 7.8 of the 14.4 km recorded under 27694 remain for the Paasbach.

[DE-NW_ELWAS-5] ELWAS specialist information system, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia ( notes )