Vestic ridge

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Vestic ridge
Highest peak Fritzberg ( 113  m above sea  level )
Vestic ridge (Regional Association Ruhr)
Vestic ridge
Coordinates 51 ° 37 ′  N , 7 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′  N , 7 ° 14 ′  E
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The vestibular ridge is a flat, undulating ridge in the northern Ruhr area , a maximum of 113  m above sea level and thus towering over the surrounding river valleys by around 60 to 70 m . It is naturally part of the main Emscherland unit and rises between the junction of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Rhine-Herne Canal in the east, the Emscher in the south, the Boye in the southwest to the west, the Schölsbach in the northwest and the Lippe in the north and the Sickingmühlenbach and its headwaters Silvertbach in the northeast. Emscher, Boye and Lippe flow some distance away.

The Vestische Höhenrück is mostly in the Recklinghausen district and forms the heartland of the former Vestes , from which the district emerged with a few boundary changes. On its southern flank, in the north of the Ruhr area, it touches the district town of Recklinghausen (excluding Südstadt) from east to west , the north of the city of Herten , the former city of Buer (today part of the city of Gelsenkirchen , without its south) and the north of the city Gladbeck . The northern flank includes most of the city of Marl and the north of Buers (with Hassel and Scholven ) as well as rural areas.

The highest artificial elevations in the landscape are the coal heaps today, especially the Oberscholven heap at 201.8  m above sea level. The latter is clearly dominated by the neighboring chimneys, which are 302  m high from the ground level .

Natural structure

The Vestic Loess Ridge is structured as follows:

The Vestic Ridge is divided into the Recklinghauser Loess Ridge, up to 113  m above sea level, around Recklinghausen in the east, the Buerschen ridges up to 94  m above sea level near and northwest of Gelsenkirchen-Buer in the west and the Marl flat waves around Marl in the north.

The Recklinghausen loess ridge stretches in the form of a semicircle open to the south from the water tower on the Fritzberg ( 113  m ) in the east to the water tower Herten - Scherlebeck 110  m , close to the western city limits, around the Recklinghausen city center. Overall, it has a higher proportion of loess - loess loam, and also sand loess at the edge - than the other sub-landscapes. The natural forest community is represented by the European beech forest , where small islands such as z. B. remember the tan in the east of the district town.

In Herten- Westerholt , the Recklinghäuser Lößback merges to the west into the Buerschen Höhenrück , which on the Löchterheide, in the east of the (former) core town of Buers , already finds its center of gravity at 94  m in the southeast and flattens very gradually towards the northwest. On the southern edge are still like islands in a small nature reserve in Deipen Gatt remnants of the original beech, oak hornbeam and alder - ash - flooded forest preserve.

To the northwest of Recklinghausen Lößrücken of the flat wave is only 35 m below sea level high Marler flat waves in the north of Vestische ridge to Marl to lip abgedacht out. Sandloess islands only appear here on the southern edge. The areas of the terrain waves are used for agriculture, the stream valleys about 10 meters below tend to become swampy and serve as pastureland.

Ridge line

Analogous to the natural spatial structure, the ridge line, which also represents the watershed between Emscher and Lippe , is divided into an eastern part, which stretches around the Recklinghausen city ​​center, and a western part, which runs from Gelsenkirchen-Buer to the northwest.

Recklinghäuser loess backs

In the east the ridge of the ridge begins at Datteln - Meckinghoven . Immediately to the east there is the connection between the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Dortmund-Ems Canal at 56.6  m , on which the branch canal from the port of Dortmund meets at a height of about 70 m from the south-east , which is compensated by the Henrichenburg lock . South of Horneburg , the edge heights of the ridge (Lohkamp) reach 78.8  m here . The ridge line runs, initially only slightly rising, in a south-westerly direction and roughly follows the Hochfeld road between Horneburg and Suderwich .

View from the ridge to the east (Bergstrasse in Recklinghausen, not far from the Loh wood , highest point at 105.8 m) to the southeast; in the center of the Gustav Knepper power station (9.2 km away); left in the foreground outskirts of Suderwich.

Only in Recklinghausen's urban area, shortly before reaching the connecting line between Essel in the north and Suderwich in the south, does the ridge turn to west-northwest with a briefly steeper rise. In the transverse direction, between the two named Recklinghausen districts, the ridge assumes the shape of a rib and in particular rises comparatively steeply to both districts. So the terrain rises z. B. from Essel to the beginning of the Lohweg on 500 meters horizontal distance from 80 to 100 m (4% gradient). Here the north flank runs comparatively steeply, which is reserved further west of the south flank facing the Emscher.

On the 2 kilometers to the Fritzberg , which follows the Lohweg , the ridge only rises to 113 m to the west-northwest, which corresponds to about 0.7%.

The view to the southeast and south over the Ardey Mountains to the Iserlohner Höhe , which is almost 50 km away and up to 546 m high (see the picture opposite, directly behind the Knepper power plant) and beyond, is astonishing for the local altitude . with optimal visibility, individual mountains of the Rothaargebirge 90 km away can be made out.

Steep southern drop on Fritzberg; in the background the Herne power station and the Sauerland mountain ranges .

At the highest point of the ridge is the old Recklinghausen water tower , 150 m southwest of it the 90 m high telecommunications tower at almost the same height. The Höhenweg falls south of the telecommunications tower at only 250 meters by 20 m from 105 m to 85 m (8% gradient) to the residential area Quellberg , where the terrain to the southwest to Hellbach on the railway line is initially steeper, then gently up to 60 m drops (on average 25 m to 1.2 km, i.e. around 2%). From the radio tower to the city center to the west, the terrain falls over 1.5 km to around 70 m (an average of 2.7%).

The ridge line now circles the inner city to the north, whereby the area always remains over 93 m ( Lange Wanne sports field : 93.6 m). At the northern edge of the north cemetery 100 m are reached again, northwest of the city ​​garden , not far from the observatory then 108 m, at the intersection of Dorstener Straße with Zeppelinstraße and Westring or when it joins the B225 it is 110.2 m. Further to the southwest, the area reaches 109.9  m immediately northwest of the water towers ( Herten - Scherlebeck , immediately west of the city limits) . Further to the southwest, the ridge remains to the Paschenberg ( 100.9  m ) over 98 m, until the terrain in that direction finally within 750 meters from 90 m to 60 m (4% gradient) and finally west of the castle to less than 50 m falls off.

The ridge, on the other hand, runs in a west-south-west direction to the Westerholt district , where it only reaches about 70 m. Here is the western interface to the Buerer ridge.

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View from Fritzberg to Recklinghausen (city center about 2 km away in the foreground) and the dump of the northern Ruhr area, above all the Oberscholven dump (201.8 m, half right; 14.7 km away). The course and height structure of the loess ridge can be seen well:
Opposite the Recklinghausen inner city, which is at the town hall (half left, right of the neo-Romanesque, about 10 m raised Pauluskirche) below 70 m, the winding tower of the Schlägel und Eisen colliery in Herten-Langenbochum (immediately to the left of the Halde Oberscholven, 7.6 km away) increased (about 88.5 m above sea level). The ridge rises to the right or northeast to the two water towers in Herten-Scherlebeck (right, 4.7 km away) to 109.9 m and after a short descent back to 110.2 m (Knappschaftskrankenhaus far right 3.4 km Distance); further in an arch shape with a slight sinking to the Lange Wanne, to finally reach its maximum height of 113.6 m on the Fritzberg after climbing again.

Buerscher ridge

From Westerholt the ridge rises to the south-south-west again to reach Buers on the Löchterheide in the east ( Gelsenkirchen -) and at the intersection Crangerstraße / Vom-Stein-Straße 94  m . In the south of Buer, the slope falls to the south within only 250 meters from 80 to 60 m above sea level (8% gradient). The water level of the lower basin at the port of Gelsenkirchen is located 5 km south-south-west of the aforementioned intersection at just 29  m above sea level and thus 65 m lower than the ridge.

The ridge, which from now on runs continuously to the west-north-west, initially falls again, but in the west of Bülser Strasse in the north-east of Gladbeck it again reaches 82.6  m . Further in that direction, the ridge is briefly below 70 m, at the north-western border of the Zweckel zu Bottrop - Kirchhellen district , the ridge finally remains just over 60 m. Immediately to the east of the core town of Kirchhellens, another 75.2  m are reached until the route of the A 31 running in north-south direction limits the natural area to the west to only about 55 m.

Flowing waters

The Vestic Ridge is drained by the following rivers and streams in a clockwise direction, starting in the southeast:

The Rapphoffsmühlenbach forms the dividing line between the Buerscher ridge and the Marl flat waves in the northwest; Opposite it to the southeast, the Holzbach rises in the southeastern saddle area between Recklinglauser and Buerschem Ridge.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geographical survey: The natural units on sheet 95/96 - Kleve / Wesel (Wilhelm von Kürten 1977; units on 543.0 in the east of the sheet) - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg → Map (PDF, 7 MB)
  2. ↑ Basic map 1: 5,000
  3. ↑ This value is displayed on the map 1: 10,000: the base map only shows the 107 m line and a point at 107.5 m
  4. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes ) - Water stationing, basic map 1: 5,000 and new additions 1891–1912 can be activated
  5. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) - municipal boundaries can be activated in the map service for protected areas
  6. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  7. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

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