Weilerswister Mühlgraben

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Weilerswister Mühlgraben
The partly frozen Weilerswister Mühlgraben in winter.

The partly frozen Weilerswister Mühlgraben in winter.

Data
Water code DE : 2742992
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system Rhine
origin Tee off from the Erft at Weilerswist
50 ° 44 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  E
Source height 114  m above sea level NN
muzzle North of Gut Kühlseggen in the Swist coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 22 ″  E 50 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 22 ″  E
Mouth height 106  m above sea level NN
Height difference 8 m
Bottom slope 2.8 ‰
length 2.9 km

The Weilerswister Mühlgraben , increasingly also called Weilerswister Mühlenbach , is an artificial 2.9 km long, orographically left tributary of the Swist in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

geography

The Weilerswister Mühlgraben is created by draining water from the Erft west of Weilerswist at an altitude of 114  m above sea level. NN . It flows in a northerly direction almost parallel to the Erft on the western edge of Weilerswist. After crossing under the federal motorway 61 , it flows around Gut Kühlseggen , where there is a connection to the circular moat of Castle Kühlseggen , and flows about 400 m further on at 106  m above sea level. NN in the Swist. The mouth of the Weilerswister Mühlgraben is about 650 m above the mouth of the Swist and Erft.

Mills

The Mühlkanal was created to supply several water mills along the course. Among other things, the Kühlseggen estate also had its own mill, and the moat there fulfills the function of a mill pond . Of the mills, only the building of the old mill in Weilerswist has survived .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Measurement based on the German basemap 1: 5000
  2. ↑ Water directory of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection NRW 2006 ( Memento from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.03 MB)
  3. ↑ Daniel Heidenbluht: Mills in the area of ​​the community Weilerswist. Episode 3: Vernich and Weilerswist . In: Geschichts- und Heimatverein Weilerswist eV (Hrsg.): Weilerswister Heimatblätter . No. 26/2001 . Weilerswist 2001, p. 26-36 .
  4. ^ Franz Schorn: From old villages and the coronation road Wüschheim and Borr. from: home calendar of the Euskirchen district , 1968. wisoveg.de, accessed on February 13, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Old mill in Weilerswist. Rhineland Nature Park , accessed on February 13, 2012 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Weilerswist  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Swist  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations