Westerbach (Flöthe)
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 This historical (and with today's boundaries supplemented) map of the area of today's city of Lübbecke shows the course of the Westerbach. The lettering Wester B. can be found immediately east of the village of Hoope (Hoope, in turn, is northeast of Blasheim) |
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| Water code | DE : 4761462 | |
| location | Lübbecke , Minden-Lübbecke district , East Westphalia , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| River system | Weser | |
| Drain over | Flöthe → Große Aue → Weser → North Sea | |
| source | west of Wurzelbrink 52 ° 16 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 29 ″ E |
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| muzzle | between Blasheim and Lübbecker core town in the Flöthe Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 34 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 4" E 52 ° 18 ′ 34 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 4" E
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| length | 5.1 km | |
 Upper course of the Westerbach not far from the headwaters |
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 Not the only, but certainly the most striking and best-known source of the Westerbach is this enclosed source on the western slope of the Wurzelbrink |
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The Westerbach is a five kilometer long stream that flows through the East Westphalian town of Lübbecke and, still in the same area, flows into the small river system of the Flöthe . It runs roughly in the course of the border of the Lübbecker core town on the one hand and the districts of Obermehnen and Blasheim on the other, i.e. in the course of the old border of the city of Lübbecke before the regional reform in 1973 to the former municipality of Blasheim.
The Westerbach arises in the Wiehengebirge west of the Wurzelbrink in the mountain section, which is also called Egge , at a height of about 220 meters from the confluence of several smaller source streams. These themselves usually do not have prominent bubbling springs, but gradually seep from the bottom. Only an enclosed spring on a path on the western edge of the Wurzelbrink shows the appearance of a classic spring. The Westerbach flows through this narrow mountain range, which at this point is comparatively wide at around two kilometers, hardly meandering, in a deeply incised valley to the north and after around 1.2 kilometers it reaches the Lübbecker Loessland , here the Obernfelde estate . In the old days the brook drove a water mill here, which can still be seen on the estate. The stream then flows further north, with the longest part of it being laid underground from the Lübbecke hospital. To the north of the B65 federal highway, it appears again for several hundred meters, but then runs underground again. Near Stockhausen it gets lost in the branched river system of the aforementioned Flöthe.
In the north of its course, it is the namesake for Westerbachstraße , a western bypass of almost supra-local relevance that connects the west of the core city of Lübbeck with Stockhausen.
The brook feeds larger ponds in two places: not far from the headwaters, a pond in the Wiehen Mountains and, downstream, the old mill pond at Gut Obernfelde. In terms of length, catchment area, gradient, direction of flow, in that it is already a bubbling brook within the narrow Wiehen Mountains, then extensively underground and finally because it also flows into the Flöthe, the Westerbach is very similar to the Ronceva to the east and a little less to the west flowing Mehner Bach , which flows into the Große Aue instead of the Flöthe and is allowed to flow above ground throughout.
On its relatively short course, the Westerbach flows through three very different large landscapes: The Wiehen Mountains, then the Lübbecker Loessland and finally the Rahden-Diepenauer Geest .
use
The Westerbach is of local importance for sport fishing. Perch, roach and gudgeon can be fished.
Individual evidence
- Topographic map 1: 50,000, available via TIM-Online NRW