Wuppertalsperre

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Wuppertalsperre
The Wuppertalsperre near Radevormwald-Honsberg
The Wuppertalsperre near Radevormwald- Honsberg
Location: Oberbergischer Kreis
Tributaries: Wupper , Wiebach
Major cities nearby: Remscheid , Radevormwald , Hückeswagen
Wuppertalsperre (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wuppertalsperre
Coordinates 51 ° 11 ′ 54 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 54 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 4"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1982-1987
Height above valley floor: 35 m
Height above foundation level : 41 m
Height above the river bed : 39 m
Height of the structure crown: 255.00 m
Building volume: 500,000 m³
Crown length: 320 m
Crown width: 10.5 m
Power plant output: 2.4 MW
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 252.50 m
Water surface 225 hadep1
Storage space 25.9 million m³
Catchment area 212 km²
Design flood : 318 m³ / s
Wuppertalsperre dam 19P21.jpg
Dam of the Wuppertalsperre near Radevormwald- Krebsöge

The Wuppertalsperre lies in the city triangle Remscheid , Radevormwald and Hückeswagen . It is a process water dam . It serves to increase the low water level, protect the Wupper from flooding and generate hydropower .

History and general facts

The basic planning work was completed in 1957. In 1962, the preparatory work began, such as the laying of roads and a drinking water pipe. The construction of the main dam took place from 1982 to 1987. The start-up and completion of the dam took place in 1989. The barrier structure, the 320 m long and 40 m high dam of the dam, consists of a stone fill with an asphalt concrete inner seal . The maximum storage volume of the dam is 25.9 million m³ with an annual inflow of around 138 million m³. 440 hectares of land were purchased for the dam. At the time, the total cost of the dam was 235 million marks.

There are a total of five pre -dams of the Wupper Dam:

Other tributaries into the Wuppertalsperre are:

Sunken towns, industrial plants and sights

The Wupperbrücke in Kräwinklerbrücke is the oldest surviving - but sunken - bridge over the Wupper. It was built "a few decades" before the Wupper Bridge, which was completed in 1775, in Barmen-Heckinghausen.

Before the dam was built in 1982–1987, the following localities and facilities were demolished and finally flooded by the dammed water:

  • Carolinengrube
  • Cöens Mill
  • Dörpe (with Jung-Stilling House)
    • Enneper steelworks in Dörpe
  • Hammersteinsöge
    • Old felt factory
    • Hof Hammerstein (old noble residence, not to be confused with Haus Hammerstein, which is the only building left today)
  • Maria zur Mühlen chapel (Kräwinklerbrücke)
  • Kräwinklerbrücke (large parts of the village)
  • Krebsöge (parts of the village, was a railway junction)
  • Urbach & Co. steelworks (Kräwinklerbrücke)
  • Nieder- and Oberkretze
    • Hummeltenberger mill
    • Löbbeckes Mill
  • Oege
  • Wiebachtal (see also Wiebach and Wiebach pre-lock )
    • Himmelswiese (excursion destination)
    • Hut der Naturfreunde, later SGV-Heim
    • Moonstone (step stones that were the basis of a Bergisch legend)

As part of the construction of the dam, the Wuppertal - Radevormwald - Bruges railway ( Wuppertal Railway , route number 2704) between Wilhelmstal and Radevormwald was shut down in 1980 . The Krebsöge train station (Remscheid-Lennep - Krebsöge and Wuppertal - Bruges routes) was located at the site of the dam. The Kräwinklerbrücke station was demolished, as was the entire railway system in the congestion area.

leisure

The Wiebach pre-lock
Boat harbor in Kräwinklerbrücke

The Wuppertalsperre with its possibilities for recreational activities is a magnet for visitors from the entire region. Leisure activities include numerous hiking and biking trails, rest areas, holiday homes and a marina for sailing and rowing boats.

The medieval ring wall system Am Bilstein is located at the Wuppertalsperre . The ground monument can be reached via a junction from the A 7 hiking trail.

Diving

Barrage of the Wupper pre-lock

The dam is not a safe area for amateur divers ; The frogmen tell each other horror stories about some ditches under water. Nevertheless - or maybe because of this - the Wuppertalsperre between Radevormwald , Remscheid and Hückeswagen has become a Dorado for scuba divers .

For 15 years, from 1995 to 2010, the rights for water sports use of the Wuppertalsperre were in the hands of the water sports and leisure facility Kräwinklerbrücke GmbH . In 2010, after a long legal dispute with the company and the city of Remscheid, the rights were transferred to GABE gGmbH ; a non-profit company that has set itself the task of employing, qualifying and training young people and the (long-term) unemployed in order to improve their chances on the job market.

Sights (underwater):

  • fully preserved viaduct with three submersible bridge arches
  • Wooden weir
  • buried bridge arch
  • Quarry stone wall edging the bridge
  • Factory facade
  • Rock walls

literature

  • Norbert Wolff: Sunk in the Wupper floods . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-610-8 .
  • Manfred Heymann: "Crab-roe original". The small town before the Wupper Dam was built. A nostalgia. Jungdruck, Radevormwald 2007.
  • Heinz-Dieter Dörner: History from the Wupper dam. Illustrated book with chronicles and descriptions of the Kräwinkler Bridge and the Krebsöge. WFT Verlag. Wermelskirchen 2005, ISBN 3-929095-21-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Marpe in a letter to the editor to the Bergische Morgenpost on March 14, 1987

See also

Web links

Commons : Wuppertalsperre  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files