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North Rhine-Westphalia

Münster District

Ruhr Region

Kreis Unna

Schwerte

Hörde Creek Spring

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Münster District

Ruhr Region

Kreis Unna

Schwerte

Hörde Creek Spring

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Location: Schwerte, Kreis Unna, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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3. Schwerter Forest – Spaten-Garten at Freischütz loop from Aplerbecker Mark

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Bumble-Bee

August 10, 2023

Since the middle of the 19th century, industrialization in the Ruhr

hundreds also in Dortmund with a large number of watercourses to

fourth changes. Overall, the Lohbach was only moderately

impairs. Despite the extensive development in its catchment area

have retained their natural appearance and original flow

water characteristics largely preserved. It is mainly used by

fed by water flowing off above ground and near the surface. in

embeds in relatively natural floodplain areas he forms today

another natural drainage axis in the districts of Berghofen,

Benninghofen and Loh. Be included with a run length of about 4 km

Catchment area up to the confluence with the Hörder Bach south of the road

At the Goymark about 5 km2

. Of these there are at least a little more than 2 km2

remained as a natural catchment area, the rest is due to settlement

lung channeled. The Lohbach rises as a watercourse in the low mountain range landscape between Obermarkstrasse and Berghofer Strasse

the crest of the Ardey Mountains in the Swords Forest. He drains with

some smaller side inlets and the one in the Rubinstraße area

tributary Heimatbach over the Hörder Bach into the Emscher. In year

In 1965 the source of the Lohbach was turned into an open natural stone building

bordered and their relationship to the Hörder Bach named on a plaque

lich recognized as the "Hörderbach source".

(whbdo.de/pdf/Benninghofen.pdf)

Translated by Google •

Juano Mesas 🚴‍♂️🎼👨‍🎓✍️

November 4, 2023

Plaque commemorating the founding of that mountain club in an emblematic place

Translated by Google •

🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

June 30, 2017

Spring of the stream that initially flows as the Lohbach north-west, where it later becomes the Hörde Creek. In 1965 the Lohbach spring was set more formally into an open natural rock structure, with a bronze plaque dedicating it as the Hörde Creek spring.

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Location: Schwerte, Kreis Unna, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hörde Creek Spring

1. Gehrenbachteich – Kletterwald Freischütz 🌳 loop from Dortmund-Aplerbeck

2. Spaten-Garten at Freischütz – Gehrenbachteich loop from Aplerbecker Mark

3. Schwerter Forest – Spaten-Garten at Freischütz loop from Aplerbecker Mark

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