Hiesfeld Water Features (Rotbach Pump Station)

In 1996, the Rotbach was renatured here and continues in its main dimensions now through another retention basin underground. However, so that the old riverbed does not dry out, a pump (Bach pumping station Dinslaken-Rotbach) was installed and the Rotbach runs from this point contrary to the natural flow direction. When you get off the track, you can hear the pump after the wooden bridge in the right-hand bend, left in the bushes and ride for the first time in the direction of the Rotbach stream.

Well, once the Rotbach flowed without help to the Rhine.
Today, thanks to mining, he has to be pumped up to his old level.
The fact that this is also pretty to look at and has been designed close to nature, is also the mining industry, which will promote the last coal here in the district in 2018, owed.

An interesting technical structure. What we owe to the coal.