The great outdoors (5)

Posted by Michael (Wuppertal, Germany) on 18 May 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

Sometimes our way leads us just near a small river called "Wupper". The city, where I live, is named by this river.

The Wupper is a right tributary to the Rhine river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It emerges near Marienheide, in western Sauerland. Its upper course is called Wipper. On its course of about 113 km it traverses the town of Wuppertal where the Schwebebahn Wuppertal runs over the river bed.

The river is not navigable and is located in the former Duchy of Berg. Before industrialization, the water was used for bleaching. Early industialization profited from water power provided by the many rivulets to the Wupper.
It is crossed by the highest railroad bridge in Germany near Müngsten, between Remscheid and Solingen. A few miles further down, Schloss Burg is located on a hill overlooking the river. The river enters the Rhine river in Leverkusen, south of Düsseldorf.

Else Lasker-Schüler wrote the drama: Die Wupper.

Wupper. (2008, February 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:18, May 15, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wupper&oldid=190048924

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