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{{Short description|River in Germany}} {{Use American English|date=November 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox river | name = Wupper | image = Verlaufskarte Wupper.png | image_caption = Wupper | source1_location = [[Sauerland]] | mouth_location = [[Rhine]] | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|51|02|43|N|6|56|27|E|region:DE|display=inline,title}} | progression = {{RRhine}} | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = [[Germany]] | subdivision_type2 = [[States of Germany|State]] | subdivision_name2 = [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] | length = {{convert|115.8|km|abbr=on}} {{GeoQuelle|DE-NW|GSK3C}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|441|m|abbr=on}} | discharge1_avg = {{convert|17|m3/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="die12">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313031159/http://www.wupperverband.de/aufgaben/gewaesser/die.wupper.html Die Wupper] // Wupperverband {{in lang|de}}</ref> | basin_size = {{convert|813|km2|abbr=on}} {{GeoQuelle|DE-NW|GSK3C}} | tributaries_left = [[Dhünn]] | tributaries_right = }} The '''Wupper''' ({{IPA|de|ˈvʊpɐ|-|De-Wupper.ogg}}) is a right [[tributary]] of the [[Rhine]] in the state of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]]. Rising near [[Marienheide]] in western [[Sauerland]] it runs through the mountainous region of the [[Bergisches Land]] in Berg County and enters the Rhine at [[Leverkusen]], south of [[Düsseldorf]]. Its upper course is called the Wipper. Both names are related to "weave", and refer to the twisting course.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wippen#German | title=Wippen | date=April 7, 2022 }}</ref> [[Image:Brücke wikipedia.jpg|left|thumb|140px|[[Müngsten Bridge]] between [[Remscheid]] and [[Solingen]].]] [[Image:Muengsten.jpg|thumb|Müngstener Brücke (Müngsten Bridge).]] On its course of about {{convert|116|km|sp=us}}, the Wupper passes through the city of [[Wuppertal]] where the [[Wuppertal Suspension Railway|suspension railway]] runs for {{convert|10|km|sp=us}} above the river. It is crossed by the highest [[railway]] bridge in Germany near Müngsten, between [[Remscheid]] and [[Solingen]]. A few kilometers further down, [[Burg Castle (Solingen)|Burg Castle]] is located on a hill overlooking the river. ==Hydropower== From the 15th century, the Wupper and its numerous streams gave birth to hundreds of workshops, mills and factories on their banks. Originally water was used for [[dyeing]], [[bleaching]] and washing canvas and cloth;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.langerfeld.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=68 |title=Cloth Bleaching alongside Wupper River |publisher=Municipality of Wuppertal |access-date=12 January 2011}}</ref> later it was used to power machines or transport waste. The Wupper thus facilitated the early industrial expansion of [[Wuppertal]] (German for "Wupper Valley") during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The Wupper Valley was one of the world's first industrialized regions and empowered ''inter alia'' the [[Ruhr]] valley as a coal-mining region. [[File:Wuppertal Schwebebahn 2005.jpg|right|thumb|220px|The [[suspension railway]] over the Wupper in [[Wuppertal]].]] [[File:Wupper unter Schwebebahn.jpg|thumb|Wupper under suspension railway.]] ==Tributaries== The following rivers are tributaries to the river Wupper (from source to mouth):{{GeoQuelle|DE-NW|GSK3C}} *Left: [[Gaulbach]], [[Brunsbach (Wupper)|Brunsbach]], Pixwaager Bach, [[Dörpe]], [[Wilhelmstaler Bach]], Hardtbach, Lohbach, Nöllenberger Bach, Stoffelsberger Bach, Hofsiefen, [[Hengstener Bach]], Steinhauser Bach, Lohmühlenbach, [[Herbringhauser Bach]], [[Marscheider Bach]], Eschensiepen, [[Blombach]], Norrenberger Bach, [[Murmelbach (Wupper)|Murmelbach]], Fischertaler Bach, Springer Bach, Kothener Bach, [[Auer Bach]], [[Bendahler Bach]], Klusensprung, Holzer Bach, [[Hatzenbeck]], Ossenbeck, [[Rutenbeck (Wupper)|Rutenbeck]], Glasbach, [[Burgholzbach]], Weilandsiepen, [[Kaltenbach (Wupper)|Kaltenbach]], [[Morsbach (Wupper)|Morsbach]], [[Eschbach (Wupper)|Eschbach]], [[Sengbach]], [[Weltersbach]], [[Murbach (Wupper)|Murbach]], [[Wiembach]], [[Dhünn]]. *Right: [[Kerspe]], [[Hönnige (Wupper)|Hönnige]], [[Neye (Wupper)|Neye]], [[Bever (Wupper)|Bever]], Frohnhauser Bach, [[Wiebach]], Kretzer Bach, [[Uelfe]], [[Remlingrader Bach]], [[Spreeler Bach]], Steinhauserbergbach, Nebenkämper Siefen, Ehrenberger Bach, Steinbruch Siefen, Schmitteborner Bach, Hebbecke, [[Schwelme]], [[Schwarzbach (Wupper)|Schwarzbach]], [[Leimbach (Wupper)|Leimbach]], Schönebeck, [[Mirker Bach]], [[Briller Bach]], [[Varresbeck]], [[Lüntenbeck]], [[Rottscheider Bach]], Buchenhofener Siepen. ==Other== * On July 21, 1950, a young elephant named Tuffi, made to ride on the train by her handler as an advertising stunt, decided she did not like the ride, panicked (and panicked the other, human, passengers), burst out of the car she was riding in, and jumped or fell into the Wupper, only slightly injuring herself. In 1970 Marguerita Eckel and Ernst-Andreas Ziegler published a children's picture book about the incident, ''Tuffi und die Schwebebahn''. * The Wupper is cited in the German sayings: "Über die Wupper gehen", literally "To go over the Wupper", metaphorically meaning "going bankrupt", "going into jail" or "going to die".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.swr.de/blog/1000antworten/antwort/16807/woher-kommt-ueber-die-wupper-gehen/ |title= Woher kommt "Über die Wupper gehen"?|author= Rolf-Bernhard Essig |publisher= [[Südwestrundfunk|SWR]]|access-date=2 September 2014|language=de}}</ref> * [[Else Lasker-Schüler]] wrote a drama entitled ''Die Wupper''. <!-- * The 1928 American musical ''Whoopee'' and the famous title song ''Makin' whoopee!'' may have been inspired by the German saying "Wir wuppen das". The writer of the song was [[Gus Kahn]], who was born in Koblenz, about {{convert|100|km|sp=us}} from the Wupper Valley and might have known this saying.<ref>Theory from Dutch journalist J. Vandersteen</ref> "wuppen" is probably not related to the river. --> ==See also== *[[List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category|Wupper}} {{Wikisource1911Enc|Wupper}} {{Rhine Tributaries}} {{Rivers of Germany}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Wupper| ]] [[Category:Rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:Wupper basin| ]] [[Category:Rivers of Germany]]
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