Location North Rhine-Westphalia Length 20 km Mouth Odenthal | River system Rhine Source Wermelskirchen Country Germany | |
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Main source Near Wermelskirchen
336 m (1,102 ft) River mouth Near Odenthal into the Dhünn
95 m (312 ft) | ||
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Eifgenbach is a 20.5 km (12.7 mi)-long river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its source is near Wermelskirchen, appr. 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Wuppertal. It runs in south-westerly direction, and its mouth into the river Dhünn is near Odenthal, appr. 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Cologne.
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Map of Eifgenbach, Germany
460 acres of the river basin of the Eifgenbach and its tributaries have been declared nature reserve in order to protect its bio-diversity.
About 1 km (0.62 mi) below the mouth into the Dhünn lies Altenberg cathedral (German: Altenberger Dom), a monastery church built from 1255 on by Adolf IV, Count of Berg in gothic style. Today the cathedral belongs to the German state of North Rhine-Westfalia and is used both by the Protestant and Roman Catholic church as shared church.