Erlenbach (Michelsbach)

Course of Erlenbach (center)

Course

The Erlenbach rises in the southern Palatinate Wasgau, the southern part of the Palatinate Forest, in the municipality Birkenhördt at an altitude of 245 m. It flows eastward and leaves at Bad Bergzabern the Palatinate Forest, where it breaks through its eastern edge. Then it flows through Chapel Drusweiler, Oberhausen, Barbelroth and winches. He then forms the border between Kandel and Erlenbach or Hatzenbühl. After passing Rheinzabern and Neupotz, he joins in Leimersheim with the coming of the right to Otterbach Michel Bach. This consists of several former Altrhein loops and flows about 10 km parallel run at Sondernheim into the Rhine, with its mouth height is 96 m.