Helmbach (Speyerbach)

The Helmbach pond

The helmet Bach is a 11 km long tributary of the Bach Speyer in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland -Palatinate).

Course

The creek originates northwest of the forester's house Taubensuhl and flows first 4 km in a north-easterly direction to the Geiswiese. There he takes from the left Blattenbach on the on the northern slope of 551 m above sea level. NN high hill leaf springs, and then moves to the east - northeast. After 2 km of Helmbach happens Forest Hotel Horn basin area, which was burned down in November 2002 and is opened after reconstruction in 2010, since January 2011 as the forest tavern again. There flows from the right of the rough stream, 2,5 km to the left of the Iggelbach. After a total of 10 km of Helmbach reached the forester's house Helmbach. Here flows from the right Kohlbach, through its impoundment and just east of the so-called Helmbach pond was created. The helmet Bach himself opens about 11 km from the hamlet of the same name from the right in the Speyerbach. There is a stop on the museum railway Kuckucksbähnel.

Tributaries

  • Dry dike Bach ( left), 1.49 km
  • Blattenbach (left), 3.06 km
  • Coarse Bach ( right), 4.35 km
  • Hunzelbach (right) 1.51 km
  • Naughty Bach ( right), 0.62 km
  • Iggelbach (left), 5.08 km
  • Kohlbach (right), 4.98 km

Characteristics

For morphologically clearly defined catchment area of ​​the helmet creek consists of about a dozen tributaries that drain through the Helmbach a part of the Palatinate Forest. To the catchment area of ​​a ring pulls by hills: in the east the back of the Haardt with the riser head, in the south on a 450 to 500 m above sea level. NN -lying mountain range that extends from the forester's house Heldenstein to the forester's house Taubensuhl. From there extends along the western edge to a plateau 609 meters above sea level. NN high Eschkopf, while in the north a ridge with the 571 m above sea level. NN high Schindhübel from Speyerbach basin: area.

Characteristic of this part of the Palatinate Forest are deeply incised V-shaped valleys, dense forests and the lack of settlements; the only place in the entire catchment area is the Elmsteiner district Iggelbach on the upper reaches of the creek of the same name. The southern tributaries of the helmet creek drain predominantly districts that belong politically to communities in the Rhine valley or on the wine route, such as the upper reaches of the helmet Bach himself to Geisweise the town of Landau.

Sections of Bach's helmet were straightened in the 18th century and channeled in order to make them usable for timber rafting.

The helmet Bach is one of the fine material rich, siliceous means mountain streams. The water structure quality is mainly changed with moderate to strong, given the water quality as unencumbered.

Helmbachweiher Blattbach
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