Helmbachweiher

The Helmbach Pond is a lake in the middle Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland -Palatinate). It is located near the helmet Bach's about two kilometers before its confluence with the Speyerbach the forest municipalities of Elmstein, Kirrweiler and Venningen.

The lake is in its origin the Woogen the Middle Ages comparable and in 1970 created by damming the Kohlbach, a right tributary of the helmet Bach. It has an area of ​​0.6 hectares and a maximum of two meters deep. He primarily serves as a Kneipp water. Are the forester's house Helmbach, an adventure playground, a barbecue area and a teaching garden in the immediate vicinity.