Klingbach

Course of Kling Bach (top)

Klingbach with Altmühle Herxheim

The Klingbach is a nearly 38 -kilometer long watercourse in the southern Palatinate and a left tributary of Michel Bach.

Geography

Course

The main source of Kling Bach rises in the southern Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, approximately 350 m above sea level. Sea level at the north-eastern slope of the castle hill of ruins Lindelbrunn, a right, almost equally strong secondary source about two kilometers to the south. The two source streams flow after about three kilometers along in Silz.

To the east of Klingbach leaves at Klingenmünster the low mountain range, crosses under the German Wine Road and then reaches the Upper Rhine Valley. Its western half it flows initially east, later more northeasterly direction. Southeast of Rohrbach he takes from the left to the almost 20 kilometer Kaiserbach on, above Herxheim also left the eight -kilometer Quodbach.

Until the first half of the 19th century, the Klingbach resulted east of Hördt in a meander of the Upper Rhine. With the straightening of the Rhine, the discharge point (99 meters above sea level. NN ) was functionally the Old Rhine. Nevertheless, the former river loop is now run as a separate rivers with the name Michel Bach.

Local communities on Klingbach

• Silz
• Munchweiler
• Klingenmünster
• Heuchelheim blades
• Cheap -Ingenheim
• Steinweiler
• Rohrbach
• Herxheim
• Herxheimweyher
• Ruelzheim
• Hördt

History

On Klingbach upwards leads a section of the southern route of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago Palatinate. To distinguish them from other places called Munster the community Klingenmünster the name of the creek was to be sent.