Lauter (Rhine)
River course
Drift between military Hinterweidenthal and Dahn
The Lauter, called on the entire upper reaches of the southern Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, to the French border Wieslauter, is an orographic left tributary of the Rhine. As waters III. Classified order, the volume drained next Speyerbach Queich and Schwarzenbach one of the four major river systems of the Palatinate Forest. Including its longest source river is 74 km long.
Name
The name Wieslauter carries the flow to distinguish it from the second Palatine Lauter, which rises near Kaiserslautern and also forest Lauter is called. The extension to Wieslauter is unclear; are discussed two different linguistic sources: Although the upper stream section leads through more forest than through meadows, meadow would be conceivable as the origin. The old term " Wäschlauterhof " for the Wieslauterhof but can the fact that the water of the Lauter was used to clean the laundry, as appear at least as plausible for the naming.
Course
The source of Wieslauter is located in the Palatinate Forest, immediately southeast of Palatine main watershed south of the castle Gräfenstein and just above the hamlet Wieslauterhof in a tributary of the Zieglertals. The site is marked by the Ritterstein 230 with the inscription " Wieslauter origin ". The brook flows immediately into a Woog, a small Stauweiher whose drain after about 500 meters from the right in a substantially water- richer waters, waiting to stream flows.
This is 7.16 kilometers, the longest tributary of the source Wieslauter and flows almost parallel to the watershed in southwestern direction. It occurs as a raft creek 382 meters above sea level on the western edge of the refuge head to light and served what his name suggests, formerly the Holztrift. To this end, he was jammed beneath its source to Gambswoog, which is also called Gambsklause.
About 1.3 kilometers from the confluence of Wieslauter and wait Bach takes this left the 4.3 kilometer Scheidbach on. Its source is located in 374 meters of altitude on the western edge of the 610 meter high white mountain.
In Hinterweidenthal the Wieslauter flows in a five-membered Talspinne from the right almost opposite direction of the valley of the strongest tributary to, the 14 km long salt creek that has no roll-call source. His most important river is the source book stream; this originates on the northern flank of the High List, and flows past to the north east by the hamlets glassworks and Langmühle before he unites with two kilometers to the community Salzwoog with the Storr Bach to Bach salt.
Shortly before Dahn also opens from the right and very blunt the eight-kilometer second largest tributary creek moss; the Wieslauter here flows to the southeast. It happened Bruchweiler- Bear Creek and takes at Niederschlettenbach left the eight -kilometer-long and flowing from north to south on Erlenbach. Five kilometers after crossing the Bobenthal Wieslauter the border from Germany to France, where it is then called la Lauter. Immediately afterwards they reached in Wissembourg ( Wissembourg, Alsace ) the Upper Rhine Valley.
From here on, the volume goes further to the southeast, on the southern edge of the Bien forest and essentially forms the border between Germany and France, before being used in Lauterbourg (volume Burg, Alsace ) for the last five kilometers left of the old drain line as New Loud France again leaves. In Neuburg the volume flows after about 74 kilometers into the Rhine.
The Old Lauter south of the new mouth of the arm marked up her own mouth of the Rhine ( four kilometers ) continues to the state line. Right of mouth is the most easterly point of France, left the southernmost point of Rhineland- Palatinate.
History
Towards the end of the 15th century had both Emperor and Pope with the " water feud " deal, Hans von Trotha, Knights of Berwartstein, fought out with the monastery White Castle: First, let the knight in Sagengut the region " Hans Trapp " is called, the Wieslauter accumulate and so deprived the downstream town of White castle the water; after complaints of the monastery, he took care of the tearing of the dam and caused a massive flood in white castle with considerable economic damage.
The area around the upper Wieslauter and its source rivers belonged to the beginning of the 19th century to the Margraviate of Baden; north of the White Mountain can still be historical landmarks, such as the name " Scheidbach " indicates a boundary waters. With the Peace of Luneville (1801 ), the entire left bank of Germany was formally under international law, part of the French Republic and remained so until Napoleon's disempowerment 1815.
As a result of World War II in 1946, the two parts of the German Mundatwaldes who left the Lauter - north west and east of White Castle - are, annexed by France. They were returned to Germany in 1986.
Attractions and Tourism
The area at the headwaters of the Lauter, the Dahn another is particularly rich in rock formations from red sandstone, and many hilltops bear rock castles.
Jungfernsprung
Castle Neudahn
Castle Altdahn
Tourist attractions are, for example, the mushroom rocks at Devil's Table Hinterweidenthal and the 70 meter high Jungfernsprung in Dahn, around which a lots of legends. Known strongholds are Neudahn that Dahn Castle Group Altdahn, Grafendahn and Tanstein, the Drachenfels, which was destroyed by SICKINGEN because of the rebellious knight Franz, and the Berwartstein the knight Hans von Trotha. With an internal floor area of 1320 m² impressed by the Gothic church of the former monastery White Castle, the Knight Hans his " water feud " fought out.
Berwartstein
Collegiate church of the former monastery White Castle
Church of Lauterburg
Along the volume up above about 59 km from Hinterweidenthal to the mouth by a blue sign with a cyclist marked cycle path, which is called the German - French Pamina bike path Lauter or short Wieslautertal bike path.
The Wieslauter also serves as a canoe route. However, for reasons of nature protection of the river is navigable only with One seater without rudder and only with sufficient water depth; at the level Bobenthal must have the volume up a level of at least 75 cm. Since 2001 A corresponding regulation applies.
The Dahn, through which the Wieslauter flows, is preferred as the heartland of the climbing area Suedpfalz goal of sport climbers.