Mußbach

The Mußbach on the southeastern outskirts of Gimmeldingen, left the north wall of Wiedemann 's mill

The Mußbach is a nearly 12 -kilometer long watercourse to the east of the Palatinate Forest and in the front Pfalz ( Rhineland -Palatinate). According to him, the former winegrower village Mußbach is named, which was incorporated in 1969 as a district in the city of Neustadt on the Wine Route.

Course

Two sources of Mußbachs spring, a few hundred meters of each other, on the northeastern slope of the high stubble head ( 567 meters ) on the forest district of Guard home on the wine route. After about 2 km of the confluence takes place. The creek, which usually leads very little water, then occurs in Silbertal over to the forest district of Bad Durkheim, before coming to a total of six kilometers reaches the area of the hamlet Neustadter Gimmeldingen in Benjental.

There he meets a tributary coming from the right. Although this is only 2 miles long, but much richer in water. It rises, taken in Loos wells, high on the northern edge of the 553 meter high Weinbiets on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest. From 1952 to 1988 spring water was pumped up from the well as drinking water for Ausflugslokal Weinbiethaus.

The combined stream fed in Gimmeldinger valley a small reservoir that serves the tourism, and then reaches the hilly vineyard landscape on both sides of the German Wine Route. There he first flows through Gimmeldingen and then Mußbach. Finally, it opens two kilometers southeast of the residential development from the left in the Rehbach, the northern tributary of Speyer Bach.

History

Name

Already in the Middle High German was the watercourse and after him also traversed by the lower reaches of place " Muosbach " what "Bach Mossy " meaning " marshy " means something like; for watercourses that were natural, then meandered around and caused a high water table.

Mills

In the Middle Ages the water of the stream for the operation of twelve mills whose locations are connected via a Mühlenwanderweg served. These include but are listed here from the Mußbachquelle towards the mouth:

• According to their position at the top mill Mußbach was called Upper Mill.
• Today's forest house Benjental was formerly a Wappenschmiede that the Mußbachwassers helped himself to drive the iron hammer. So far, all mills and engines were on Deidesheimer district.
• The Lower Mill in the extreme northwest Gimmeldingens was built in 1718 and has been a major fire in 1886 ruined.
• The Platsche mill was built in 1821 and decommissioned in 1900. A millstone is obtained.
• Default building is the best preserved Talmuhle which was converted into a restaurant.
• Already at the time of Frankish lay to the south of the church of St. Nicholas on the boundary of the former village Lobloch a mill which is held by historians for the nucleus of the village, which has merged in 1751 in the neighboring Gimmeldingen.
• The Wiedemannsche mill in the extreme southeast Gimmeldingens on the border with Mußbach was until the early 20th century in operation and was then converted into a winery. The former mill wheel could still be seen in the 1960s.

Ecology

In the 19th and until the second half of the 20th century, the river was used as a sewer. He is now partially renatured, but partly also piped.