Rehbach (Palatinate)

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The Rehbach is a 29 km long river in Rhineland -Palatinate and a left tributary of the Rhine. It gets its water from Speyerbach its left tributary he is.

Course

The Rehbach does not have a source, but separates into Neustadt on the Wine Route Winzinger Wassergescheid with 1/ 3 of the water from the Speyerbach left. After leaving the Neustadt district of Rehbach by initially flows in an easterly, then in a north-easterly direction to the western part of the Rhine valley. He touches the municipalities Haßloch, Bohl - Termin Schiffer city, Limburgerhof and Neuhofen. Between Altrip and Ludwigshafen it flows from the left in the Upper Rhine.

Inflows

The most important tributaries of the left Rehbachs are the Mußbach, which flows between the same village and Neustadter Haßloch, and Steinbach, flowing above Schiffer city in the Rehbach. Strongest right tributary is the Ranschgraben. This is how the Rehbach itself from the Speyerbach forth - and north of Speyerdorf - and flows east of Limburgerhof Rehhütte in the Rehbach after he has these several hundred meters before even crosses under at Limburgerhof Kohlhof.

History

The Rehbach has already been derived in the Middle Ages in the then village Winzingen, which is a district of Neustadt today from the Speyerbach to the left. In the area of Hassloch and Iggelheim it was divided into about 8 km in length in two parallel arms. They provided the drive water for the local mills and sawmills. At the southern arm, the actual Rehbach, three plants are still preserved. Below Bohl -Iggelheim the Rehbach receives over the Steinbach additionally the water of 10 acres Niederwies pond, a flooded gravel pit renatured.

In 1981, large parts of the carrying of Speyerbach and Rehbach area between Neustadt and Speyer, which are not subject to structural use, declared a conservation area Rehbach - Speyerbach.