Bar fountain (Waldleiningen)

Beam fountain
Beam fountain (2017)
location
Country or region	District of Kaiserslautern ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
Coordinates	49 ° 23 ′ 28 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 10"  E
height	400  m above sea level NHN
Beam fountain Location of the source
geology
Mountains	middle Palatinate Forest
Source type	Layer source
Exit type	collected source
Hydrology
River system	Rhine
Receiving waters	Rambach → Mooswies → Aschbach → Moosalbe → Schwarzbach → Blies → Saar → Moselle → Rhine → North Sea

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 28 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 10"  E

The beam fountain is a contained spring on the border between Stiftswald and Kaiserslautern State Forest in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The source is located eight kilometers south-east of Kaiserslautern at the Federal Highway 48 , southwest of the departure to the county road 49 to Mölschbach between 's Small and Big Roßrück at an altitude of 400  m above sea level. NHN .

Natural allocation

The bar fountain belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area , which is classified as a third-order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . If you look at the internal structure of the natural area , the Balkenbrunnen belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest.

In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the beam fountain follows the following system:

1. Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
2. Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
3. Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
4. 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest
5. 5th order region: unknown

Traffic and walking

The federal highway 48 runs from north to south past the exit of the district road 49. There, mountain bike route 4 and the hiking trail of the Palatinate Forest Association “yellow bar” touch the main road at the Balkenbrunnen forest car park. There is a boulder (knight's stone ) with inscriptions on the road . The fountain is best reached through the square. Walk west down the valley and then, after about 50 m, go left some crumbled stone steps towards the fountain.

Others

The spring dries up and only pours a little water after extensive rainfall (as of 2017). It is said that winemakers cut their wood for their vineyard beams here. Hence the fountain got its name.

Individual evidence

1. ^ LANIS: Balkenbrunnen on a topographical map from the map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Adalbert Pemöller: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 160 Landau i. d. Palatinate. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. →  Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
3. ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier, 1989, pp. 327–359
4. ↑ State Office for Surveying and Geographic Base Information Rhineland-Palatinate: Topographical Map 1: 25,000 .-- Palatinate Forest Nature Park. In: Kaiserslautern and the surrounding area , sheet 3