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