Breitenbach (Speyerbach)

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Breitenbach
The Breitenbach near the mill well

The Breitenbach near the mill well

Data
Water code DE : 237834
location Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
River system Rhine
Drain over Speyerbach  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the central Palatinate Forest in the Dreibrunnental
49 ° 23 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 22 ″  E
Source height 336  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Breitenstein in the Speyerbach Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '42 "  N , 8 ° 0' 7"  E 49 ° 20 '42 "  N , 8 ° 0' 7"  E
Mouth height 194  m above sea level NN
Height difference 142 m
Bottom slope 21 ‰
length 6.7 km
Catchment area 13.228 km²

The Breitenbach is an almost seven kilometer long left and northwest tributary of the Speyerbach .

geography

course

The water of the gold fountain (right) flows into the Breitenbach (left)

The Breitenbach rises in the central Palatinate Forest in the Dreibrunnental and flows south. It almost continuously forms the boundary of the municipalities of Elmstein and Esthal . On the way he passes, among other things, the gold fountain . After about ten kilometers, it flows into the Speyerbach at the level of the hamlet of Breitenstein . The trifts there are classified as cultural monuments; The ruins of Breitenstein Castle are also in the immediate vicinity of the estuary .

Tributaries

  • Finster-Breitenbach ( right ), 1.3 km
  • Big Schwaben Bach ( right ), 1.7 km

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Geoportal Wasser Rheinland-Pfalz