Fuchsbach (Queich)

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Fuchsbach / Druslach
Former bathing place (Palatine "Buweabloss", High German "Bubenablass" = derivative for boys) on the Fuchsbach

Former bathing place ( Palatine "Buweabloss", High German "Bubenablass" = derivative for boys) on the Fuchsbach

Data
Water code DE : 2377324
location Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Southern Palatinate
River system Rhine
Drain over Rhine  → North Sea
Derivation to the left from the Queich at Hochstadt
49 ° 12 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 50 ″  E
Source height 126  m above sea level NHN
muzzle from the left in the Lingenfelder Altrhein Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '25 "  N , 8 ° 21' 33"  E 49 ° 14 '25 "  N , 8 ° 21' 33"  E
Mouth height 103  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 23 m
Bottom slope 2.3 ‰
length 10 km
Communities Hochstadt , Zeiskam , Lustadt , Westheim , Lingenfeld

The Fuchsbach , which is divided into Druslach and Hofgraben on the lower reaches , is an approximately 10 km long left-hand derivative of the Queich in the southern Palatinate (state of Rhineland-Palatinate ), which for centuries served to irrigate vegetable fields.

course

The Fuchsbach is derived from the Queich in the south of the Hochstadt district to the northeast. After the passage from Zeiskam , a third of the amount of water is branched off to the left as a Hofgraben , two thirds flow as the Druslach to the east. This is dammed in the south of Lingenfeld to about 100 m; The Lochmühle used to be operated with the backwater . 1 km to the east, the Druslach flows into the Lingenfelder Altrhein at the level of the Rheininsel Grün , which is connected to the Rhine above and below .

The 8 km long Hofgraben reaches the Lustadt community northeast of Zeiskam and then flows north parallel to the Druslach through Westheim and Lingenfeld. There it flows 1 km north of the Druslach into the same old Rhine loop as this one.

history

The Fuchsbach was also known locally as "Gnadenwasser" . A local legend reports that an old mother from Zeiskam gave the Count Palatine Ludwig III in 1428 . brought a basket of carrots as a present . In gratitude, it was allowed to ask for a “grace” . The little mother is said to have expressed the wish for an irrigation opening from the Queich "the size of a fox hole " for his place of residence . This foxhole, carved in stone and set into the left bank of the Queich, gave the new watercourse its name.

The Fuchsbach / Druslach / Hofgraben irrigation system, from which the communities north and below Zeiskam also benefited and to which the aforementioned Lochmühle owed its existence, survived until 1954, when irrigation of the fields was introduced. A replica of the fox hole is exhibited in the Zeiskamer Sängerheim Alter Bauernhof .

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