Moosbrunnen (Kaiserslautern)

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Moss fountain
Moosbrunnen KL.jpg
Moosbrunnen (2017)
location
Country or region Kaiserslautern ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
Coordinates 49 ° 23 ′ 13 "  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 26"  E
height 361  m above sea level NHN
Moosbrunnen (Kaiserslautern) (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Moss fountain
Moss fountain
Location of the source
geology
Mountains Palatinate Forest
Source type Layer source
Exit type collected source
Hydrology
River system Rhine
Receiving waters MooswiesAschbachMoosalbSchwarzbachBliesSaarMoselleRhineNorth Sea

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 26 ″  E

The Moosbrunnen is a spring near Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The source is located six kilometers south of Kaiserslautern in the Mölschbach district above the Mooswieser valley at an altitude of 361  m above sea level. NHN am Hirschsprung between the Aschbacherhof and Mölschbach . The spring is placed in a well.

Natural allocation

The Moosbrunnen belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area , which is classified as a third-order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook on the natural structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its follow-up publications . If you look at the internal structure of the natural area , the Moosbrunnen belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest and here to the northwestern part of the Frankenweide .

In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the moss 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: Frankenweide

Traffic and walking

North past the Hirschsprung in the Mooswieser Tal, Kreisstraße 4 leads , which connects the Aschbacherhof in the west and Mölschbach in the east. The “red cross” hiking trail ( Weiherfelderhof to the Hirschsprung hiking car park) leads past a little above and to the south . The TSG Kaiserslautern's hiking hut is located directly below the source on the K 4 . The best way to get to the source is via the hiking hut.

Others

The spring has water all year round. It can be removed without any problems, it does not contain any suspended matter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LANIS: Moosbrunnen 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