Wallhalb

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Wallhalb
also Wallhalbe, Wallalbe, Wallalb
Wallhalbtal with the water in the foreground

Wallhalbtal with the water in the foreground

Data
Water code DE : 264266
location Westrich plateau

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Schwarzbach  → Blies  → Saar  → Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source north of Mittelbrunn as Stuhlbach
49 ° 23 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height approx.  339  m above sea level NHN 
muzzle west of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen from the right in the Schwarzbach Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '9 "  N , 7 ° 33' 16"  E 49 ° 23 '9 "  N , 7 ° 33' 16"  E
Mouth height approx.  238  m above sea level NHN 
Height difference approx. 101 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.6 ‰
length 18 km
Catchment area 100.173 km²
Left tributaries Meilbächel, Schauerbach
Right tributaries Ummelsbach, Staubach, Labach, Marbach (all to Stuhlbach), Hermersbach, Brechersklamm
Reservoirs flowed through Woog at the Kneispermühle
Communities Mittelbrunn (at Stuhlbach), Oberarnbach , Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach , Hettenhausen (all at Arnbach), Wallhalben
Wallhalbtal with the community of Wallhalben

Wallhalbtal with the community of Wallhalben

The Wallhalb (as the official spelling, more rarely Wallhalbe, Wallalbe, Wallalb ) in the West Palatinate is an almost 18 km long right tributary of the Schwarzbach in Rhineland-Palatinate .

course

The Wallhalb has two source streams in the district of Kaiserslautern in the north of the Sickinger Höhe : The right one is the Stuhlbach , which at 339  m above sea level. NHN Höhe rises north of Mittelbrunn and is considered the actual source stream, the left the Arnbach , whose source is 3 km northeast near Oberarnbach . After about 10 km each and crossing into the district of Südwestpfalz , the two streams unite at the northern entrance to Wallhalben to Wallhalb, which then flows through the Sickinger Höhe in a southerly direction for about 8 km. It forms the Wallhalbtal , in which the southern part of the Mühlenweg runs. The elevations that line the rather narrow valley decrease from 425 to 350 m. After the Wallhalb has taken in the Schauerbach , its strongest tributary, 2.5 km before the end of its course , it reaches the wide Schwarzbachtal 1 km west of the residential development of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen and flows into the Schwarzbach from the right at a height of about 238 m .

history

In the Frankish period, the Wall half became a documented set out border waters: As 843 in Verdun that of Charlemagne created empire was divided by his grandson, the westernmost in this region of the Wall half middle part of the empire fell as Lotharingien of Lothar I , the easternmost Part went to Ludwig the German as East Franconia .

Sights and culture

Attractions

Ruins of the Verena Chapel in Mittelbrunn

The middle Wallhalbtal is shown on maps as a particularly scenic route .

The sights of the area are listed in the article about the Mühlenweg . To them, for example, include Verena chapel near the chair Bach source as well as a number of historic mills , especially the Kneisper- and Rossel mill . The latter presents a working mill wheel for display purposes .

Culture

The following poem in Palatinate dialect was awarded a prize in 1995 at the Sickinger dialect poet contest , which the then Wallhalben community had created every two years and which the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community continues after the municipal merger (2014) .

Wallhalbtal (by Rolf Büssecker )
Wallhalbtal
klä un narrow
Miehleland
hardly known.
Silent woods
Grumberry fields
ald culture
A lot of nature.
Aemol do -
hiegezoh
Wallhalbtal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000.
  2. ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ↑ The General Map 1: 200,000, No. 12, Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Ostfildern 2004.