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Floßbach (Isenach)

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Reference no.
  
DE: 2391488

Country
  
Germany

River system
  
Rhine

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Location
  
Germany Rhineland-Palatinate Anterior Palatinate

Main source
  
Diversion: Northeast of Schifferstadt to the left from the Rehbach ca. 95 m above sea level (NHN)

River mouth
  
East of Lambsheim from the right into the Isenach ca. 92 m above sea level (NHN)

Progression
  
Isenach → Rhine → North Sea

The Floßbach (also Floßgraben or Floßkanal, formerly Flotzbach or Flotzbachgraben) is a manmade river, a good 16 kilometres long, and an orographically right-hand tributary of the Isenach, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built in the 18th century to enable the timber rafting of firewood.

Contents

Map of Flo%C3%9Fbach, Germany

Literature

  • Wolfgang Kunz: Die Trift auf dem „Floßbach“. In: Ders., Henning Cramer, Wolfgang Fluck: Maxdorf. Geschichte und Natur. Knecht-Verlag, Landau, 2014, ISBN 978-3-939427-19-3, S. 147–165.
  • Bernd-Stefan Grewe: Der versperrte Wald. Ressourcenmangel in der bayerischen Pfalz (1814–1870) (= Umwelthistorische Forschungen, Bd. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna, 2004, ISBN 3-412-10904-5, pp. 292–302 (covers timber rafting in the Palatinate in general; for the Floßbach see p. 293).

    • References

    Floßbach (Isenach) Wikipedia
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