The Floßbach (also Floßgraben or Floßkanal, formerly Flotzbach or Flotzbachgraben) is a man-made

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

long. It is an

orographically Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as ''oreography'', ''orology'' or ''oreology'') falls within the broader discip ...

right-hand

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

of the

Isenach The Isenach is a left tributary of the Rhine in the northeastern Palatine region of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is nearly long. Course The Isenach rises in the northern Palatinate Forest, southwest of Carlsberg Hertlingshausen. Its source in ...

in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It was built in the 18th century to enable the

timber rafting Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest mean ...

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References

Literature

* Wolfgang Kunz: ''Die Trift auf dem „Floßbach“.'' In: Derselbe, Henning Cramer, Wolfgang Fluck: ''Maxdorf. Geschichte und Natur.'' Knecht-Verlag, Landau, 2014, , 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, , pp. 292–302 (covers timber rafting in the Palatinate in general; for the Floßbach see p. 293).

External links

Wasserwirtschaftliches Gesamtkonzept für das Einzugsgebiet von Isenach und Eckbach
(pdf; 2.9 MB) Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate 1Flossbach Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Rivers of Germany {{RhinelandPalatinate-river-stub