The Helmbach is an long

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

Speyerbach The Speyerbach is a left tributary of the Rhine in the Palatinate part of Rhineland-Palatinate. In Speyer, the river split into ''Gießhübelbach'' and ''Woogbach''. The Woogbach changes its name to ''Nonnenbach'', then flows into Gießhübe ...

stream in the Palatine Forest in the German state of

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Course

The stream rises northwest of the Taubensuhl Forester's Lodge (''Forsthauses Taubensuhl'') and flows initially in a northeasterly direction to the ''Geiswiese'' meadow. There it is joined on the left by the

Blattbach The Blattbach is a tributary of the Helmbach, roughly long, in the Palatinate Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It rises in the central part of the forest and flows eastwards before discharging into the ''Helmbach''. The Blatt ...

, which rises on the north slopes of the high Blattberg hill, and then heads in an easterly to northeasterly direction. After another 2 km the Helmbach passes the woodland hotel at Hornesselwiese, which was burnt down in November 2002 and, after being rebuilt in 2010, has been opened again as a woodland restaurant since January 2011 . There the stream is joined by the ''Grobsbach'' and, further on, the Iggelbach empties into it from the left. After a total of the Helmbach reaches another

forester's lodge A forester's lodge, forester's house or forester's hut is the residence of a forester, usually one who is in charge of a forest district. History Woodcutters' huts are as old as forestry itself. To begin with, temporary accommodation was usually ...

, the ''Forsthaus Helmbach''. Here it is joined on the right by the ''Kohlbach'', which has been impounded to create the reservoir of

Helmbachweiher The Helmbachweiher is a lake in the central Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies near the Helmbach stream about two kilometres from its confluence with the Speyerbach on the forest estates of the municipalities of ...

a little to the east. The Helmbach itself discharges into the Speyerbach at the eponymous village of Helmbach after about . Here there is a halt on the

Kuckucksbähnel The Cuckoo Railway (german: Kuckucksbähnel, literally "Little Cuckoo Railway"), in its early days the Elmstein Valley Railway (''Elmsteiner Talbahn''), is a 12.97 kilometre long branch line in the central Palatine Forest, which runs through the r ...

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Tributaries

* Trockendeichbach (''left''), *

(''left''), * Grobsbach (''right''), * Hunzelbach (''right''), * Frechenbach (''right''), * Iggelbach (''left''), * Kohlbach (''right''), {{cvt, 4.98, km

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Rivers and lakes of the Palatinate Forest Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate Rivers of Germany

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Tributaries

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