The Klingbach is a stream, just under long, in
South Palatinate
The Palatinate (german: Pfalz; Palatine German: ''Palz'') is a region of Germany. In the Middle Ages it was known as the Rhenish Palatinate (''Rheinpfalz'') and Lower Palatinate (''Unterpfalz''), which strictly speaking designated only the wes ...
,
Germany
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, and a left-hand tributary of the
Michelsbach.
Geography
Course
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The main source of the Klingbach is located in the southern
Palatine Forest, the German part of the
Wasgau, at a height of about on the northeast slope of the hill on which the ruined
Lindelbrunn Castle stands. Another, almost equally strong, source is situated a good two kilometres to the south. The two source streams converged after about three kilometres in
Silz.
The Klingbach leaves the hills in an eastern direction at
Klingenmünster
Klingenmünster is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous count ...
and crosses the
German Wine Route
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before reaching the
Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben ( German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the ...
. It flows through the western half of the plain, initially in an easterly direction, but later swinging more to the northeast. Southeast of
Rohrbach Rohrbach or Röhrbach may refer to:
Places Municipalities in Switzerland
*Rohrbach, Switzerland, in the canton of Bern
Municipalities in Germany
*Rohrbach, Bavaria, in the district of Pfaffenhofen, Bavaria
*Rohrbach, Birkenfeld, in the district o ...
it is joined on the left by the ''Kaiserbach'', almost 20 kilometres long, and above
Herxheim by the eight kilometre long ''Quodbach''.
Until the first half of the 19th century, the Klingbach emptied into a
bend of the
Upper Rhine
The Upper Rhine (german: Oberrhein ; french: Rhin Supérieur) is the section of the Rhine between Basel in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany, surrounded by the Upper Rhine Plain. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometres 170 to 529 (the ...
east of
Hördt. With the
channelization of the
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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, source2 = Rein Posteriur/Hinterrhein
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its confluence became part of the ()
Old Rhine. Today the old bend in the river is a river in its own right, called the
Michelsbach.
Municipalities along the Klingbach
*
Silz
*
Münchweiler
*
Klingenmünster
Klingenmünster is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous count ...
*
Heuchelheim-Klingen
*
Billigheim-Ingenheim
*
Steinweiler
Steinweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe a ...
*
Rohrbach Rohrbach or Röhrbach may refer to:
Places Municipalities in Switzerland
*Rohrbach, Switzerland, in the canton of Bern
Municipalities in Germany
*Rohrbach, Bavaria, in the district of Pfaffenhofen, Bavaria
*Rohrbach, Birkenfeld, in the district o ...
*
Herxheim
*
Herxheimweyher
*
Rülzheim
*
Hördt
History
Running upstream alongside the Klingbach is part of the southern section of the
Palatine Ways of St. James.
To distinguish it from other places with the name ''Münster'' ("minster"), the municipality of Klingenmünster was named after the stream.
References
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See also
*
List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
A list of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany:
A
* Aar
* Adenauer Bach
* Ahr
* Alf
* Alfbach
*Appelbach
*Asdorf
* Aubach
B
* Birzenbach
*Blattbach
* Breitenbach
* Brexbach
* Brohlbach, tributary of the Moselle
* Brohlbach, tributary of the ...
Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
South Palatinate
Rivers and lakes of the Palatinate Forest
Rivers of Germany