The Rehbach is a river in
Rhineland-Palatinate. It is about long and is a left tributary of the
Rhine.
History
upright , left , Rehbach in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse: View to the West from the bridge of the Landwehrstraße
The Rehbach does not have a source: The
Speyerbach splits on the ''Winzinger Wassergescheid'' in
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, with about 1/3 of the water going left and forming the Rehbach and the other 2/3 going right and continuing as Speyerbach. After leaving the district of Neustadt, the Rehbach flows through the western part of the
Upper Rhine Valley, initially in an easterly direction, later more northeast. It touches the municipalities of
Haßloch,
Böhl-Iggelheim,
Schifferstadt,
Limburgerhof
Limburgerhof is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 7 km southwest of Ludwigshafen.
It is known in the region because of an Agrochemical Center of the world's largest chemical company BASF, which has it ...
and
Neuhofen. Between
Altrip and
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...
, it flows into the
Upper Rhine from the left.
Tributaries
The main tributaries of the left Rehbach are Mußbach, which flows into the Rehbach between Haßloch and the
Mußbach
The Mußbach is a river, stream, nearly long, in the eastern Palatinate Forest and in the Anterior Palatinate region in the south of German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The former village of ' (annexed by Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1969) w ...
district of Neustadt, and the Steinbach, which flows into the Rehbach above Schifferstadt. The strongest right tributary is the Ranschgraben. Like the Rehbach itself, this is a tributary of the Speyerbach. It splits off from Speyerbach just north of
Speyerdorf and flows into Rehbach East of Limburgerhof-Rehhütte, after crossing below Rehbach a few hundred meters before at Limburgerhof-Kohlhof.
History
In the
Middle Ages, the water of the Rehbach was already diverted from Speyerbach in the village of
Winzingen, which today is a district of Neustadt. In the area of Haßloch and Böhl-Iggelheim, it was split into two parallel arms for about . They provided the water for the local drive
watermills and
sawmills. On the southern arm, the actual Rehbach, three mills have been preserved. Below Böhl-Iggelheim, the Steinbach flows into the Rehbach, as does the water from the
Niederwiesenweiher, a re-naturalized
gravel pit.
Since 1981, large parts of the Speyerbach and Rehbach between Neustadt and
Speyer, that were not used for industrial purposes, form the ''landscape conservation area Rehbach-Speyerbach''.
[ Regierungsbezirk ]Rheinhessen-Pfalz
Rheinhessen-Pfalz (rarely anglicized as "Rhine-Hesse-Palatinate") was one of the three ''Regierungsbezirke'' of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the south of the state. It was created in 1968 out of ''Regierungsbezirke'' Rheinhessen and ...
Decree of 30 November 1981, amended 14 July 1987
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See also
* List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
Footnotes
{{Rhine Tributaries
Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
Anterior Palatinate
Rivers of Germany
