Schneppenbach is a river of
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is a right tributary of the
Westerbach near
Schöllkrippen.
Name
The name ''Schneppenbach'' comes from the old words ''sneppen'' and ''bach'' , which means ''faster brook.'' The brook gave the place
Schneppenbach
Schneppenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Lan ...
its name.
See also
*
List of rivers of Bavaria
References
Rivers of Bavaria
Rivers of Germany
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