The Floßbach, called the Landgraben in its upper course where, to distinguish it from other streams with the
same name, it is also qualified by being referred to as the ''Grünstädter'' or ''Grünstadter'' Landgraben, is an 8.1-kilometre-long
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
and an
orographically left-hand
headstream
The headwater of a river or stream is the geographical point of its beginning, specifically where surface runoff water begins to accumulate into a flowing channel of water. A river or stream into which one or many tributary rivers or streams flo ...
of the
Eckbach in the northern part of the
Anterior Palatinate
The Palatinate (; ; Palatine German: ''Palz''), or the Rhenish Palatinate (''Rheinpfalz''), is a historical region of Germany. The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (''Rheinla ...
in the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) 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 sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
. The stream runs entirely on the territory of the town of
Grünstadt
Grünstadt () is a town in the Bad Dürkheim (district), Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – but is noneth ...
and the two villages of
Obersülzen und
Dirmstein that belong to the collective municipality of
Grünstadt-Land
Grünstadt-Land is a former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Bad Dürkheim (district), district of Bad Dürkheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was situated on the north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, around th ...
.
References
Literature
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External links
OSM: ''Verlauf des Floßbachs''
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Anterior Palatinate
Bad Dürkheim (district)
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