The Floßbach (also Floßgraben or Floßkanal, formerly Flotzbach or Flotzbachgraben) is a man-made

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

long. It is an

orographically Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as ''oreography'', ''orology,'' or ''oreology'') falls within the broader disci ...

right-hand

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''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 into which they ...

of the

Isenach The Isenach is a left tributary of the Rhine in the northeastern Palatine region of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is nearly long. Course The Isenach rises in the northern Palatinate Forest, southwest of Carlsberg Hertlingshausen. Its source i ...

in the German state of

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. It was built in the 18th century to enable the

timber rafting Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest mea ...

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References

Literature

* Wolfgang Kunz: ''Die Trift auf dem „Floßbach“.'' In: Derselbe, Henning Cramer, Wolfgang Fluck: ''Maxdorf. Geschichte und Natur.'' Knecht-Verlag, Landau, 2014, , S. 147–165. * Bernd-Stefan Grewe: ''Der versperrte Wald. Ressourcenmangel in der bayerischen Pfalz (1814–1870)'' (= Umwelthistorische Forschungen, Bd. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna, 2004, , pp. 292–302 (covers timber rafting in the Palatinate in general; for the Floßbach see p. 293).

External links

Wasserwirtschaftliches Gesamtkonzept für das Einzugsgebiet von Isenach und Eckbach
(pdf; 2.9 MB) Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate 1Flossbach Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Rivers of Germany {{RhinelandPalatinate-river-stub