Moosbach (Lauter)
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| Ritterstein by the source of the Moosbach | |
| Location | Südwestpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate,  Germany |
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| Reference no. | DE: 23726 |
| Length | 6.60 km [1] |
| Source | in the Dahner Felsenland southwest of the Kaletschkopf 49°07′51″N 7°42′52″E / 49.130708°N 7.714385°ECoordinates: 49°07′51″N 7°42′52″E / 49.130708°N 7.714385°E |
| Source height | 289 m above sea level (NN) |
| Mouth | northwest of Dahn into the Wieslauter 49°09′56″N 7°45′22″E / 49.165575°N 7.756174°E |
| Mouth height | 206 m above sea level (NN) |
| Descent | 83 m |
| Basin | Rhine |
| Progression | Lauter → Rhine → North Sea |
| Catchment | 13.605 km² [1] |
The Moosbach is a stream, a good 6½ kilometres long, in the South Palatine part of the Wasgau region in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a right tributary of the Lauter, which, here in its upper reaches, is still known as the Wieslauter.
Geography
Course
The Moosbach rises at a height of 289 m above NN in the central Wasgau in the region known as the Dahner Felsenland, southwest of the Kaletschkopf hill (453.1 m above NN) in a woodland within the Moosbachtal Nature reserve. Its source is a spring called the Moosbrunnen. It initially presses northwards through a narrow, wooded valley between the Red Rock (Roten Felsen) on the left and the Kaletschkopf on the right. At the Moosbach-Halde it changes direction to run northeast and then fills a small pond south of the Moosbachhütte hut and shortly thereafter the rather larger and very scenic pond of Kranzwoog. Very gradually it turns towards the east. It runs along the southern slopes of the Lehmberg (386.2 m above NN). South of the Wolfdell it passes through two more small ponds in succession and its then fed from the right by the Seibertsbach stream coming from the south. About 300 metres downstream the Moosbach bends to the left and now flows in a northerly direction west of the Mehrsberg (328.2 m above NN). Shortly afterwards it passes through the Neudahner Weiher, which lies on the southeastern slopes of the Sägköpfchen (317.9 m above NN). To the east, not far from this lake, rises Neudahn Castle. The Moosbach empties from the right into the Wieslauter at a height of 206 m above NN.
Tributaries
- Seibertsbach (right), 4.2 km
References
- 1 2 Geoexplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Authority (Wasserwirtschaftsverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz) (retrieved 11 March 2012)