Floßbach (Isenach)

The Floßbach (also Floßgraben or Floßkanal, formerly Flotzbach or Flotzbachgraben) is a manmade river, a good 16 kilometres long, and an orographically right-hand tributary of the Isenach, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built in the 18th century to enable the timber rafting of firewood.

Floßbach
Mouth of the Stechgraben on the Floßbach
(Floßbach from l to r)
Location
LocationGermany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Anterior Palatinate
Reference no.DE: 2391488
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationDiversion: Northeast of Schifferstadt to the left from the Rehbach
  coordinates49°24′02″N 8°23′30″E
  elevationca. 95 m above sea level (NHN) [1]
Mouth 
  location
East of Lambsheim from the right into the Isenach
  coordinates
49°30′24″N 8°18′18″E
  elevation
ca. 92 m above sea level (NHN) [1]
Length16.04 km [2]
Basin size169.328 km² [2]
Basin features
ProgressionIsenachRhineNorth Sea
Tributaries 
  leftSchwabenbach, Stechgraben

References

  1. Topographical map, 1:25,000 series
  2. Wasserwirtschaftsverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz

Literature

  • Wolfgang Kunz: Die Trift auf dem „Floßbach“. In: Ders., Henning Cramer, Wolfgang Fluck: Maxdorf. Geschichte und Natur. Knecht-Verlag, Landau, 2014, ISBN 978-3-939427-19-3, 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, ISBN 3-412-10904-5, pp. 292–302 (covers timber rafting in the Palatinate in general; for the Floßbach see p. 293).


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