The Mußbach is a stream , nearly 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long, in the eastern Palatinate Forest and in the Anterior Palatinate region in the south of German state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The former village of Mußbach [ de ; eo ; nl ] (annexed by Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1969) was named after it.
7-595: The two springs of the Mußbach rise a few hundred metres apart on the northeastern slope of the Hoher Stoppelkopf (567 metres) in the forest district of Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse . They converge after about 2 km (1.2 mi). The stream, which usually carries very little water, enters the Silbertal ("Silver Valley") in the forest district of Deidesheim . After 6 km (3.7 mi) it reaches
14-656: The 20th century, the stream was used as an open sewer . It is now partially restored , but also partially canalized. Hoher Stoppelkopf The Hohe Stoppelkopf , locally just called the Stoppelkopf , is a 566.2-metre-high hill in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It lies 3 km north of the small town of Lambrecht . Together with the Drachenfels (577 m) to
21-669: The Neustadt suburb of Gimmeldingen in the Benjental valley. Here, it is joined by an unnamed right tributary. The tributary is only 2 km (1.2 mi) long, but carries much more water. Its origin is the Loosenbrunnen springs on the north flank of the 533-metre-high Weinbiet on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest. Between 1952 and 1988, water from the spring was pumped up and used as drinking water in
28-694: The local bar of Weinbiethaus . The combined stream feeds a small reservoir serving tourism in the Gimmeldingen Valley and then reaches the vines landscape flanking the German Wine Route . Here, it flows through the Neustadt suburbs of Gimmeldingen and Mußbach. The confluence with the Rehbach , the northern tributary of the Speyerbach , is about 2 km (1.2 mi) southeast of this residential area. In Middle High German ,
35-697: The northwest and the Stabenberg (496 m) to the east, the Stoppelkopf lies on the watershed between the catchment areas of two Palatine Rhine tributaries, the Speyerbach (south) and the Isenach (north). The two longest tributaries of the Mußbach rise on the Stoppelkopf; both later empty into the left mouth branch of the Speyerbach, the Rehbach . About 110 metres north-northeast of
42-525: The stream and the village named after it were called Muosbach , meaning something like swampy brook , because natural streams meander and cause a high groundwater level. In the Middle Ages , the water of the stream was used to drive twelve mills . Their sites are now connected by the Mühlenwanderweg ( Mill Trail ). Among these are, in downstream order: In the 19th and first half of
49-816: The summit of the Hoher Stoppfelkopf a hunting lodge was built in 1900, the Hermannshütte (also called the Emil Leidner Hut ), which is unmanaged. At the top a summit cross was erected in 2003 by the Deidesheim Branch of the Palatine Forest Club . About 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of the Stoppelkopf lies the deer conservation park, the Kurpfalz Park , which is accessible from Wachenheim on
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