Moosbach

The Moosbach is a stream, approximately 6.6km 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, whose upper reaches are known as the Wieslauter.GeographyCourseThe Moosbach rises at a height of in the central Wasgau in the region known as the Dahner Felsenland, southwest of the Kaletschkopf hill 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. 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. Shortly afterwards it passes through the Neudahner Weiher, which lies on the southeastern slopes of the Sägköpfchen. To the east, not far from this lake, rises Neudahn Castle. The Moosbach empties from the right into the Wieslauter at a height of.