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The Eckbachweiher in the Palatine
The Eckbachweiher is known to biologists as a Rückzugsgebiet for native dragonflies and also offers a habitat for endangered species, like the
Leiningerland
The Leiningerland is an historic landscape in the Palatinate region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after an aristocratic family that used to be the most important in the region, the House of Leiningen.
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in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a ''woog
A ''woog'' (from ''wâc'', a Middle High German hydronym) is the local name for a body of still water in parts of southwest Germany. A ''woog'' may be of natural origin or manmade.
Distribution of the name
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'' on the Eckbach
The Eckbach (locally known as the Eck and in the lower reaches also as Neugraben or Leiniger Graben) is a small river in the northeastern Palatinate and the southeastern Rhenish Hesse. It is slightly over long.
Name
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stream. A ''woog'' is the name given to still bodies of water, especially man-made reservoirs, in southwest Germany.
Geography
The Eckbachweiher lies in the northeast of the Palatinate Forest at a height of about 180 metres in the parish of Neuleiningen-Tal, which belongs to thecollective municipality
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
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of Grünstadt-Land
Grünstadt-Land is a former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Bad Dürkheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was situated on the north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, around the town Grünstadt, which ...
. The lake runs in a southwest to northwest direction south of and parallel to the road up the valley, which is identical with the Landesstraße 520 from Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to:
Places
* Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark
** Carlsberg station, its train station
* Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses
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to Kleinkarlbach
Kleinkarlbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality is a winegr ...
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Dimensions
The length of the reservoir is 560 metres and its maximum width is 32 metres.History
The reservoir was laid out in the Middle Ages in as the water reservoir for two mills below it. In those days it was rather smaller. In the 1870s the dam was raised in order to increase the volume of the lake. As a result, the Eckbach valley was better protected from flooding, which could occur especially in spring after heavy winter snows. The Eckbachweiher also ensured the operation of the two mills in periods of drought. The upper mill (''Obermühle''), immediately below the dam, has fallen down. The “rock mill” (''Felsenmühle'') a little way to the east of it is larger and well restored. It is a complex of buildings grouped around a cobbled inner courtyard and operated as a hotel-restaurant.Sights and culture
The Eckbachweiher is known to biologists as a Rückzugsgebiet for native dragonflies and also offers a habitat for endangered species, like the Hairy Dragonfly
''Brachytron'' is a monotypic genus of European dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae containing the hairy dragonfly (''Brachytron pratense''), also known as the hairy hawker or spring hawker.
Description
The hairy dragonfly is named for its hairy ...
(Brachytron pratense). – Kapitel ''D.2.2.5 Planungseinheit 5: Leininger Sporn''
The Eckbach Mill Trail, which links the 23 mills of the region, some of which are restored, also runs along the Eckbachweiher. Some two kilometres east of the lake, left and right above the exit to the Eckbach valley into the Upper Rhine Plain lie on two foothills of the Haardt
The Haardt () is a range of wooded, sandstone hills in the state of Rhineland Palatinate in southwestern Germany. The range is some long and lies within the Palatinate Forest (''Pfälzerwald''). Its highest point is the Kalmit, near Maikammer
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the castles of Neuleiningen
Neuleiningen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
On a foothill near the northe ...
and Battenberg
Battenberg or Battenburg may refer to:
Places
* Battenberg (Eder), a town in Hesse, Germany
* Battenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Battenberg Hill, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
People
* Batten ...
, which used to belong to the House of Leiningen and guarded the entrance to the valley. At Altleiningen Castle
Altleiningen is a castle in the Palatinate Forest in Germany. It lies in the parish of Altleiningen in the county of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Location
Whilst the parish of Altleiningen lies at 300 metr ...
, the former main residence of the family, located three kilometres southwest of the lake, performances by a local theatre company, the '' Burgspiele Altleiningen'', are held during the summer months.
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