The Erlenbach () is a river in the

Palatinate Forest The Palatinate Forest (; ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a List of landscapes in Rhineland-Palatinate, low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate (region), Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatina ...

, in the ( Palatinate region of

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. It is the strongest headwater of the Speyerbach, which is the largest river in the Anterior Palatinate. The Erlenbach rises at a height of about 460 m on the eastern slope of the Eschkopf (609 m), hence on the eastern side of the Palatinate watershed. If flows generally to the north and after only 5 km flows into the Speyerbach shortly after the latter's nominal spring at Speyerbrunn. Hydrologically speaking, the origin of the Erlenbach is the real origin of the Speyerbach. The distance from the Erlenbach's spring to the Speyerbach's confluence with the

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is 60 km. The drainage basin of the Erlenbach/Speyerbach system measures 596 km².

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Large Online Project "Speyerbach"
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Elmstein Valley
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