Isenach
| Isenach | |
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Isenach bank in Erpolzheim
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| Country | Germany |
| States | Palatinate forest, Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Basin features | |
| Main source |
Diemersteiner Forest 325 m (1,066 ft) 49°28′29″N 7°59′51″E / 49.47472°N 7.99750°E |
| River mouth | Confluence with the Rhine at Bobenheim-Roxheim 49°35′40″N 8°24′46″E / 49.59444°N 8.41278°ECoordinates: 49°35′40″N 8°24′46″E / 49.59444°N 8.41278°E |
| Progression | Rhine → North Sea |
| River system | Rhine |
| Basin size | 294.924 km2 (113.871 sq mi) |
| Tributaries | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 35.84 km (22.27 mi) |
The Isenach is a left tributary of the Rhine in the northeastern Palatine region of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is nearly 36 kilometres (22 mi) long.
The Isenach rises in the northern Palatinate Forest, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of Carlsberg Hertlingshausen. Its source in the Diemerstein Forest on the southeast flank of a saddle between the peaks Krummes Eck, elevation 449 metres (1,473 ft), and Hohe Bühl, elevation 444 metres (1,457 ft), is marked with Ritterstein number 277, with the inscription "Isenach source". The first 5 kilometres (3 mi) of the river flow in a southeasterly direction. After the Isenach passes the Isenachweiher reservoir, it flows east through a valley it shares with Bundesstraße 37 Kaiserslautern-Bad Dürkheim.
In Bad Dürkheim, the Isenach breaks through the Haardt, the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, and enters the hills flanking the German Wine Road. It the flows northeast through the Upper Rhine Plain. Between Lambsheim and the Frankenthal district of Eppstein, the Isenach is joined by the Floßbach from the right.
In the city of Frankenthal, the Isenach turns northwards. It is then joined by the Fuchsbach from the left. It then flows through the suburb of Mörsch, where the Isenach is known as the Mörschbach, before passing through the southeast of Bobenheim-Roxheim into a loop of the Old Rhine known as the Silbersee, and finally discharges into the Upper Rhine 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Worms.
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