The Falkensteinerbach is a river of the the Vosges of North in the east of the France which runs in the Département of the Low-Rhine. It is an affluent of the Zinsel of North, therefore a tributary of a tributary of the the Rhine by Zinsel of North and the Moder.

Etymology

Falkensteinerbach owes its name, like much of brooks of the Vosgean solid mass, with the mountain of which it goes down, the Falkenstein, finished suffix Bach , the German brook. He wants to thus mean the brook of the Falkenstein , the brook of the rock of the falcon.

History

Nowadays, one does not hear any more the commérage lavender fields nor the noise of the trip hammers actuated by the paddle wheels. The mills with grains also disappeared, Falkensteinerbach became a quiet river for the fishermen, populated trouts and classified in first category.

Falkensteinbach lent itself perfectly to the installation of forging mills as to Éguelshardt. The river could easily be controlled by dams and locks, and downstream from the factory one arranged sometimes ponds in order to create water falls increasing the hydraulic power but also to have water reserves for stage at the periods of drynesses. Falkenstein supplied the trip hammer and the forging mill of Niederbronn-the-Baths.

In 2002, the commune of Reichshoffen was authorized to reject into the brook treated water of the current purification plant.

Geography

The brook moves the North-West towards south-east. It takes its source in the heights close to Éguelshardt, in the Lorraine sector of the the Vosges of North. Falkensteinerbach crosses in all its length the town of Niederbronn-the-Baths and is thrown after a course of 28,32 km in the Zinsel of North to Uttenhoffen.

This small river curves between the Vosgean hills of the Grand Wintersberg and the Reisberg.

Fauna and flora

• the yellow Iris

• the serpentine Gomphe
• the Brown trout (Salmo trutta fario)
• the crayfish with red legs (Crayfish crayfish)
• the floating Potamot
• the Oenathe of the running water

See too

External bonds

• Site of the PIKE PERCH

• Flows characteristic of Falkensteinerbach
• Flows characteristic of Zinsel of north