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Vinxtbach
The mouth of the Vinxtbach
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CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
Reference no.DE: 27174
Physical characteristics
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 • locationSouth-southwest of Schalkenbach-Obervinxt and east of the Adert
 • coordinates50°28′57″N 7°07′09″E / 50.482378°N 7.119249°E / 50.482378; 7.119249
 • elevation397 m above sea level (NHN)
Mouth 
 • location
Near Rheineck Castle between Bad Breisig and Brohl-Lützing into the Rhine
 • coordinates
50°30′05″N 7°18′42″E / 50.501278°N 7.311694°E / 50.501278; 7.311694
 • elevation
64 m above sea level (NHN)
Length19.11 km (11.87 mi)[1]
Basin size
45.472 km2 (17.557 sq mi)[1]
Basin features
Progression‹See Tfd› Rhine→ North Sea

The Vinxtbach is a stream of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is around 19 km (12 mi) long, rises south-southwest of Schalkenbach-Obervinxt and east of the Adert and discharges into the River Rhine near Rheineck Castle between Bad Breisig and Brohl-Lützing.

The name Vinxt is derived from the Latin term finis, which means "border". In ancient Rome, the Vinxtbach marked the border between the provinces Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. In times of the Middle Ages, it was the border between the duchies of Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine. Today the Vinxtbach forms a dialect boundary, the "Vinxtbach line" (Vinxtbachlinie): north of the Vinxtbach the Ripuarian dialects are spoken, south of it, the Moselle Franconian dialects.

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Caerosi

opposite bank of the Rhine in the east. To the east of Neidenbach, the Vinxtbach, a small river flowing eastwards to the Rhine, marked the boundary between

Lower Germanic Limes

North Sea. It then followed the course of the Rhine and ended at the Vinxtbach in present-day Niederbreisig, a quarter in the town of Bad Breisig, the

Limes (Roman Empire)

chain of camps, that ran from the North Sea (Katwijk-Brittenburg camp) to Vinxtbach (opposite Rheinbrohl fort on the Upper Germanic Limes), forming the border

Eifel dialects

Kronenburg, Blankenheim, Nettersheim, Altenahr and Ahrweiler along the Vinxtbach to its confluence with the Rhine at Bad Breisig. The old Roman border

Classis Germanica

responsible for monitoring the entire Rhine from the confluence of the Vinxtbach and its navigable tributaries as well as the Zuiderzee and North Sea coastlines

Eifel

Lieser Kleine Kyll Alf Üßbach Sammetbach Elzbach Nette Nitzbach Brohlbach Vinxtbach Ahr Schaafbach Ahbach Trierbach Dreisbach Armuthsbach Adenauerbach Liersbach

Ahrweiler (district)

"king's field") was founded, later to become the city of Remagen. The Vinxtbach, a narrow brook and an affluent of the Rhine, was defined as the borderline

Ahrgau

Ahrgau bordered on the Mayenfeldgau on the line from Rheineck up the Vinxtbach stream to the Hohe Acht; in the west it bordered on the Eifelgau and Zülpichgau