The Palatinate Forest in southwest Germany and northeast France (delineated in red)
Geography
Location
Palatinate, Germany
Administration
Established
1998
Website
www.pfaelzerwald.de
The Palatinate Forest (German: Pfälzerwald[ˈpfɛltsɐvalt]ⓘ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park (German: Naturpark Pfälzerwald) covering 1,771 km2 and its highest elevation is the Kalmit (672.6 m).
Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.
The PalatinateForest (German: Pfälzerwald [ˈpfɛltsɐvalt] ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany...
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The Upper Palatinate (German: Oberpfalz, pronounced [ˈoːbɐˌp͡falt͡s] , Bavarian: Obapfoiz, Owerpfolz) is an administrative district in the east of Bavaria...
German side belongs to the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, it stretches about 100 km (330,000 ft) from the Bavarian Forest in the south up to the Fichtel...
The PalatinateForest Nature Park (German: Naturpark Pfälzerwald) lies in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and borders on France. The nature...
the Bavarian Forest, the Vosges, the Eifel, the Jura Mountains, the Swabian Jura, the Franconian Jura, the Polish Jura, the PalatinateForest, the Teutoburg...
[ˌkaɪzɐsˈlaʊtɐn] ; Palatinate German: Lautre) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the PalatinateForest. The...
sub-Mediterranean forest habitats. Broadleaf forests (Teutoburger Forest, Germany) Conifer in the montane parts Inside the conifer forests (Black Forest, Germany)...
in France, far above the Col de Saverne separating them from the PalatinateForest in Germany. The latter area logically continues the same Vosges geologic...
vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region. Landau lies east of the Palatinateforest, on the German Wine Route. It contains the...
to Kallstadt in the PalatinateForest. St. Salvator, a Lutheran congregation belonging to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. The Church is the oldest...
which lay in the South Palatine part of the Wasgau region within the PalatinateForest. In local folklore he is known as Hans Trapp or, more rarely, Hans...
state of Rhineland Palatinate in southwestern Germany. The range is some 85 kilometres (53 mi) long and lies within the PalatinateForest (Pfälzerwald). Its...
the north, it is naturally extended beyond the German border by the PalatinateForest massif. It is bordered to the west by the Lorraine Plateau [fr] and...
Felsenland) (419.6m), hill near Busenberg in the Wasgau, PalatinateForest, Rhineland-Palatinate Heidenberg (Siegen) (309.7m), hill in the borough of Siegen...
accompanying drink in the wine region of the Palatinate is usually a dry white wine, and in the Palatinateforest to the west, preferably a local beer.[citation...
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