Palatinate Forest
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The Palatinate Forest, 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 desi
Hardenburg Castle near Bad Dürkheim
Lake Eiswoog, Ramsen
St. James' Church, ruins of Höningen Abbey (1120–1569)
Highest peak: Kalmit (673 m)
The Franco-German Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve was created in 1998 as the first UNESCO trans-boundary biosphere reserve in Europe. The German part became the 12th of 16 biosphere r
Palatinate Forest
…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 Palatinate Forest, together with the Vosges south of the French border, from which it has no morphological separation, is part of a single central…
Biosphere house in Fischbach near Dahn
Platforms on the Baumwipfel Path
View from the Baumwipfel Path looking down
Biosphere experience path in Fischbach