Palatinate Forest

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Biosphere Reserve Palatinate Forest - Vosges du Nord

The Palatinate Forest (German: Pfälzerwald) is the biggest coherent forest of Europe. It lies in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after the Palatinate region, inwhich it is located. The Palatinate Forest covers 1,771 km². Its highest elevation is the Kalmit, 673 m, near Edenkoben. Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO Biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord.

North of the Palatinate Forest is the northern Palatinate extensive hilly landscape (Nordpfaelzer Bergland) with its highest point, the Donnersberg. South are the northern Vosges Mountains in France.

The eastern end of the Forest are named Haardt, adjacent to it is the Palatinate wine growing region with the German Wine Route that stretches through this region.

West of Kaiserslautern is the marsh lowland of Landstuhl.

The Palatinate Forest is divided into 3 countrysides:

The northern Palatinate Forest, bounded by the northern Palatinate extensive hilly landscape and reaching southwards to a line from Kaiserslautern to Bad Duerkheim

The middle Palatinate Forest from the stream Isenach and the line Kaiserslautern - Bad Duerkheim to the stream Queich and the line Pirmasens - Landau

The southern Palatinate Forest, the so called Wasgau, from the stream Queich and the line Pirmasens - Landau to the french borderline in the south.