The Breitenberg near
Sankt Martin in the
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
county of
Südliche Weinstraße
Südliche Weinstraße ( pfl, Siedlischi Woischdrooß; en, "Southern Wine Route") is a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Südwestpfalz, Bad Dürkheim, the district-f ...
is a hill, ,
and subpeak of the
Kalmit
The Kalmit is the highest peak in the Palatinate Forest and the second highest (after the Donnersberg) in the Palatinate region of Germany. It is and located south of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
The mountain attracts many tourists ...
, the highest mountain in the
Palatinate Forest. It is part of the
Haardt
The Haardt () is a range of wooded, sandstone hills in the state of Rhineland Palatinate in southwestern Germany. The range is some long and lies within the Palatinate Forest (''Pfälzerwald''). Its highest point is the Kalmit, near Maikammer
...
mountains.
Geography
Location
The Breitenberg lies within both the
Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve
The Franco-German Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve (german: Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Nordvogesen, french: Réserve de biosphère transfrontalière des Vosges du Nord-Forêt palatine) was created in 1998 as the first UNESCO t ...
and the
Palatinate Forest Nature Park
The Palatinate Forest Nature Park (german: Naturpark Pfälzerwald) lies in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and borders on France. The nature park covers an area of and some 76% of its area is under the woods of the Palatinate Fore ...
. Its summit rises 1.3 km northwest of
Sankt Martin and 3 km west-northwest (both
as the crow flies
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The expression ''as the crow flies'' is an idiom for the most direct path between two points, rather similar to "in a beeline". This meaning is attested from the early 19th century, and appeared in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel '' Oliv ...
) of
Maikammer
Maikammer ( pfl, Maikomma) is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the German Wine Route, approx. 5 km south of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Maikammer is the seat of the ''V ...
, whose joint territorial boundary runs over the completely wooded hill. Like the
Stotz (603.2 m), with which it is linked to the northwest over a gentle saddle (ca. 535 m), the
Wetterkreuzberg
The Wetterkreuzberg () is a hill in the Haardt range on the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Location
The Wetterkreuzberg, like the Breitenberg (545.2 m), the Taubenkopf (603.8 m) and ...
(400.7 m), the
Taubenkopf (603.8 m), the
Hüttenberg
Hüttenberg is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Hüttenberg lies about 6 km southeast of Wetzlar and 10 km southwest of Giessen south of the river Lahn.
Neighbouring communities
Hüttenberg b ...
(620.1 m) and the Kanzel (531.7 m) the Breitenberg is one of the subpeaks of the
Kalmit
The Kalmit is the highest peak in the Palatinate Forest and the second highest (after the Donnersberg) in the Palatinate region of Germany. It is and located south of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
The mountain attracts many tourists ...
massif (672.6 m). It is located in an exposed location on the eastern edge of the Haardt, so that it appears as a prominent hill despite its relatively low height above places in the
Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...
.
Transport and walking routes
The ''Kalmithöhenstraße'', which runs ''inter alia'' past the Kalmit to the
Hüttenhohl and is part of the ''
Landesstraße
''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads t ...
'' 515 from Maikammer, crosses the highland northwest of the Breitenberg summit. Also northwest of the summit is a car park for walkers. The Breitenberg may be climbed from the Maikammer village of
Alsterweiler, from Sankt Martin or from the Sankt Martin valley.
File:2012 Pfälzerwald 523 Kalmitmassiv.JPG, The Kalmit massif seen from Maikammer with the Breitenberg, Kalmit main summit, Kanzel and Wetterkreuzberg
File:2012 Pfälzerwald 444 Breitenberg 545m.JPG, The Breitenberg
References
External links
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Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest
Maikammer
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate