The Bride and Groom
at www.dahner-felsenland.net. Retrieved 19 Nov 2013 (german: Braut und Bräutigam) is a double rock pinnacle, about high, near the small German town of

Dahn Dahn is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate Forest, approximately 15 km southeast of Pirmasens, and 25 km west of Landau. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeind ...

in the state of

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 ...

and in the southern Palatine Forest, the German half of the

Wasgau The Wasgau (german: Wasgau, french: Vasgovie) is a Franco-German hill range in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the French departments of Bas-Rhin and Moselle. It is formed from the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the north ...

region.

Geography

The Bride and Groom lie southwest of the town near Dahn Youth Hostel at a height of .

Topographic map In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historic ...

1:25,000 Rheinland-Pfalz, No. 6812 Dahn, 2004 edition. Opposite them to the northeast, on the other side of the Wieslauter stream, rises the symbol of Dahn, the 70-metre-high

Jungfernsprung The Jungfernsprung, is a precipitous rock formation in the small German town of Dahn in the county of Südwestpfalz. The rocks tower above the town by around 70 metres and are crowned by a type of summit cross at a height of . The rocks is t ...

crag. The surrounding

Dahner Felsenland The Dahner Felsenland, also referred to as the Dahn Rockland, is a landscape in the county of Südwestpfalz in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located in the middle section of the Wasgau, which in turn forms the southern ...

region is particularly rich in such strikingly shaped

bunter sandstone The Buntsandstein (German for ''coloured'' or ''colourful sandstone'') or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Buntsands ...

rock formations, that have better withstood the

weathering Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with water, atmospheric gases, and biological organisms. Weathering occurs ''in situ'' (on site, with little or no movement), ...

and

erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is distin ...

of softer layers of rock.

Sport climbing

In the

South Palatinate Climbing Area South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

the Bride and Groom are a much sought-after destination. According to the nomenclature used by

sport climber Sport climbing (or Bolted climbing) is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors (or bolts), permanently fixed into the rock for climber protection, in which a rope that is attached to the climber is clipped into the anchors to ...

s they are two

tower A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...

s between which there is a

chimney A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typic ...

, known as the ''Großer Kamin'' ("Great Chimney") and which is rated as a medium (III)

climbing grade In rock climbing, mountaineering, and other climbing disciplines, climbers give a grade to a climbing route or boulder problem, intended to describe concisely the difficulty and danger of climbing it. Different types of climbing (such as spo ...

on the UIAA scale. The difficulty of the total of eleven climbing routes on the rocks varies from grades I to VII-.

References

External links

swissmountains.ch: ''Braut & Bräutigam''
(basic data)

(with location plan)
Climbing impressions from the Palatinate: ''Braut und Bräutigam''
(photo report) {{Coord, 49, 8, 51, N, 7, 46, 26, E, type:mountain_elevation:232_region:DE-RP, display=title Rock formations of Rhineland-Palatinate Dahn Climbing areas of Germany Geography of the Palatinate (region) Heritage sites in Rhineland-Palatinate Natural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate