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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
Dahn Youth Hostel
portrait at diejugendherbergen.de
Dahner Felsenland
Regions of Rhineland-Palatinate Südwestpfalz South Palatinate Natural regions of the Palatinate Forest Geography of the Palatinate (region) Landscapes of Rhineland-Palatinate
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
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 ...
, which in turn forms the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the northern part of the Vosges in France. The Dahner Felsenland has numerous rock formations within the South Palatinate Climbing Area (''Klettergebiet Südpfalz'').
Geographic location
The landscape covers almost the same area as the collective municipality of the same name, which incorporates the town of Dahn and 14 villages. The Dahner Felsenland is part of thePalatine 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 ...
. It lies between 200 m (valleys) and 400 m (hilltops) high and is drained by the Lauter
Lauter may refer to:
People
* Lauter (surname)
Places
*Lauter, Saxony, town in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany
* Lauter, Bavaria, village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
Rivers
* Lauter (Baunach), tributary to th ...
, which here in its upper reaches is called the ''Wieslauter'', into the River Rhine
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Tourism
The region has been opened up by a large number of waymarked walking routes. In Dahn itself is the Felsenland Youth Hostel which is part of the German Youth Hostel Association.portrait at diejugendherbergen.de
Sights
In the Dahner Felsenland there are 16 medieval castles or castle ruins as well as numerous rock formations made ofbunter 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 ...
, that are used by sport climbers. Old legends surround rocks like the Jungfernsprung or the Devil's Table (''Teufelstisch'') (see the Legend of the Jungfernsprung and Legend of the Devil’s Table). Amongst the castles, the Dahn castles, the Berwartstein and the Drachenfels are the best known.
Transport
The Dahner Felsenland may be reached via the A8 motorway (from the west) and A 65 motorway (from the east), in each case using the B 10 federal highway that links the two autobahns. The B 427 (from Hinterweidenthal toBad Bergzabern
Bad Bergzabern () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, on the German Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the border with France, on the south-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, approximately ...
) runs right through the Dahn Valley (''Dahner Tal''), the originally planned section of the A 8 motorway from Pirmasens to Karlsruhe, running past Dahn, was never realised.
Running parallel to the B 427 in places is a branch of the Queich Valley Railway
The Queich is a tributary of the Rhine, which rises in the southern part of the Palatinate Forest, and flows through the Upper Rhine valley to its confluence with the Rhine in Germersheim. It is long and is one of the four major drainage syste ...
(Pirmasens– Landau), the Wieslauter Railway
The Lauter (in its upper course also: ''Wieslauter'') is a river in Germany and France.
The Lauter is a left tributary of the Rhine. Its length is , of which 39 km is in France and on the France–Germany border. It is formed by the confluenc ...
that links the villages of Hinterweidenthal in the north and Bundenthal in the south of the Dahner Felsenland. The route was re-opened in 1997 for excursions on Sundays and holidays, after regular passenger services had been terminated in 1966.
References
External links
{{Commons, Dahner FelsenlandDahner Felsenland
Regions of Rhineland-Palatinate Südwestpfalz South Palatinate Natural regions of the Palatinate Forest Geography of the Palatinate (region) Landscapes of Rhineland-Palatinate