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The Idar Forest (German: ''Idarwald'',
The following lakes and reservoirs are located in, or on the edge of, the Idar Forest:
* Steinbach Reservoir on the Steinbach
Idarkopf
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The Idar Forest (German: ''Idarwald'', Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
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**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
: ''"id ar"'' - hill forest above the land) is part of the Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...
low mountain range in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The Idar Forest lies in thedistricts
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
of Bernkastel-Wittlich
Bernkastel-Wittlich (German: ''Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich'') is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarbur ...
and Birkenfeld
Birkenfeld () is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants.
Geography
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in the northeast of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park. It lies more or less in the triangle formed by the villages of Morbach (in the northwest), Rhaunen (northeast) and Idar-Oberstein (southeast), but apart from Morbach – does not extend as far as these places.
The underlying rocks are primarily made up of Lower Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...
quartzites.
Mountains
Amongst the highest mountains in the Idar Forest are: * An den zwei Steinen (766 m) * Kahlheid (766 m) * Steingerüttelkopf (757 m) * Ruppelstein (755 m) *Idarkopf
The Idarkopf near Stipshausen in the Hunsrück is a mountain, , within the Idar Forest in the German counties of Birkenfeld and Bernkastel-Wittlich. It is one of the highest mountains in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Geography
Locati ...
(746 m) - crowned by the Idarkopf Tower
Idarkopf Tower (german: Idarkopf Turm or Idarkopfturm), also known as Idarkopf Observation Tower (german: Idarkopf Aussichtsturm) for long, is a wooden German lattice observation tower on the summit of Mt. Idarkopf in the state of Rhineland-Palati ...
* Usarkopf (724 m)
Bodies of water
Streams
The followingstream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
s rise in, or on the edge of, the Idar Forest:
* Dhron
* Idarbach (Nahe) - rises between Erbeskopf and Kahlheid
* Idarbach (Hahnenbach) - rises north of the Idarkopf
The Idarkopf near Stipshausen in the Hunsrück is a mountain, , within the Idar Forest in the German counties of Birkenfeld and Bernkastel-Wittlich. It is one of the highest mountains in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Geography
Locati ...
near Hochscheid
Hochscheid is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
This rural municipality l ...
* Rhaunelbach
* Steinbach
Lakes and reservoirs
The following lakes and reservoirs are located in, or on the edge of, the Idar Forest:
* Steinbach Reservoir on the Steinbach
Sources
*Uwe Anhäuser: ''Heimat am Idarwald.'' Literaturverlag Dr. Gebhardt und Hilden, Idar-Oberstein 2001, .External links
Idarkopf
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