The Kahlheid near
Morscheid-Riedenburg
Morbach is a municipality that belongs to no ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also a state-recognized climatic resort (''Luftkurort'').
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in the
Idar Forest
The Idar Forest (German: ''Idarwald'', Celtic: ''"id ar"'' - hill forest above the land) is part of the Hunsrück low mountain range in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The Idar Forest lies in the districts ...
(
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 ...
) is a
mountain
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, ,{{GeoQuelle, DE-RP, LANDIS-Karte on the boundary between the counties of
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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and
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 ...
in the German 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 ...
.
The mountain is the third highest in Rhineland-Palatinate after the
Erbeskopf
The Erbeskopf () is a mountain in the Hunsrück range in central Germany. At a height of , it is the highest point in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as the highest point of German territory on the western bank of the Rhine. It lies ...
(816.3 m), 2.6 km to the southwest and its southwestern subpeak, the ''Springenkopf'' (784.2 m), in the
Schwarzwälder Hochwald
The Schwarzwälder Hochwald (; literally 'Black Forest High Forest'), not to be confused with the High Black Forest, is the high south-western part of the Hunsrück in the German states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. SWRDer Schwarzwälder Ho ...
, and the peak of
An den zwei Steinen
An den zwei Steinen is a mountain, , in the Idar Forest (part of the Hunsrück mountains) in the counties of Birkenfeld and Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The wooded peak is the second-highest in Rhineland-Palatinate after ...
(766.2 m), 12 km to the northeast (both distances
as the crow flies
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), also in the Idar Forest.
See also
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List of mountains and hills in Rhineland-Palatinate
This list of mountains and hills in Rhineland-Palatinate shows a selection of high and/or well-known mountains and hills in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate (''in order of height''). Although there is no universally agreed definition, this ...
References
Mountains under 1000 metres
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountains and hills of the Hunsrück
Birkenfeld (district)
Bernkastel-Wittlich