The Landstuhl Marsh or Landstuhl Bog (german: (Spesbach-)Landstuhler Bruch , ''Westricher Moorniederung''
or ''Westpfälzische Moorniederung'') is a region in
West Palatinate 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 ...
.
According to the
Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany
The ''Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany'' (german: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands) was a book series resulting from a project by the former German Federal Institute for Regional Studies ('' Bundesanstalt für La ...
Landstuhl Marsh, which covers an area of the 67 km²,{{GeoQuelle, DE-RP, NRT is part of the
Kaiserslautern Basin and lies in the centre of it. Within the
North French Scarplands the Kaiserslautern Basin is a sub-unit of the
Saar-Nahe Upland and Tableland.
Geography
The Landstuhl Marsh lies at an elevation of 200 metres above and is a bowl around 30 kilometres long and up to 7 kilometres wide running from
Waldmohr
Waldmohr is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Oberes Glantal.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies at the western end of the Landstuhl Marsh (a depression), right at the st ...
in the southwest via
Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Bruchmühlbach-Miesau is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the small river Glan, approx. 10 km north-east of Homburg, and 25 km west of Kaiserslautern. It has many fe ...
,
Ramstein-Miesenbach
Ramstein-Miesenbach is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, adjacent to the U.S. Ramstein Air Base.
History
As a result of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz administrative reform, Ramstein-Miesenbach, which h ...
and
Landstuhl
Landstuhl () is a town in the Kaiserslautern district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is the seat of ''Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl'', a kind of "collective municipality." Landstuhl is situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate F ...
to the city of
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...
in the northeast. In the north it is bounded by the
North Palatine Uplands
The North Palatine Uplands (german: Nordpfälzer Bergland), sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands (''Pfälzer Bergland''), is a low mountain range and landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palat ...
, which climb gradually from the lowland. In the south, by contrast, the
Sickingen Heights
The Sickingen Heights (german: Sickinger Höhe) form a landscape in the western part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The region was named after the family of imperial knight, Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523), because most of the are ...
form a very clear
escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.
The terms ''scarp'' and ''scarp face'' are often used interchangeably with ''escar ...
of about 200 metres height. The region is mainly drained by the Glan (in the west) and the 20-kilometre-long Mohrbach (centre), which rises not far south of the Moordamm Mill and empties into the Glan at
Niedermohr. The streams in the far east flow into 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 is regionally also called the ''Waldlauter''.
References
External links
Verbandsgemeinde Ramstein-MiesenbachVerbandsgemeinde Landstuhl
Regions of Rhineland-Palatinate
Western Palatinate
Special Areas of Conservation in Germany
Geography of the Palatinate (region)
Natural regions of the Saar-Nahe Uplands