The Wetterkreuzberg () is a hill in the

Haardt The Haardt () is a range of wooded, sandstone hills in the state of Rhineland Palatinate in southwestern Germany. The range is some long and lies within the Palatinate Forest (''Pfälzerwald''). Its highest point is the Kalmit, near Maikammer ...

range on the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest 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 ...

Location

The Wetterkreuzberg, like the Breitenberg (545.2 m), the Taubenkopf (603.8 m) and the Kanzel (531.7 m), is one of the outlying peaks of the

Kalmit The Kalmit is the highest peak in the Palatinate Forest and the second highest (after the Donnersberg) in the Palatinate region of Germany. It is and located south of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. The mountain attracts many tourists ...

massif (672.6 m). It is located in an exposed location right on the edge of the Haardt so that, despite its low elevation, it is seen from places in the

Rhine Plain The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...

as a prominent peak. To the north the hill is linked to the Kanzel over a shallow saddle. At the summit is a chapel to St. Mary (the ''Maria-Schutz-Kapelle'') which is visible from a long way off. The hill belongs to the parish of

Maikammer Maikammer ( pfl, Maikomma) is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the German Wine Route, approx. 5 km south of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Maikammer is the seat of the ''V ...

. The Kalmitstraße road, which runs from Maikammer to the

Hüttenhohl The Hüttenhohl is a mountain pass in the Haardt mountains in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the boundary of the parishes of Maikammer and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Here, at , the ''Kalmithöhenstraße'' (''Landesstraße'' 515) ...

runs across the hill. Just below the summit there is a walker's car park. The summit may be gained on footpaths from the

hamlet of Alsterweiler, from St. Martin or even from the Klausental Hut.

Gallery

File:2012 Pfälzerwald 523 Kalmitmassiv.JPG, The Kalmit Massif seen from Maikammer with the Breitenberg, Kalmit, Kanzel and Wetterkreuzberg File:2013 Pfälzerwald 083 Wetterkreuzberg.JPG, The Wetterkreuzberg seen from Sommerberg File:2013 Pfälzerwald 099 Wetterkreuzberg Gipfel.JPG, The summit File:2013 Pfälzerwald 094 Wetterkreuzberg Kapelle.JPG, The chapel on the Wetterkreuzberg File:2013 Pfälzerwald 095 Wetterkreuzberg Kapelle.JPG, Altar of the chapel on the Wetterkreuzberg File:2013 Pfälzerwald 022 Wetterkreuzberg Wetterkreuz ji.jpg, The Wetterkreuz

References

External links

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