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The North Palatine Uplands (, ), sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands (''Pfälzer Bergland''), is a low mountain range and List of landscapes in Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palatinate (region), Palatinate region. It is part of the Saar-Nahe Uplands.
The North Palatine Uplands is characterised by numerous mountains, hills and valleys which lend the area sharp variations in height from about 200 to over . The highest point is the Donnersberg which, at 687 m is also the highest mountain in the Palatinate. The following is a list of prominent mountains and hills in the Uplands, sorted by height in metres above
Normalhöhennull, sea level (NHN):
* Donnersberg (686.5 m)Inscription on the granite rock of the trig point on the Donnersberg rock formation of Königsstuhl (Donnersberg), Königsstuhl
* Trautzberg (603.9 m)
* Füsselberg (595.1 m)
* Weiselberg (569.5 m)
* Königsberg (Pfalz), Königsberg (568.2 m)
* Potzberg (562 m)
* Selberg (Landkreis Kusel), Selberg (545.1 m)
* Herrmannsberg (North Palatine Uplands), Herrmannsberg (536.4 m)
* Bornberg (Pfalz), Bornberg (520.0 m)
Important rivers in the west and north of the range are the 90 km long Glan (Pfalz), Glan and the 57 km long Alsenz (river), Alsenz. The 116 km long Nahe (Rhine), Nahe, into which the other two discharge, is no longer included in this region. The area of the Donnersberg is drained towards the east by the 43 km long Pfrimm, which itself rises in the northern Palatine Forest, and the 61 km long Selz. Both flow into the Upper Rhine.
Verlag Eugen Ulmer: ''Die Pfalz ist eine Reise wert''
/ref> However, sometimes the term ''alte Welt'' just refers to a strip of land on the border of the districts of Landkreis Kusel, Kusel and Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, which is roughly demarcated by the Bundesstraße 420, 420, Bundesstraße 270, 270 and Bundesstraße 48, 48 federal highways and the Bundesautobahn 6, A 6 and Bundesautobahn 63, A 63 motorways. Depending on how the region is defined, its largest village is either Nußbach (Pfalz), Nußbach or Obermoschel.
The region is very rural in character and has no towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Important places are the county towns of Kirchheimbolanden and Kusel, and the collective municipalities of Alsenz, Altenglan, Lauterecken, Meisenheim, Rockenhausen, Winnweiler and Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Wolfstein.
Outdoorwiki: A hiking trail across North Palatinate
The North Palatine Uplands (, ), sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands (''Pfälzer Bergland''), is a low mountain range and List of landscapes in Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palatinate (region), Palatinate region. It is part of the Saar-Nahe Uplands.
Geography
Location
The North Palatine Uplands lie – roughly stated – between St. Wendel in the state of Saarland to the west and three towns belonging to Rhineland-Palatinate: Alzey to the east, Kaiserslautern to the south and Bad Kreuznach to the north, although these towns are not actually within the region itself. The North Palatine Uplands thus links the landscapes of the Palatine Forest, Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park, Naheland and Rheinhessen. To the northwest its boundary with Naheland is not always clear. A rough guide is the heavily folded ridge north of the Glan (Pfalz), Glan river with a height different of as much as 300 metres in place. The North Palatine Uplands fall mainly within the districts of Landkreis Kusel, Kusel and Donnersbergkreis. To a lesser extent it also falls within parts of Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Landkreis St. Wendel, St. Wendel, Landkreis Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld and Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Bad Kreuznach.Hills
The North Palatine Uplands is characterised by numerous mountains, hills and valleys which lend the area sharp variations in height from about 200 to over . The highest point is the Donnersberg which, at 687 m is also the highest mountain in the Palatinate. The following is a list of prominent mountains and hills in the Uplands, sorted by height in metres above
Normalhöhennull, sea level (NHN):
* Donnersberg (686.5 m)Inscription on the granite rock of the trig point on the Donnersberg rock formation of Königsstuhl (Donnersberg), Königsstuhl
* Trautzberg (603.9 m)
* Füsselberg (595.1 m)
* Weiselberg (569.5 m)
* Königsberg (Pfalz), Königsberg (568.2 m)
* Potzberg (562 m)
* Selberg (Landkreis Kusel), Selberg (545.1 m)
* Herrmannsberg (North Palatine Uplands), Herrmannsberg (536.4 m)
* Bornberg (Pfalz), Bornberg (520.0 m)
Rivers
Important rivers in the west and north of the range are the 90 km long Glan (Pfalz), Glan and the 57 km long Alsenz (river), Alsenz. The 116 km long Nahe (Rhine), Nahe, into which the other two discharge, is no longer included in this region. The area of the Donnersberg is drained towards the east by the 43 km long Pfrimm, which itself rises in the northern Palatine Forest, and the 61 km long Selz. Both flow into the Upper Rhine.
Name
The North Palatine Uplands is also referred to locally as the "Old World" ( or in Palatine German language, Palatinate German: ''die alt Welt'' or ''bucklige Welt'')./ref> However, sometimes the term ''alte Welt'' just refers to a strip of land on the border of the districts of Landkreis Kusel, Kusel and Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, which is roughly demarcated by the Bundesstraße 420, 420, Bundesstraße 270, 270 and Bundesstraße 48, 48 federal highways and the Bundesautobahn 6, A 6 and Bundesautobahn 63, A 63 motorways. Depending on how the region is defined, its largest village is either Nußbach (Pfalz), Nußbach or Obermoschel.
Settlement
The region is very rural in character and has no towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Important places are the county towns of Kirchheimbolanden and Kusel, and the collective municipalities of Alsenz, Altenglan, Lauterecken, Meisenheim, Rockenhausen, Winnweiler and Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Wolfstein.
Transportation
Roads
Motorways * Bundesautobahn 6, A 6 (Saarbrücken–Mannheim) * Bundesautobahn 62, A 62 (Landstuhl–Nonnweiler) * Bundesautobahn 63, A 63 (Kaiserslautern–Mainz) Federal roads * Bundesstraße 40, B 40 (Kaiserslautern–Alzey) * Bundesstraße 48, B 48 (Winnweiler–Bad Kreuznach) * Bundesstraße 270, B 270 (Kaiserslautern–Lauterecken) * Bundesstraße 420, B 420 (Ottweiler–Bad Kreuznach) * Bundesstraße 423, B 423 (Waldmohr–Altenglan)Railways
* Glan Valley Railway * Lauter Valley Railway * Alsenz Valley Railway * Zeller Valley Railway * Donnersberg RailwayExternal links
Outdoorwiki: A hiking trail across North Palatinate
References