Diemerstein Forest

The Diemersteiner forest is a part of the Palatinate Forest in the state of Rhineland- Palatinate. It has an area of about 50 km ².

Geography

The Diemersteiner forest is in the north of the Palatinate Forest north of the hamlet Diemerstein, of the village of Frankenstein ( municipality high Speyer, the district of Kaiserslautern ) belongs. Due to the northern part extends to almost 10 km away, take 6 (Saarbrücken -Mannheim), who reached there by 403 m above sea level its highest point in this section.

The forest area is approximately bounded on the south by the B 37 (Kaiserslautern - Bad Durkheim ), the B 48 ( Rockhausen - Annweiler ) and in the north by the country road 395, connects the sink Bach Alsenborn with green city in the west. To the east at Carlsberg Diemersteiner the forest has no visible boundary to other parts of the Palatinate Forest. Moderate settlement " cornerstones " of the Diemersteiner Forest Speyer are high in the southwest, Enkenbach- Alsenborn in the northwest and Carlsberg in the Northeast.

The altitude usually moves between 300 and 450 m. Among the most important surveys include the gravel chewing mountain ( 461 m), the crooked corner ( 449 m) and the High Bühl (443 m), at which both the Rein ( north flank ) and the Isenach ( southern flank ) arises.

From Crooked Corner in the west of the High Bühl in the north and the gravel chewing mountain in the east, the watershed between Rein and Corner Brook runs as well as northern and Isenach Speyerbach ( Hochspeyerbach ) as the southern drainage system.

History

Above the hamlet Diemerstein lies the ruins of the castle of the same name, which in 1216 was the first documentary mention. 1521, during the Reformation, there the humanist Ulrich von Hutten was home. Today Diemersteiner forest is largely identical with the forest owned by the former lords and therefore also bears his name.