Drachenfels (Bad Dürkheim)

West Rocks in Winter

The Drachenfels is a mountain in the northern part of the Palatinate forest ( Rheinland - Pfalz) at the forest district of the town of Bad Durkheim. With 570.8 m above sea level. NHN peak height, it is the highest elevation of the Palatinate Forest north of the line Hochspeyerbach / Speyerbach. The Drachenfels area is designated as a nature reserve.

• 3.1 Traffic
• 3.2 Care

Geography

Geographical location

The mountain is located in the western area of a triangle with side length of 14 kilometers, from the Isenachtal (B 37 ) in the north, the German Wine Road in the east and the valleys of Hochspeyerbach and Speyerbach (B 39) is formed in the southwest.

Environment

In the area of ​​Drachenfels lie as other destinations of Siegfriedbrunnen, the uncultivated forest house Kehrdichannichts, the ruins of cabins Murrmirnichtviel and Schaudichnichtum, the 1280 first mentioned Lambert Cross - oldest crossroads of the Palatinate - who managed Lambert cross - hut, which Waldgaststätte Saupferch and Leisure - and wildlife park Palatinate Park.

Description

The approximately 13 -acre summit plateau of red sandstone, the conspicuously dominated the offshore surveys of the Rhine Valley from, has its highest point in the Northeast. It was made in 1972 under nature protection. By 1920 horstete in the rock a pair of snake eagle.

The name of the mountain is - as the Siegfried of the nearby fountain - associated with the dragon out of the Nibelungen saga. Below the jutting rock in the southwest there are two cavities; the small is "dragon chamber ," called the greater " Dragon's Den ". In the western part of the plateau remains of a Roman period have survived; the former hillfort is only faintly visible under vegetation. From the so-called "West Rocks " in the Northwest are in the north, Thunder Mountain, in the northwest of the summit of the Hunsrück and to see to the west the city of Kaiserslautern.

Südfelsen

Sandstone massif on Südfelsen

Durchblick chamber below the Südfelsens

Tourism

Traffic

Due to its central location the Drachenfels from all sides can be reached, but only on foot; because the area is under protection, may not be ridden drove with mountain bikes or other two-wheelers there. The climb is quite steep and leads through partially unpaved forest roads and trails. The next trail parking lot at the Forest House Saupferch where there is a way panel of the Palatinate Forest Association may, from the north - B 37 Kaiserslautern Bad Durkheim - are approached via a paved road about 2 km long.

Care

Sets the Drachenfels - area is determined by the Drachenfels club. The association, which has been the preservation and beautification of cultural monuments in and around Bad Durkheim set the goal was founded in 1873 and launched in the same year the development of the Drachenfels one.