North Palatine Uplands

North Palatine Uplands to Munchweiler in Donnersbergkreis

The North Palatine Uplands, incorrectly shortened even Palatinate Hills is a low mountain landscape in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The largest part of the area belongs to the Palatinate.

3.1 Economic and colonization
3.2 traffic 3.2.1 roads
3.2.2 Railways

Geography

Location

The North Palatine Uplands extends from southwest to northeast. It is - roughly bounded - between the Saarland St. Wendel in the west and the three to Rhineland-Palatinate belonging Alzey cities in the east, Kaiserslautern in the south and in the north of Bad Kreuznach, where these places are themselves no longer to be counted. The North Palatine Uplands thus combines the landscapes Palatinate Forest Nature Park Saar- Hunsrück, Nahe region and Rheinhessen.

In the northwest, the demarcation for the Nahe region is not unique. Often the range of hills north of the glans unfolds strong and Glantal has a height difference of sometimes more than 300 meters, taken as a boundary.

Share of the North Palatine Uplands have especially the district of Kusel, and the Thunder Mountain district. To a lesser extent it also extends over parts of the districts of St. Wendel, Kaiserslautern, Birkenfeld and Bad Kreuznach.

Mountains

The North Palatine Uplands is characterized by numerous hills and valleys, which give the area a greatly varying altitude of around 200 to over 600 m. The highest mountain is Mount Thunder, which also constitutes the highest elevation of the Palatinate with 686.5 m.

This and other prominent mountains are:

Thunder Mountain ( 686.5 m)
Trautzberg (604 m)
Füsselberg ( 595 m)
Weisel mountain ( 570 m)
King Mountain ( 568 m)
Potzberg ( 562 m)
Selberg (546 m)
Herrmann mountain ( 536 m)
Born mountain ( 520 m)

Watercourses

The extreme west of the North Palatine Uplands drained out over the catchment area of about 100 kilometers long assemblies to the Saar and Moselle. Major rivers in the western and central area are the 90 km long Glan including his most water inflow Lauter ( "Forest Loud ") and the 57 km long Alsenz. The 116 km long Nahe, in which they open and is a left tributary of the Rhine flows north out of the highlands. The eastern area at Thunder Mountain dewater the 43 km long Pfrimm that even though its source in the northern Palatinate Forest, and the 61 km long Selz. Both flow eastward into the Upper Rhine.

Name

Despite its name, the North Palatine Uplands share not only in the northern and western ( to a lesser extent ) Palatinate, but also in the Saarland. Sometimes it is in the vernacular ( dialect the old world) also called old world or hunchbacked world. In some cases, the term Old World refers to ( then as a proper name in upper case) but only on a secluded stretch of land in the transition area of the counties Kusel and Kaiserslautern, bounded approximately by the federal highways 420, 270 and 48 as well as the highways 6 and 63. Largest parish is there, depending on the particular definition, Nußbach or Obermoschel.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy and colonization

The region is predominantly agricultural and has no cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Significant places are the county seats of Kirchheimbolanden Kusel as well as seats of unitary councils, Alsenz, Altenglan, Volume corners, Meis Home, Rockhausen, Winnweiler and Wolfenstein.

Increasingly, sets the field of tourism. Thus, the Palatine Trail was opened in spring 2011, which runs in the area of Thunder Mountain and is 112 kilometers the third longest premium hiking the Palatinate. Other well-known hiking trails are of Remigius and the Veldenz trail. They are named after historical buildings in the North Palatine Uplands, the first after the provost of St. Remigius, the second after the county Veldenz.

Traffic

Several kilometers to the south and approximately parallel to the mountain range, the motorway is 6 (Saarbrücken -Mannheim), the West is from the A 62 ( Landstuhl Nonnweiler ), crosses the east by the A 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz). In sections through the North Palatine Uplands lead the federal highways 40 (Kaiserslautern - Alzey ), 48 ( Winnweiler -Bad Kreuznach ), 270 (Kaiserslautern - Lauter corners), 420 ( Ottweiler -Bad Kreuznach ) and 423 ( Forest Mohr- Altenglan ).

Railways

The parallel in the West to Highway 6 railway line Mannheim -Saarbrücken enables connection to the national rail transport. Regional trains are the Glantalbahn, the Lauter Valley Railway, the Alsenztalbahn, the Zeller Valley Railway and the Thunder Mountain Railway. From its name to the respective position is clear.

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