Weinbiet

Weinbiet of Mußbach from, Panorama Tower (left, with a small antenna) because of the relative proximity (air line three kilometers recording 2008) almost completely obscured by trees

The Weinbiet from the north from the plane. The top of transmitter tower showing randomly on the six kilometers south to Hambach Castle (small in the background) bdep2

The 554 m above sea level. NHN high Weinbiet on the forest district of Neustadt on the Wine Route ( Rhineland -Palatinate ) is a prominent mountain on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, the Haardt, the Upper Rhine Plain back.

At the top there is a radio transmission tower, which is usually called Weinbietsender on site, a brick tower with panoramic Weather Station ( Weinbietturm ) and built as a restaurant Weinbiethaus. The two striking towers make the mountain from the 400 meter level down from a regional landmark, has chosen its name after the wine cooperative Weinbiet the Neustadter districts Mußbach ( seat), Gimmeldingen and Haardt.

• 2.1 Weinbiethaus
• 2.2 Weinbietturm
• 2.3 Radio transmission tower
• 2.4 Heidenburg

Geography

Geographical location

The Weinbiet lies to the northwest above the main town of Neustadt on the Wine Road on the western shoulder of the grave breach, which led to the depression of the Rhine valley. The slump continued in a lower Tertiary about 65 million years ago and continues up to the present time.

The Ostläufer of Weinbietmassivs, the 316 meter high mountain fog ( Nöpelberg ) is quite pronounced and stretches more than a mile to the edge of the grave breach. During the Gimmeldinger quarry on the eastern side of the Misty Mountain in the mid 20th century, was abandoned, the Haardter quarry will continue to operate on the southern slope.

The Südläufer direction Speyerbach the 474 meter high Wolfsberg with the three -acre nature reserve, flattens against south-southeast to the mountain stone (409 meters) back from. This is also the stone relief Steinerner Hirsch, from where a wide view over the Rhine valley is possible, further west the ruins of Wolfsburg and the Hohfels. Roughly in the south-north direction spread east of Wolfsberg the tits and west of the Nuns.

The West runners, the 428 meter high Schwalbeneck goes to the north over the rear Langenberg, whose highest peaks are located in the north west ( 466 meters) and in the southeast (502 meters).

High lies on the northern edge of the Weinbiets, taken in Loos wells, the strongest source of Mußbachs flowing through Gimmeldingen and Mußbach and then empties into the Rehbach, the northern branch of the Speyer Bach.

In the north the forest district of the city Deidesheim to the Weinbietmassiv borders to the east and proceeding clockwise the districts of King Bach, Gimmeldingen and Haardt and the core city of Neustadt on the Wine Road, in the south of the district Schoental, in the west the local church Lindenberg.

Traffic routes

The Weinbiet is a frequently visited vantage point, lead to the Neustadt, Gimmeldingen, Haardt and Lindenberg hiking trails, which are marked, for example with the red dot. The leading right through the valley of the main access route to the summit Mußbachs contributes according to the former transport animals the name donkey path. He was widened in the 1960s and secured so that there may be operating also supplying motor vehicles.

Climate

The Weinbiet brought the eastern towns in his Lee Haardt, Gimmeldingen, Mußbach and King Bach, all of which belong to the district-free city Neustadt on the Wine Route since 1969, a mild climate and little rainfall, which favors the cultivation of quality wines.

The average annual precipitation on the Weinbiet itself is 585 mm. This is a low value that is in the lower fifth of the detected values ​​in Germany; only 18 percent of the stations of the German Weather Service even lower values ​​are recorded. The driest month is January, most precipitation falls in May, ie 1.7 times more than in January. Nevertheless, the rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, at just 12 percent of the stations, the seasonal variations are smaller.

On the Weinbiet occur occasionally unusual weather phenomena. So there the highest ever measured in Germany nocturnal minimum temperature was on 13 August 2003 in the so-called summer of the century with 26.7 ° C recorded, or simply put: this was the warmest since records began night in Germany. On 28 February 2010, the hurricane Xynthia reached on the Weinbiet a wind speed of 166 km / h

Attractions

Weinbiethaus

The local group founded in 1906 Gimmeldingen of the Palatinate Forest Association ( PWV ) built in 1910 on the Weinbiet a wooden hut serving as a weather-protected way. The stone Weinbiethaus was planned from 1925 and built from brick in 1927 for 15,000 Reichsmarks of red sandstone. On June 3, 1928, was inaugurated. It is managed daily except Friday.

In the years 1960 and 1966, the house was expanded to include a new kitchen, toilet facilities and an additional guest room. Until 1988, the Loos wells supplied the water, then the water supply and disposal of Neustadt was here put into operation.

Weinbietturm

The brick panoramic tower belongs to the city of Neustadt and is open almost every day. In the 19th century it was given the name Weinbietturm. He was also built from 1872 to 1877 of red sandstone is 21.5 meters high and has inside a stone spiral staircase. About it is for visitors only the brick gallery accessible to a later near the spire mounted rotary platform is exclusively reserved for servants.

Since April 1952 is located in the tower, a station of the German Weather Service. He also serves as a transmission tower, but the performance is limited because of its low height. On the tower installed in June 2010, the Wildlife Protection Society Germany (NABU ) in collaboration with the German Weather Service and the city of Neustadt, the first panoramic camera Palatinate Forest. It is south facing and transfers as a permanent loan from the camera manufacturer Mobotix live images and temperature data to the Internet, which are updated every ten minutes.

Broadcasting transmission tower

Near the panoramic tower stands 136 meters high transmitter Weinbiet, a guyed steel framework mast, which supplies the region with FM radio and DVB -T. To distinguish from the old Weinbietturm he is usually called Weinbietsender site.

Heidenburg

The Heidenburg, a ring wall from the 9th century, which served as a refuge castle, located right above the valley of Mußbachs in 316 meters altitude on the summit of the mountain mist, the Weinbiet - Ostläufers.