Weinstraße (region)

The Wine Route is a landscape in the Palatinate ( state of Rhineland -Palatinate ), which was named after the German Wine Route.

Geography

In the geological sense, the wine route is a height level, which is just 150 meters high on average. It belongs to the southwest German low mountain ranges and terraced landscape and separates as a hilly area of about 85 km in length and 10 to 15 km wide, the Upper Rhine Valley from the Palatinate Forest, which it precedes. Its eastern edge is the Haardt with the Kalmit ( 673 m ) as the highest elevation. In the longitudinal direction through the region wine route the German wine road runs.

Climate

The favorable thermals the warm air at night ascend on the slopes, while the cold flows in the plane so that at the time of flowering vines is hanging on the vines, the wine road in spring a lower risk of frost. Due to the climatic conditions up here in the wild figs and almond trees as well as kiwis and lemons.

Economy

The Wine Route is the largest part of the vineyard of the Pfalz. Main economic factors are viticulture and tourism, which are marketed often combined. The wine-growing communities on the wine route are identified in the article about the Palatinate wine region.

Traffic

In the longitudinal direction the wine route is opened up in the northern part by the federal highway 271, in the south by the B 38 and Highway 65; intersecting roads are listed under the aforementioned roads. (: Palatine Maximilian Railway earlier) and Neustadt- Monsheim (formerly Palatine Northern Railway ) railroad tracks In the regional lines Landau -Neustadt be mentioned, on which trains run in the Rhineland -Palatinate clock.

• Landscape in Rhineland -Palatinate
• Vorderpfalz
• Viticulture in Rhineland -Palatinate