Westrich Plateau
With Westricher plateau, also Zweibrücker Westrich or southwest Palatine plateau, is a landscape in the state of Rhineland- Palatinate, referred to smaller proportions in the Saar (Saar Pfalz-Kreis ). Its core area is located in the southwest of the Palatinate region, it is part of the historic region of West Rich.
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Geography
Structure and boundaries
The Westricher plateau consists primarily of the Sickinger Höhe in the north and the Zweibrücker hills in the south, which is part morphologically actually more to northeastern Lorraine (France).
To the north- west (for Homburger pool ) and especially to the north, to the land Bruch, the core plateau falls in a distinctive Escarpment, the Sickinger stage, while the eastern Westrich edge represents a rather smooth transition of the limestone plateau in the red sandstone of the Palatinate Forest. The below part surfaces on the Moosalb and Eppenbrunn protrude also to the Bewaldungen the Palatinate Forest. After now common classification form against which the Queidersbach and the Moosalbtal, the eastern settlement edge of Pirmasens and Trualbe the actual eastern edge. To the south of Zweibrücken hill country is in a sequel to France.
The average western border to Santa Ingbert- Kirkeler forest area and, further south, for Bliesgau, proceeds according to the Federal Institute for Regional Studies ( Journal of Saarbrücken) as well as according to popular opinion just west of the Saarland border and transgresses not the valley of the Assemblies, which used to hereafter as the demarcation former landscape applies. This compares with a purely Saarland internal breakdown tassels (see breakdown by tassels 1992) compared to the southwest Blew Kastels ( = west of the Blew right) still counts even a small part of the landscape for Zweibrücker Westrich.
Nature regions
Geographically, the plateau is divided as follows:
Watercourses
The Sickinger Höhe, mainly by the Wall half (17,9 km; 100.2 km ² catchment area ) and Auerbach (16,5 km; 80.4 km ²) is dewatered reaches in the south to just before the valley widening of the Black Bach. The East of Zweibrücker hill country ( Pirmasenser hill country) is mainly determined by the Felsalb (17,7 km; 76.0 km ²) drained, the West ( Schwalb hills ) by Schwalb ( 114.5 km ²) and Bickenalb ( 78.8 km ²), with just a small opening section is on German soil from the eponymous river. From Hornbach, the outfall of Felsalb, Schwalb and Bickenalb, is also only the shorter opening section in Germany, and this almost completely in the Lower Black Creek valley widening. In the north of Lambsbach drained directly to the Blew down the Sickinger Höhe.
Close to the northern edge of the Sickinger height passes the Palatine main watershed between the upper and the middle Rhine ( Moselle ) and almost the entire plateau on the Schwarzbach is dewatered to Blew, Saar and Moselle eventually.
History
An important historical person of the area was the knight Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523), who was leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knights at the time of transition from medieval to modern times. As a supporter of supporters of the Reformation, he fought for the secularization of ecclesiastical goods and led his peers to the Knights' War.
Sights and culture
Local attractions are treated, for example, in the article Miihlenweg. 1869 saw the Krahenberg meteorite for national attention.
The community association Wallhalben dedicated to intensive care of the local dialect and organizes since 1991 the Sickinger dialect contest.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Road
The Westricher plateau is accessed through the in the south from west to east running ( between two bridges and Pirmasens ) Highway 8 and Highway 62 - connects Landstuhl in the north with the south of Pirmasens - partially disassembled first two lanes.
Parallel to the Highway 8 runs the old national road 10, and from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens leads on the eastern edge of the plateau the highway 270
Rail
Also, approximately parallel to the A 8 runs the railway line Zweibrücken -Building - North, which is part of the connection Saarbrücken -Karlsruhe.
Colonization
The Westricher plateau is sparsely populated. Larger cities, there are only at peripheral locations with two bridges in southern west and in the south east, and Pirmasens - west outside the Sickinger height and beyond the escarpment - Homburg.