Platte (Palatinate Forest)
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 Summit area of the mountain |
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| height | 560.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ; Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Middle Palatinate Forest , Palatinate Forest | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 20 '25 " N , 8 ° 3' 37" E | |
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The plate is a 560.6 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Middle Palatinate Forest , part of the Palatinate Forest . The mountain lies within the boundaries of the urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Rhineland-Palatinate .
geography
location
The plate is located in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve and in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . Its summit rises as the crow flies 2.7 km northwest of the Hohen Loog ( 618.7 m ) and 5.7 km west of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The mountain, along with the Hohberg ( 512.1 m ) and the Königsberg ( 427.3 m ), is part of a ridge between the Kaltenbrunnertalbach in the south and Heidenbrunnertal in the north. In the southwest it borders the Oberscheid over the Hellerplatz pass .
The mountain is completely wooded with mixed forest mainly of pine and beech. At the summit there is a rock formation whose plate shape explains the name of the mountain; it is listed as a natural monument of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The remainder of a former summit stone lies next to the rock formation.
Natural allocation
The plate belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area, which is classified as a 3rd order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook on the natural structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . If you consider the internal structure of the natural area , it belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest.
In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the plate follows the following system:
- Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
- Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
- Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
- 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest
Access and hiking
The Lieselottensteig leads across the plate as a marked hiking trail. This can be climbed from Hellerplatz with the Hellerhütte or from the Kleine Ebene pass , which can be reached from the Heidenbrunner Tal from the Naturfreundehaus there or from the Kaltenbrunner Tal from the Kaltenbrunnerhütte. A forest path leads around the summit.
gallery
Summit area
Former summit stone
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b LANIS: Topographical Map. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Adalbert Pemöller: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 160 Landau i. d. Palatinate. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier, 1989, pp. 327–359
