Wine route (region)
The Weinstrasse is a landscape in the Palatinate ( state of Rhineland-Palatinate ) that was named after the German Wine Route .
geography
In the geological sense, the Wine Route is an altitude level that is almost 150 m high on average. It belongs to the south-west German low mountain range and, as a hilly zone about 85 km long and 10 to 15 km wide, it separates the Upper Rhine Plain from the Palatinate Forest, which it is in front of. Its eastern edge forms the Haardt with the Kalmit (673 m) as the highest elevation. The German Wine Route runs lengthways through the Weinstrasse region .
climate
The favorable thermal conditions allow the warm air to rise on the slopes at night, while the cold air flows down into the plains, so that there is less risk of frost on the vine slopes of the Wine Route when the vines are in bloom in spring . Due to the climatic conditions, fig and almond trees as well as kiwis and lemons also grow here in the open air .
economy
The wine route makes up most of the Palatinate's wine-growing region . The main economic factors are viticulture and tourism , which are often marketed in combination. The wine-growing communities on the Wine Route are identified in the article about the Palatinate wine-growing region .
traffic
In the longitudinal direction, the northern part of the Weinstrasse is accessed by the federal highway 271 , in the southern part by the B 38 and the Autobahn 65 ; intersecting traffic axes are listed under the aforementioned roads. In the case of railway lines, the regional lines Neustadt – Wissembourg and Neustadt– Monsheim (formerly: Pfälzische Nordbahn ) are to be mentioned, on which trains run in the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .