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Holpertal
The Holpertal is a valley, just one and a half kilometres long, in the central Palatine Forest of Germany. It lies within the municipality of Ramberg in the county of Südliche Weinstraße in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Its V-shaped cross-section was cut by the waters of the Holperbach stream, which has incised deeply into the rock layers of the Lower Bunter. The valley floor climbs from an elevation of about 250 metres to well over 400 metres. Its slopes are covered with mixed forest and sweet chestnut. Whilst at one time, the valley produced raw materials for the traditional broom and brush-making industries, today forestry and tourism predominate. In the immediate vicinity of the Holpertal are a number of points of interest that include the castle ruins of Meistersel, Ramburg and Neuscharfeneck Castle, the Brushmakers' Museum in Ramberg and a number of hiking destinations. Geography Location The Holpertal lies in the eastern part of the Palatine Forest a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramberg (Pfalz)
Ramberg is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Location Ramberg lies in the Palatine Forest Nature Park around 7 km (as the crow flies) north-northeast of Annweiler am Trifels. The Dernbach (Eisbach), Dernbach stream, a tributary of the Eisbach (Queich), Eisbach, flows through the village from north to south direction and the village itself is surrounded by forested hills. A few hundred metres north of the built-up area is the valley of Holpertal. On the ''Schlossberg'' ("castle hill"), which rises above the village, are the ruins of the castle of Ramburg. Other ruins near Ramberg are: Frankenburg (Palatinate), Frankenfelsen Castle, Meistersel Castle and Neuscharfeneck Castle. Prominent hills within the municipality include the Drenselberg (524 m), the Schindl Kopf (510 m) and the Hühnerkopf (477 m). The ''Brushmakers' Museum, Ramberg, Brushmakers' Museum'' () in Ramberg is a local history museum. The neighbouring v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brushmakers' Museum, Ramberg
The Brushmakers' Museum () in Ramberg is a local history museum in the village of Ramberg in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The responsible body that set the museum up in 1997 and has run it since then is the Local History and Museum Society of the Brushmakers' Workshop, Ramber (''Heimat- und Museumsverein des Bürstenmacherhandwerks Ramberg e. V.''). Geography Ramberg is part of the collective municipality of Annweiler am Trifels in the county of Südliche Weinstraße. The specialist museum in the village centre west of the high street (''Hauptstraße''), the ''Landesstraße'' 506, is housed in an old brush factory that, following a major strike in 1907 was formed on a co-operative basis. History Since the 18th century, the municipality of Ramberg has been known beyond the boundaries of the Palatinate region for its brushmakers and brush merchants; for a long time these were almost the only occupations that were undertaken in this remote corner of the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Südliche Weinstraße
Südliche Weinstraße (; ; ) is a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Südwestpfalz, Bad Dürkheim, the district-free city Neustadt (Weinstraße), Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, Germersheim, and the French ''département'' Bas-Rhin. The district-free city Landau is surrounded by the district. History On May 27, 1832 the Hambacher Fest took place in the castle of Hambach, an event which marks the beginning of the German democracy. The district was formed in 1969 by merging the districts Landau and Bergzabern. At first the name of the new district was ''Landau-Bad Bergzabern'', it was renamed to ''Südliche Weinstraße'' in 1978. Geography The district is named after the first touristic route built in Germany in the 1930s, the German Wine Route ''(Deutsche Weinstraße)''. It starts in Bockenheim an der Weinstraße, goes through Bad Dürkheim, Deidesheim, and after 85 kilometers ends in Schweigen-Rechtenbach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normalhöhennull
' (, "standard elevation zero") or NHN is a vertical datum used in Germany. In geographical terms, NHN is the reference plane for the normal height of a topographical eminence height above mean sea level used in the 1932 German Mean Height Reference System ('). The plane is in the shape of a quasi- geoid. The reference height is a geodetic, fixed point on the New Church of St. Alexander at Wallenhorst in the German state of Lower Saxony. The geopotential height of this point was calculated in 1986 as part of the United European Levelling Network (UELN), based on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum. Definition The NHN plane is a theoretical reference plane. It is derived by deducting normal heights from the normal plumb line. The difference between the resulting quasi-geoid and the reference ellipsoid is called the height anomaly or quasi-geoid height. Change-over from NN to NHN Since 1 January 2000 the whole of Germany has changed its height system over to normal height ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dernbach (Eisbach)
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Head Of The Valley
The head of the valley or, less commonly, the valley head, refers to the uppermost part of a valley.Leser (2005), p. 935. Description The head of a valley may take widely differing forms; for example, in highland regions the valley often ends in a broad, evenly sloping hollow. The higher the head of the valley, the more likely it is to resemble the geomorphological shape of a cirque. In glacial valleys or trough valleys, it may be referred to as the trough head or trough end.Leser (2005), p. 978. In mountains with predominantly crystalline rock the heads of the valleys are generally very wet, sometimes boggy and often support lush alpine meadows, whilst those made of limestone are usually dry and covered in Scree, talus or gravel. Where there has been ice age glaciation, the valley bottoms are modified by moraines and mountain lakes are common. See also * Structural basin * U-shaped valley, U-shaped or trough valley * Landform * Valley step References Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuscharfeneck Castle
The castle of Neuscharfeneck is a ruin and a cultural monument above Ramberg and Dernbach on the territory of an exclave of Flemlingen in the district of Südliche Weinstraße in the west German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Location The ruins are situated in the eastern part of the Palatine Forest. They lie at an elevation of on the western foothills of the Kalkofen Berg in the middle of a forest and are only accessible over forest tracks. Layout The first castle, dating to the 13th century, was considerably smaller than the present ruins. Of the Hochstaufen castle only a few remnants have survived. The entire site measures about . Its shield wall, built from ca. 1212 to 1232 and extended in the years 1470 and 1530, is the mightiest in the Palatinate, with a length of and thickness of . Within the shield wall there are relatively few usable passages, chambers and casemates. It therefore acted - apart from the hoarding (''Plattform'') that has not survived - prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramburg
The Ramburg is a ruined hill castle in the county of Südliche Weinstraße, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Geography The ruins of the Ramburg stand on the ''Schlossberg'' ("castle hill") at a height of above the village of Ramberg in the Palatinate region. The river Dernbach, the left-hand headstream of the Eisbach) flows through the valley. Other castle ruins in the vicinity are: Modeneck Castle (ca. 2 km east-northeast), Frankenfelsen Castle (ca. 2.5 km east-northeast) and Neuscharfeneck Castle (ca. 2 km southeast). History The Ramburg was built in the 12th century under the House of Hohenstaufen as an imperial castle for the protection of Trifels Castle. It is recorded as the seat of imperial ''ministeriales'' from 1163. In 1519, Hans of Ramburg, the last member of the House of Ramburg, sold his castle to the Dalbergs. Six years later the castle was completely razed during the Peasants' War. In 1540 the ruins were sold to the counts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
