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Landstuhl Bruch
The Landstuhl Marsh or Landstuhl Bog (, ''Westricher Moorniederung'' or ''Westpfälzische Moorniederung'') is a region in West Palatinate in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. According to the Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany Landstuhl Marsh, which covers an area of the 67 km²,{{GeoQuelle, DE-RP, NRT is part of the Kaiserslautern Basin and lies in the centre of it. Within the North French Scarplands the Kaiserslautern Basin is a sub-unit of the Saar-Nahe Upland and Tableland. Geography The Landstuhl Marsh lies at an elevation of 200 metres above and is a bowl around 30 kilometres long and up to 7 kilometres wide running from Waldmohr in the southwest via Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, Ramstein-Miesenbach and Landstuhl to the city of Kaiserslautern in the northeast. In the north it is bounded by the North Palatine Uplands, which climb gradually from the lowland. In the south, by contrast, the Sickingen Heights form a very clear escarpment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Palatinate
Western Palatinate or West Palatinate (, ) is a sub-region in the west of the Palatinate (region), Palatinate, a German cultural and historic region in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It includes the western part of the Palatine Forest, the central part of the North Palatine Uplands, the West Palatine Moor and the Westrich Plateau. Its former name of "Further Palatinate" (''Hinterpfalz''), which emerged during the time of Kingdom of Bavaria, Bavarian rule in 1816 and was viewed by the local population as very discriminatory, is only commonly used in the Anterior Palatinate (''Vorderpfalz''). Geography The following counties and independent towns or cities lie wholly or partly in the Western Palatinate:: * Landkreis Kaiserslautern, County of Kaiserslautern * City of Kaiserslautern * Landkreis Kusel, County of Kusel * Town of Landstuhl * Town of Pirmasens * Landkreis Südwestpfalz, County of Südwestpfalz * Town of Zweibrücken The county of Donnersbergkreis and the old counti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
