The Falkensteiner Vorwald is the gently rolling westernmost part of the

Bavarian Forest image:Zell-bayerischer-wald.jpg, The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest The Bavarian Forest ( or ''Bayerwald'' ; ) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany, that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech Republic, C ...

in northern

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and southern

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in the German state of

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Geography

Location

The Falkensteiner Vorwald with the market town of

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in the centre, extends southwards to immediately in front of the

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with

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in the far southeast, Straubing roughly to the south and

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immediately southwest. Its western and northwestern extent is roughly marked by the valley of the River

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, in the extreme northwest extending as far as

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and, in the north, to Roding. It is adjoined to the west-northwest by the Danube Hills. To the southwest it borders on the northwestern edge of the Regen Depression, to the southeast on the Upper Palatine Hills, to the east on the Central

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and, to the north, on the Dungau.

Sources

* Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen (editors): ''

Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands The ''Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany'' () was a book series resulting from a project by the former German Federal Institute for Regional Studies ('' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde'') to determine the division of Germany into natu ...

.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg, 1953–1962 (9 issues in 8 books, updated map at 1:1,000,000 scale with major units, 1960). * Dietrich-Jürgen Manske: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 164 Regensburg.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1981. →&nbs
Online-Karte
(PDF; 4,8 MB) * Klaus Müller-Hohenstein: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 165/166 Cham.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1973. →&nbs
online map
(pdf; 4.4 MB) * Willi Czajka, Hans-Jürgen Klink: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 174 Straubing.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg, 1967. →&nbs
online map
(pdf; 4.3 MB)

External links

* : ** ** ** {{Authority control Bavarian Forest Regions of Bavaria ! Falkensteiner Vorwald