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The Idar Forest (German: ''Idarwald'',
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: ''"id ar"'' - hill forest above the land) is part of the
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low mountain range in the German federal state of
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Geography

The Idar Forest lies in the
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of
Bernkastel-Wittlich Bernkastel-Wittlich (German language, German: ''Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich'') is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld ...
and
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in the northeast of the
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. It lies more or less in the triangle formed by the villages of
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(in the northwest),
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(northeast) and
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(southeast), but apart from Morbach – does not extend as far as these places. The underlying rocks are primarily made up of Lower
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Mountains

Amongst the highest
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s in the Idar Forest are: * An den zwei Steinen (766 m) * Kahlheid (766 m) * Steingerüttelkopf (757 m) * Ruppelstein (755 m) * Idarkopf (746 m) - crowned by the Idarkopf Tower * Usarkopf (724 m)


Bodies of water


Streams

The following
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s rise in, or on the edge of, the Idar Forest: * Dhron * Idarbach (Nahe) - rises between Erbeskopf and Kahlheid * Idarbach (Hahnenbach) - rises north of the Idarkopf near
Hochscheid Hochscheid is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location This rural municipality l ...
* Rhaunelbach * Steinbach


Lakes and reservoirs

The following
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s and
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s are located in, or on the edge of, the Idar Forest: * Steinbach Reservoir on the Steinbach


Sources

*Uwe Anhäuser: ''Heimat am Idarwald.'' Literaturverlag Dr. Gebhardt und Hilden, Idar-Oberstein 2001, .


External links


Idarkopf
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