The Meulenwald, also called the Mühlenwald, is a

bunter sandstone The Buntsandstein (German for ''coloured'' or ''colourful sandstone'') or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Buntsands ...

hill ridge, up to , in the southern part of the

Eifel mountains The Eifel (; , ) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Com ...

in the counties of

Trier-Saarburg Trier-Saarburg (; ) is a district in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north and clockwise) Bitburg-Prüm, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Birkenfeld, Sankt Wendel (Saarland), and Merzig-Wadern (Saarland). To ...

and

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 ...

in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

Geography

Location

The Meulenwald is part of the

Moselle Eifel The Moselle Eifel () forms the southeastern strip of the East Eifel to the left of the Moselle from the city of Trier downstream as far as Moselkern; in the southeast it does not reach as far as the Moselle Valley. It lies exclusively within the G ...

and extends from Ehrang/Quint in the northern part of the borough of

Trier Trier ( , ; ), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves ( , ) and Triers (see also Names of Trier in different languages, names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle (river), Moselle in Germany. It lies in a v ...

in the southwest to the Wittlich Basin near

Salmtal Salmtal is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It became well known countrywide for the football cl ...

in the northeast and between Zemmer to the west and Hetzerath to the east. In the southwest it reaches the

Kyll The Kyll (), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as ''Celbis'', is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel mountains, near the border with Belgium and flows ...

and in the northeast as far as the Salm, both tributaries of the

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...

; the streams of Quintbach and the Bendersbach flow within the hill range.

Natural regions

The Meulenwald forms a natural region subunit (''Meulenwald'', 270.7) within the major unit group of the

East Eifel The Eifel (; , ) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Com ...

(No. 27) and major unit of the Moselle Eifel (270).

Hills

The

hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ...

s and high points of the Meulenwald include the following – sorted by height in

metre The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of ...

s (m) above sea level (NHN): * Kellerberg (448.8 m), immediately south of Dierscheid * Steinenberg (423.1 m), immediately east of Naurath * Zoonenberg (401.9 m), north of Ehrang * Römerberg (359.0 m), southeast of

Kordel Kordel is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is home to the ruins of Ramstein Castle. Kordel was severely affected by the 2021 European floods In July 2021, several European countries were affec ...

Rothenberg Rothenberg is a village and a former municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. Since January 2018, it is part of the new town Oberzent. Geography Location Rothenberg lies at elevations between 200 and 500 m in the so ...

(269.7 m), between Quint and Issel

Settlements

Settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation *Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *Settlement (litigatio ...

s in and on the edge of the Meulenwald are: * City of

: Ehrang/Quint *

(county and southern part of the Meulenwald) **

Trier-Land Trier-Land is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the border with Luxembourg, north and west of Trier. The seat of the municipality is in Trier, its ...

: collective municipality including Zemmer,

Schweich an der Römischen Weinstraße Schweich is a town in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Moselle, approx. northeast of Trier. Schweich is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde A (; plural ) is a low-level administrative ...

: collective municipality including

Föhren Föhren is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north a ...

, Naurath *

(county and northern part of the Meulenwald; hedge country) **

Wittlich-Land Wittlich-Land is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located around the town Wittlich, which is the seat of Wittlich-Land, but not part of the ''Verbandsgem ...

: collective municipality including Bruch, Dierscheid, Dodenburg,

Dreis Dreis is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geog ...

, Gladbach, Heckenmünster, Heidweiler, Hetzerath, Erlenbach, Niersbach, Greverath, Dörbach, Sehlem.

References

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