The Mosisberg near Hofstätten 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 ...

(

Südwestpfalz Südwestpfalz (, ) is a district (''Kreis'' or more precise ''Landkreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Saarpfalz, the district-free city Zweibrücken, the districts Kaiserslautern a ...

county) is a hill, , in the central

Palatine Forest The Palatinate Forest (; ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park () covering 1,771&n ...

. It has two domes, the eastern one is the summit and is called ''Langer Kopf'' and the western high point is the ''Preußenstein''.

Geography

Location

The hill lies on the territory of the hamlet of Hofstätten in the municipality of

Wilgartswiesen Wilgartswiesen is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Geography The municipality lies in the southern part of the Palatine Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, in the middle of the Palatine For ...

and is part of the Frankenweide, which is a central massif within the mountain range. On the Langer Kopf there is a former

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radio relay site.

Surrounding area

The Mosisberg is the second northernmost of a line of four peaks that exceed 600 m. To the north is the

Eschkopf The Eschkopf near Hofstätten (Wilgartswiesen), Hofstätten in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Südwestpfalz county) is a major hill, high in the Palatine Forest. Location The Eschkopf is part of the Frankenweide, a rock massif in ...

(608.3 m), to the south are the Hortenkopf (606.2 m) and the

Weißenberg Weißenberg (German language, German) or Wóspork (Upper Sorbian language, Upper Sorbian, ) is a town in the Bautzen (district), district of Bautzen, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. The Upper Lusatian town has approximately 3,100 inhabitants and ...

(ca. 610 m) The Palatine Watershed between the

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(west) and

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(east) runs over the Eschkopf, Mosisberg and Hortenkopf. In a high hollow about 700 metres southeast of the Mosisberg summit there was once a

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, the ''Mosisbruch'', which was supplied by a two kilometre long brook that which shortly afterwards emptied from the right into the upper reaches of the

Wellbach The Wellbach is a stream in the Palatine Forest in Germany. It rises near Eschkopf and flows towards the south. In doing so, it passes the eastern edge of Hofstätten (Pfalz) in the municipality of Wilgartswiesen. It then flows under the B 10 f ...

Features

From the Mosisberg it is possible to walk to Leimen,

Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; ) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 m ...

- Mölschbach,

Elmstein Elmstein is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim (district), Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Ge ...

and via the forest lodges of ''Taubensuhl'' and ''Heldenstein'' almost as far as Neustadt on continuous ridges without dropping below the 450

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References

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