page_title: Palatinate Forest
section_title: Landscape character
hierarchical_section_title: Palatinate Forest / Geomorphology / Landscape character
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Panoramablick vom Rehbergturm auf Trifels Richtung Norden.
context_page_description: 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 km² and its highest elevation is the Kalmit.
  Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.
context_section_description: Weathering and erosion of the different rock strata of the Palatine Forest with their variable hardness have resulted in a low mountain landscape with a dense, deeply incised system of valleys and wide variety of hill shapes. The hard and resistant rocks of the Lower and Middle Bunter have produced a scarpland relief, whose cuestas characterize the landscape, especially in the north and east, whilst the southeastern part of the Palatinate Forest is dominated by rather isolated types of hill separated by erosion surfaces.
caption: The Palatinate Forest is a heavily incised, low mountain range with many hillforms and dense afforestation: panoramic view from the Rehberg (tower) on the Trifels looking north.
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