page_title: Holzland (Palatinate)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Holzland (Palatinate) / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick vom Luitpoldturm nach Nordwesten: Im Vorderung links Leimen, im Mittelgrund die Sickinger Höhe und am Horizont Potzberg und Königsberg
context_page_description: Holzland is the name of a region in the western part of the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
context_section_description: The quality and density of its stands of trees gives the Holzland ("wood land") its name. Even during times when large areas of the Palatine Forest were depleted by wood pasture practices, charcoal burning and mining, valuable stands of woodland survived for centuries in this area.
  Nevertheless, there were clearings here, mainly made in the 9th century in connection with the settlement arrangements of Hornbach Abbey, to whom the hitherto imperial estate had probably been gifted by the Count of Homburg. Lordship over the region was given to Electoral Palatinate. After the dissolution of Hornbach Abbey in 1558 in the wake of the Reformation these rights of ownership went to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, which, from then on, was in perpetual dispute with the Palatinate. As a result, in 1776 there was an exchange treaty, whereby Zweibrücken surrendered its rights in the Holzland to the Electorate.
caption: View of the Holzland from the Luitpold tower on the Weißenberg in the Holzland
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