The Palatine Forest (also called the Palatinate Forest) occupies about one third of the German region of Palatinate and is the largest contiguous stretch of forest in Germany. Studded with ancient castles and bizarre rock formations, it is also a nature park, popular with hikers and walkers, and part of the cross-border Palatine Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve which is shared with France. Through the centre of this wooded region runs the Palatine Watershed. The region is sparsely populated and relatively unspoilt.
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Wolfgang Brix - Fritz Claus - Wieland Elfferding - Andreas Jordan - Richard the Lionheart - Elisabeth Mahla - Carl Friedrich Müller-Palleske - Paul Münch - Karl Albrecht von Ritter - Franz von Sickingen - Hans von Trotha - Johannes von Wilenstein
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Neustadt an der Weinstraße Central Station: start of the Maximilian Railway
The Palatine Maximilian Railway (German: Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn or Maxbahn) is a railway line from the wine town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße to Wissembourg. Its name came from the Palatine Maximilian Railway Company who built the line that was its main centre of operations. The company was named, in turn, after the Bavarian monarch of that time, King Maximilian II [more...]
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