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The Palatinate is a paradise for Palatinate lovers, hobby bikers, hikers and culture enthusiasts and it offers the ideal pre­ requisites for everyone who wants a holiday experiments in the outdoor areas being active, relaxing and enjoying. Known for its zest for life, this region with its Mediterranean climate and unique cultural landscape inspires its people to celebrate life and invites its visitors to wholehearted­ ly join in. Whether in the Biosphere Reserve Pfälzerwald, travelling the length of the Route, in the plain or in the North Palatine Uplands: this is where your holiday really begins! discover And this leisure activity guide will help you discover what‘s happening where explore – regardless of what cultural, sporting challenge or outdoor recreation you are Further information on organizing your leisure time in the Palatinate, hiking trails and tracks, tour looking for. Arranged across the four participate guides and lots more can be found at: vacation regions of the Palatinate, this www.pfalz.de/en/leisure-fun leisure guide will show you the way to over 480 excursion tips for your vacation. There is something to be found for everyone in Pfalz.Touristik e.V. the Palatinate with its 150 , more Martin-Luther-Strasse 69 experience than 100 particularly sightseeing-worthy 67433 Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Tel. +49 (0)6321 3916-0 · Fax +49 (0)6321 3916-19 , stately manors and churches, [email protected] understand ... 60 pool parks and bathing www.pfalz.de/en · www.wandermenue-pfalz.de lakes, 9 golf courses and more than www.pfalz.de/facebook

150 attractions ranging from the „Zipline Sponsored by: Park“ in to a Roman ship.

Whatever you choose, have fun! Im Rheinberger • Fröhnstrasse 8 • 66954 • Phone: +49 (0) 6331 239430 Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. • Saturday · Sunday · Public holidays: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 3 Pfalzcard Page 6 The Diversity of the Palatinate The barrier-free Palatinate Page 7

The Palatinate

by Bus and Rail The Palatinate Hill Country Page 7 and mountain Vacation Region Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain Page 8

Rhine Plain Vacation Region Palatinate Rhine Plain Forest Experience technology from underwater up into space Page 20 www.technik-.de Vacation Region EXPLANATION OF PICTOGRAMS: Page 32 If you have the Pfalzcard, you can enjoy these facilities free of . In addition, you also ride free on all bus and rail connections in the entire VRN area! Exclusively for overnight guests staying at The Palatinate at a Glance Pfalzcard host facilities. Page 36

These facilities are certified according to the Vacation Region “Barrier-free travel for all” criteria. The German Wine Route These facilities provide offers in the indicated languages, e.g. signs, guided tours or Page 54 info material/brochures.

D1 All facilities are marked using a plan grid so that you can find them quickly and easily on the map The Palatinate at a Click on p. 36/37 (centre page of booklet). Page 70 HOTEL am Technik Museum 5 Dynamikum, Pirmasens

Experience the Palatinate – accessibility certified. The Palatinate Pfalzcard Have an eventful holiday – without having Barrier-Free to give up any comfort – that’s the guiding principle behind accessibility in . Applied, “Travel for All” means: Not only peo­ ple with disabilities, but also persons with bilities can discover a plethora of day excur­ Pfalzcard – the new visitor card for your baby carriages or older people profit from sions and authentic “Palatinate experience” Palatinate holiday. Starting in April 2018 building design features that have already outings ranging from the Nature Experience and exclusively at your Pfalzcard host been implemented at many accommodation Path to the “birthplace of German democra­ facilities. providers, recreational facilities, at wine­ cy”, the Hambach , and people-pow­ makers or in the public sphere in general. ered draisine trolley tours all the way to wine As of April 2018, guests visiting the As judged by the countrywide cellar tours and wine-tastings on-site at the Palatinate can experience over 80 sights – “Tourism for All”, . The trains, buses and regional included into their overnight stay – free of the Palatinate is a forerunner railways are likewise accessibility certified. charge! With the card, you can not only use in all things connected with the buses and regional railways in the entire accessibility in - i accessibility.romantic-.info transit area of the VRN (Verkehrsverbund Palatinate. Visitors with disa­ Rhein-) free of charge, but also a multitude of recreational facilities, e.g.: Castles and châteaus Family facilities such as Sealife The bus and rail system The Palatinate viaBus and Rail Speyer or the – your magic carpet to fun

Museums and exhibitions Wherever you want to go within the entire for families: with the 1-Person or 2-Person Wine tastings, guided tours region, you are on easy street if you use the Day Ticket, your children or grandchildren and cultural programmes buses and rail transit options of the VRN up to 14 years of age can ride with you free parks and golf courses (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar). Comfort­ of charge. Tickets for public transportation able, economical and all-inclusive with just are available at automatic vending machines one ticket. The ideal ticket for your leisure and other sales outlets as well as from bus Top off your Palatinate holiday with time is the Day Ticket, which is offered in driver and online (to be printed out). Fare in­ the Pfalzcard – by simply selecting a three price categories for up to five persons. formation is available on workdays Monday participating host for your overnight Starting at a price of € 6.70 for one person, to Friday 8 am to 5 pm. Timetable informa­ accommodations. By doing so, you will every additional person costs € 2.70 and up tion is available around-the-clock under +49 automatically receive at the time of (price schedule: January/2018) and is valid (0)621 1077077, or via the free timetable app check-in your own personal Pfalzcard free- for one calendar day until 3:00 am of the for all smartphones. of-charge for the duration of your stay. following day. Transport options include fortress tour all buses, streetcars and approved trains i www.vrn.de i www.pfalzcard.de (“RE” Regional Express, “RB” Regional, “S” Suburban trains). And the best advantage 6 7 Vacation Region Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain

View from the premium hiking trail “Preußensteig” on the Lichtenberg Castle in the Palatinate Hill Country ... don’t miss it!

You could easily fall in love with the expanse Donnersberg mountain of this landscape with its gently rolling hills, the Celtic in Steinbach fields and meadows, the small forests, streams and the vines of the and Zeller valley. The County town of Kusel district (“Musician’s Valley Land”) and the area surrounding the Donners- berg mountain, which with 687 metres is the highest point in the Palatinate, are retreats for people looking for peace and relaxation.

Full of atmosphere: the It is not a mountain, but rather a series Donnersberg mountain, “in of hills that are the distinctive feature of the Palatinate way up high” the neighbouring Palatinate hill country. The sparse beauty of this area enchants Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate the visitors today, but in earlier times the inhabitants of this area around the county town of Kusel did not have an easy life and were forced to work as travelling

Region Vacation musicians across the world in winter. Region Vacation The musicians’ county museum tells Tourist office Pfälzer Bergland Tel. +49 (0)6381 424270 about this era, and is one of many small [email protected] museums in which the people lovingly www.pfaelzerbergland.de maintain their traditions.

Hiking break in front of the There are many opportunities to let Castle in Meisenheim your mind and spirit relax and unwind, » There are many whether during hiking, cycling or opportunities to let canoeing. And whoever is looking for It is no wonder that the made them­ something a bit more unusual can book Donnersberg-Touristik-Verband e.V. your mind and spirit Tel. +49 (0)6352 1712 selves at home on the broad high plateau of the a pedal-powered rail trolley trip through relax and unwind: [email protected] Donnersberg. This time is brought to life once the picturesque Glan Valley. The peo‑ www.donnersberg-touristik.de again in the Celtic village and garden in Stein­ whether during ple are especially proud of their fresh bach. And everywhere around, the castle hiking, cycling or regional-typical products. Quaint farm and other cultural monuments bear testimony canoeing. « shops, distilleries and guest houses with i www.pfalz.de/en to the eventful history of this area. regional menus invite you to titillate your palate. 10 11 MUSEUMS AND Roman Museum, Eisenberg Palatinate Mining Museum, Museum of Local History with Fritz Quarry Museum, Walk-in History Book, D2 Wunderlich Memorial Room, Kusel A2 Schönenberg-Kübelberg OPEN-AIR Display of various exhibitions exca- D2 A2 Photos and documents lead the A3 EXPOSITIONS vated from the archaeological digs of History and present situation of Memorial pieces from times past and visitors through the backbreaking History comes alive along 3 paths. the Roman park as well as an early mining in the Palatinate with old audio documents, letters, original work in the “Dimpel”. The historic development of 3 millen- Christian era bread stamp. Guided hand craft items, unique items of costumes and photos from Fritz +49 (0)6381 9205770 nia comes alive vividly on the trails. Palatinate Stonecutting Museum, tours by arrangement. -manganese mining and lots Wunderlich. www.vg-kusel-.de +49 (0)6373 5040 Alsenz +49 (0)6351 41871 more. +49 (0)6381 8222 www.ohmbachsee-glantal.de C1 www.hist-verein-rosenthal.de +49 (0)6352 1712 www.fritz-wunderlich-ges.com Oven Museum, Reichenbach or +49 (0)6302 60261 Oil , St. Julian Exhibition on the history of stone- Roman Vicus, Eisenberg www.bew-imsbach.de Chainsaw Museum, A1 cutting and the Palatinate mottled 40 antique ovens from the last B2 with equipment, tools D2 Dollhouse Museum of the B1 three centuries. Built in 1730, this oil mill is the and video films. A cellar in original condition can be 30s and 50s, All aspects of chainsaws, including www.reichenbach-.de last still last still operable oil mill +49 (0)6362 3030 viewed within a protective building. the daily life of the lumbermen within and is run today for www.steinhauermuseum.de 4 reconstructed cellar, 1 bloomery D2 and lumberjacks. Open only by Kahnweiler House, demonstrational purposes. Listed furnaces, 2 sarcophagi and 2 Roman Approximately 65 lovingly assem- arrangement. as a historical monument, the site Museum of Local baking ovens. From May to October, bled dolls houses and individual +49 (0)6382 6355 C1/C2 is regarded as a masterpiece of old History it is possible to look over the shoul- items whisk you off into history. Spe- www.motorsaegenmuseum In the museum are two Kahnweiler mill construction. A3 ders of the excavating archaeologists cialities from the 1930s and 1950s. -lauterecken.de lithographies from Picasso; a photo +49 (0)171 2639076 during their digs. +49 (0)6357 7631 documentation on the biography www.sankt-julian.de Approx. 120 m2 of exhibition area +49 (0)6351 407440 or +49 (0)6357 7210 Radio Museum, of Kahnweiler and his German with extensive documentation and www.vicus-eisenberg.de www.puppenstubenmuseum.de Münchweiler/Alsenz language library can be seen. Celtic Village, Steinbach an impressive collection of exhibits. +49 (0)6361 451252 +49 (0)6386 1429 · www.vgog.de Museum in the UHL Haus, Göllheim Museum in the City Palace, D2 or +49 (0)6361 3440 D2 History of radio with photos, docu- www.rockenhausen.de The village shows the life, culture Golden Angel Museum, D2 mentary and acoustic information. and working life of the Celts and Objects and reconstructions relating D1 +49 (0)6302 5100 or (0)170 3323556 Museum of Time, Rockenhausen offers a creative programme. A1 to the history of Göllheim up to the Town and regional history of the www.rundfunkmuseum-rlp.de +49 (0)6352 1712 battle on the Hasenbühl in 1298 as “little residence”. , folklore, C1/C2 www.donnersberg-touristik.de New museum about the influences well as the doll collection from Karin hand crafts, original documents from Emigrants Museum, The farm estate is landmarked as a or www.keltendorf-steinbach.de of the Americans and the military . the revolution time 1848/1849. historic monument with astronom- Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate training area on the city and the mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate +49 (0)6351 490918 +49 (0)6352 401850 A2 ical clock tower and exhibits more Museum of Jewish Country Life, district administration. Opening in www.museum-uhlsches-haus.de www.museum-kirchheimbolanden.de Exhibition of the history and the than 50 tower clocks, sundials, water May 2018. social background of the wave clocks and sand glasses as well as a www.baumholder.de Villa Rustica, Culture House, of emigration in the 19th century. garden. A3 Herschweiler-Pettersheim Kübelberg +49 (0)6381 47853 +49 (0)6361 451252 or (0)6361 3430 At one time, more than 30% of the Alte Schmiede blacksmith, www.auswanderermuseum.de www.museum-fuer-zeit.de people in Steinbach were of the A3 A3 Jewish faith. This museum is dedi- Former Roman farm estate from Permanent exhibition revolving Radio Museum of Northern Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen cated to this unique fact. Region Vacation B2 Region Vacation the 2nd – 3rd century. It was the around the “Kübelberg court of Palatinate, +49 (0)6373 5040 Definitely setting the tone in this first object of this kind found in the justice”. Exhibition of with C1/C2 www.j-museum.vg-glm.de small village blacksmith’s shop are Rhineland-Palatinate region that works from Alois Metzger. C1 More than 2,000 works from more the forge, the great open fireplace remains as an open-air museum. +49 (0)6373 8952564 Technology and cultural history of than 280 German artists including “Musician’s Land” Museum of Burg with the glowing smithy fire and the +49 (0)6373 5040 www.schoenenberg-kuebelberg.de historic receivers from the 1920s names such as Otto Dix and Käthe Lichtenberg, smoke outlet built above. www.herschweiler-pettersheim.de through to the 1970s. Kollwitz. Noteworthy is the special +49 (0)6381 6735 +49 (0)6362 8167 exhibition “Palatinate Artists”. A2 www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de www.radiomuseum-nordpfalz.de +49 (0)6361 22136 Documentation of the history of the or +49 (0)6361 451252 travelling musicians. Demonstration “Farmer-Miners” Museum, www.rockenhausen.de pieces and original music bring the Breitenbach former lifestyle to life. A3 +49 (0)6381 8429 www.pfaelzerbergland.de An insight into the farming world and craftman’s tools of the farmer- Primeval Museum Geoskop, Burg miners. Lichtenberg, Thallichtenberg +49 (0)6373 5040 · www.vgog.de A2 Diamond Cutting Museum, Brücken Insights into the Permo-Carboniferous A3 geological era with fossils from 290-250 million years ago, including Representation of the history and the “great white shark” of western business of the diamond industry Palatinate. from the end of the 18th century to +49 (0)6381 993451 the present time. www.urweltmuseum-geoskop.de +49 (0)6386 993168 Diamond Cutting Museum, Primeval Museum Geoskop, Castle Oil Mill, St. Julian Celtic Village, Steinbach www.diamantschleifermuseum.de Brücken Lichtenberg Thallichtenberg 12 13 Museum premises of Castle Ruin Neuwolfstein, Historic Baroque Church, Castle Church, August Drumm, Ulmet Wolfstein Gimsbach Meisenheim am Glan B2 B2 A2 B1/C1 Exhibition room with works by the The castle ruins are situated directly A historico-cultural treasure in the Late Gothic, three . sculptor August Drumm. over the little city and dominate the region with its unique woodcarvings Especially worth seeing are the +49 (0)6381 1261 city’s appearance as well as offering on the pews, lattices and . pulpit, Stumm organ and the 7 www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de a wide vista over Wolfstein and the +49 (0)6383 5551 expressionist choir windows from Lautertal valley. www.historische-barockkirche.de Prof. Amann. Jewish Museum, www.vg-lw.de +49 (0)6753 121500 with Church www.pfalznah.de C2 and Ruin Michelsburg, Jewish history of the Northern Palati- Haschbach St. Valentine's , nate and the history of Winnweiler. CHURCHES & Oberndorf +49 (0)6302 1256 · www.jüdisches A2 -museum-winnweiler.de MONUMENTS The church was once an affiliated C1 of the abbey of St. Remy Late Gothic, easterly orientated Museum for Photography and Castle Lichtenberg, Thallichtenberg Hane Monastery, near . Under the choir is the single nave construction made of Photographic Craft, Winnweiler family vault of the earls of . unrendered quarried stone in the C2 +49 (0)6381 424270 middle of an unwalled graveyard. around the château. Reopening in D1 www.remigiusberg.de Pyramid roof, abat-son, frescoes, etc. Historic studio, photographic, CASTLES & August 2018. Founded around 1120 with a church +49 (0)6362 2411 darkroom and other film accessories www.lauterecken.de that must have been a triple-nave Monastery Ruin Rosenthal, www.donnersberg-touristik.de as well as photo gallery, alternating CHÂTEAUS . Today the monastery is a -Rosenthal exhibitions. Ruin Moschellands Castle, beautiful location for concerts and D2 Propsteikirche, +49 (0)6302 1256 Castle Ruin Stauf, Eisenberg-Stauf Obermoschel exhibitions. Offenbach-Hundheim www.fotomuseum-winnweiler.de Ruins of the abbey church of the D2 +49 (0)6352 4004-0 or (0)6352 6199 C1 www.kirchheimbolanden.de former Cistercian monastery. Guided B1/B2 Printers Museum with brass musi- Oldest Salic castle in the Palatinate, The floor plan has all the features of tours (also through the small muse- Constructed from hewn sandstone cal instrument workshop, Wolfstein which was destroyed after the peas- a medieval castle. Following its de- Wolfskirche, um premises) by arrangement. blocks and belonging to the former B2 ant uprising of 1525. Incredible view. struction in 1689, it is only possible +49 (0)6352 1712 or (0)6351 407401 Benedictine monastery of St. Maria, +49 (0)6351 407440 today to imagine its imposing size. www.hist-verein-rosenthal.de the church is today called “Abbey A completely functional “Regina” www.vg-eisenberg.de +49 (0)6352 1712 B2 Church”. A blooming pilgrimage Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate platen jobbing press from the year www.donnersberg-touristik.de Vault fresco paintings from the Protestant Courtyard commerce enabled its erection in 1903. An instrument workshop for Castle Ruins Falkenstein 14th century with an iconographic and City Church St. Paul, 1230 AD. brass instruments with information C2/D2 Moated Castle “Tiefburg”, special feature: Christ’s entry on the Kirchheimbolanden +49 (0)6382 532 concerning the wandering musicians so-called “Palm Donkey”, which one www.offenbach-hundheim.de in the Kuseler “Musician’s Land”. Rising almost 100 m vertically above otherwise encounters in the art of D1 Guided tours by arrangement. the village of Falkenstein, the castle B1 the 6th century in Ravenna. Baroque absolutist courtyard and Zweikirche, Rutsweiler +49 (0)6304 214 · www.vg-lw.de sits on top of the rugged Melaphyr It is the best preserved moated +49 (0)6381 424270 city church that forms a unit with an der cliffs. the château and château garden. Region Vacation castle in the Palatinate. The arched www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de Region Vacation +49 (0)6352 1712 or (0)6302 60261 rooms in the interior are home to Stumm organ which Mozart played B2 www.donnersberg-touristik.de a . With adjoining Parish Church, on in 1778. There are regular organ The church is one of the oldest in the of . Finkenbach-Gersweiler concerts. Palatinate. The name signifies two Frauenburg Castle, Frauenberg +49 (0)6381 424270 +49 (0)6352 40040 churches of a village that has since C1 A1 www.reipoltskirchen.com www.kirchheimbolanden.de disappeared. The building is characterized by the +49 (0)6304 221 · www.vg-lw.de Castle grounds dating from 13th cen- Castle Lichtenberg, late-Gothic style and displays the tury, which was erected to safeguard Thallichtenberg Passion Cycle with 17 murals (from the Nahe river transition area. Up around 1500 AD). until 1330, the castle was renovated A2 +49 (0)6352 1712 and expanded and served as the With a length of 425 m, it is one of www.donnersberg-touristik.de ”Musician‘s Land“ Museum, Castle widow’s seat of Countess Loretta the largest castle ruins in Germany. Lichtenberg, Thallichtenberg von . Open all year round. www.vgv-baumholder.de +49 (0)6381 8429 www.pfaelzerbergland.de Veldenz Château with Veldenz tower in Lauterecken Castle Ruin Altwolfstein, Wolfstein B1 B2 First mentioned in 1343, it was Castle grounds dating from 12th expanded on multiple occasions. It century. Remaining are the 22 m has been preserved as an admin- high, pentagonal keep and a part istration building and barn up to of the enclosing wall. Freely accessi- today. Late-Gothic style cellar. In ble with a very beautiful view of the earlier times, the Veldenz tower was surrounding area. Castle Ruins Falkenstein part of the circularly enclosing walls www.vg-lw.de Monastery Ruin Rosenthal Zweikirche, 14 15 English landscape park of the 19th quarried for cement manufacture, century. The manor garden contains visitors can discover the geological precious trees, water courses and is composition and origin dating from surrounded by sandstone walls with the times when an ancient lake once wrought iron gates. and is accessible lapped the shores here. for everyone. +49 (0)6351 490918 +49 (0)6352 40040 www.vg-goellheim.de www.kirchheimbolanden.de Nature Experience Path at , Ramsen NATURE D2 Paved path with viewing platform, EXPERIENCES access for wheelchair occupants to Eiswoog and rowboats. Children’s Donnersberg – the highest playground, fish breeding industry Palatinate mountain (687 m) can be viewed, hotel / gastronomy. Mining Adventure World, Imsbach Trolley fun tour from Altenglan to Golf club at Donnersberg mountain, Swimming facility. Guided tours by Börrstadt D2 arrangement. Celtic Donnersberg with Celtic wall +49 (0)6351 407440 Flurskapelle (Meadow ), Swamp Forest Railway, and Celtic path. Viewing tower, www.eisenberg.de Ulmet TOURISTIC EXCURSION RAIL- Eiswoog near Ramsen Ludwig tower, TV tower, Adlerbo- gen monument (“archer’s bow”), B2 MINING SITES WAYS & DRAISINE D2 Königsstuhl Rock (“king’s seat”). This parish church in Ulmet is num- TOURS The line of the narrow gauge railway Hiking and refreshment options GOLF bered among the oldest churches Mining Adventure World, Imsbach is approx. 4 km long, between available. in the central Glan Valley. It has Eiswoog and the western edge of +49 (0)6352 1712 Rolling Hills Golfclub, Baumholder been called “Flurskapelle” (Meadow D2 Draisine trolley tour, Ramsen. Trips are only possible on www.donnersberg-touristik.de Chapel) for centuries. “White mine” and “Maria mine” with Cycle on Rails Sundays and public holidays. A1 +49 (0)6387 223 accessible underground galleries can A2 +49 (0)6356 8035 Adventure Landscape The 9-hole golf course on an Ameri- www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de be visited in this mine. Copper, silver, www.stumpfwaldbahn.de Erdekaut, Eisenberg can military base is freely accessible. The exceptional experience on an cobalt and iron ore were mined here. At an elevation of 500 m, it has 10 exceptional vehicle. On offer are D2 Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate St. Philipp, +49 (0)6302 60261 driving ranges (4 with canopy) and mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate evening trips, combined trips, winter -Zell or +49 (0)6302 6020 Round-trip walking paths, view- a club house. trips, vouchers and barrier-free www.bew-imsbach.de points and adventure playgrounds. +49 (0)6783 8788 offers. GARDENS & PARKS E1 The boulder mine pit building www.baumholder-golf.de One of the most significant religious Touristic chalk mine +49 (0)6381 424270 contains a small mining museum Park der Sinne (Park of the Senses), buildings of the 18th century in at Königsberg, Wolfstein www.draisinentour.de and can be viewed by visitors. Golfclub am Donnersberg e.V., the Donnersberg mountain region. B2 +49 (0)6351 407440 Börrstadt Arched hall, splendid rococo altar, Gartenbahn, Börrstadt D1 www.eisenberg.de Region Vacation Experience hard mining work 50 m D2 Region Vacation gilded woodcarvings, hexagonal D2 The “park of the senses” invites you baptismal font. below the earth’s surface. Additional On the southern slope of the Park with rail network, a replica rail- to indulge your neglected senses +49 (0)6355 1053 or (0)6351 490918 guided tours on Rhineland-Palati- Geopark Dachsberg, Göllheim Donnersberg mountain, the 18-hole way station in its original size, signal with Kneipp pools, barefoot paths, www.donnersberg-touristik.de nate holidays. “Unter Tage” – wine golf course offers an extensive view box, tunnel, bridge and railway water prisms and lots more. D2 tasting under ground! The exception- across the landscape right down to crossing with barriers. Fun for big +49 (0)6357 1614 al experience in the tunnels between Situated on the property of the the Rhine plain. and small! www.dannenfels.de bizarre stone formations. former stone pit in which limestone +49 (0)6357 96094 +49 (0)6382 791118 +49 (0)6357 989565 from the Tertiary period was & ANIMAL Landscape Park Friedrich www.golfamdonnersberg.de www.kalkbergwerk.com www.gartenbahn-boerrstadt.de OBSERVATION von Gienanth, Eisenberg D2 Wildpark and Falconry, The park originated between 1826 /Föckelberg and 1834 as an English garden. An B2 orangery and a mausoleum can be viewed. Annual wild garlic festival. Stone and sika deer, red deer, fallow Guided tours on weekdays for groups deer, moufflons, wild boars and un- by appointment. tamed horses romp about on 25 hec- +49 (0)6351 43171 tares of land. The raptor bird flight or +49 (0)6351 125612 show is also in English and there is a www.landschaftspark special flying show for children. -von-gienanth.de +49 (0)6385 6749 www.wildpark-potzberg.de Manor house garden, Kirchheimbolanden Chalk mine in Wolfstein Adlerbogen monument (“archer‘s D1 bow”) on Donnersberg mountain The green oasis in the middle of Eiswoog, Ramsen 16 the city that reminds you of an 17 SPORT & PLAY with 10-metre diving tower, small Open-air Pool, Winnweiler “TRANSPARENT” Coffee Manufacture Reismühle, children’s pool. C2 +49 (0)6351 407440 A3 3 D Bow-hunting Course / www.vg-eisenberg.de Heated open-air pool (22°C) with Bow-shooting, 50-metre swimming pool, 5-metre & PRODUCTION Enjoy coffee from different growing Solarfreibad Open-air Pool, diving tower, mother-child area, and regions across the world. A choice B2 Gimsbach much more. selection of teas and chocolates. Outdoors adventure sport with bow +49 (0)6302 2716 House on the Culinary +49 (0)6384 925771 and arrow – for the whole family! A2 www.winnweiler-vg.de Country Road, www.reismuehle.info Tel.: +49 (0)6304 8013 “Leisure time oasis” with special A2 offers such as night swimming. Königsberg Open-air Pool, Brewery Bischoff, or +49 (0)6304 993066 Regional self-marketers and their +49 (0)6383 7620 Football and Farmgolf, Konken Wolfstein Winnweiler www.schuetzenverein-hinzweiler.de partners from Finland, and www..de B2 offer their specialities under C2 Football and Farmgolf, Konken a single roof – everything from Rüllbergbad Pool, Natural Experience Pool, Modern, heated open-air pool Viewing of the private brewery A2 Rockenhausen park with children’s playground, liqueurs to goats cheese to Calvados Bischoff by appointment. schnapps. Course with 18 courses. B1 non-swimmer pool, swimmer pool +49 (0)6302 912144 C1/C2 +49 (0)6384 993230 +49 (0)6384 5140415 Laps pool with diving tower, and diving pool. www.bischoff-bier.de Bathing without chemicals and www.kulinarisches-haus.de www.fussball-bauernhofgolf.de non-swimmer pool and water slide, +49 (0)6304 7808 · www.vg-lw.de baby pool and kiosk. chlorine gas. The extensive 15,400 2 +49 (0)6382 1260 m pool landscape and bathing com- www.ruellbergbad.de plex is nestled harmoniously in the SWIMMING POOLS, natural environment and conveys an Open-air pool, unadulterated “holiday feeling”. LAKES & WATER- +49 (0)6361 451252 B2 www.rockenhausen.de SPORTS A small-but-great open-air pool for those hot summer days. Lake, Sport and Leisure Pool Park, +49 (0)151 12343516 or Schönenberg-Kübelberg Altenglan +49 (0) 6385 993010 · www.vg-lw.de A3 A2/B2 Kibobad Swimming Pool Park, Leisure park with 15 hectares of “Haus der Kulinarischen Landstraße” Open-air Pool, Winnweiler Coffee Manufacture Reismühle 50-metre pool, splash and play pools, Kirchheimbolanden water area, ideal for recreation, relax- marketing their own products in Konken Palatinate Hill Country and Donnersberg mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate 1-metre and 3-metre diving board, ation, having fun and celebrating. mountain and Donnersberg Country Hill Palatinate non-swimmer pool, 60-metre giant D1 Water playground with giant slide. slide. Swimmer and non-swimmer pools, Directly adjoining with a hotel and TOURIST INFORMATION +49 (0)6381 4250266 children’s fun pools with pirate ship campsite. www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de and much more! +49 (0)6373 5040 +49 (0)6352 4004700 www.ohmbachsee-glantal.de District administration of District administration of Tourist office City Lake, Baumholder www.kibobad.de Alsenz-Obermoschel Göllheim Verbandsgemeinde Meisenheim Warmfreibad warmwater +49 (0)6362 30325 +49 (0)6351 490918 +49 (0)6753 121500 Region Vacation Region Vacation A1 “In der ” Open-air Pool, open-air pool, www.alsenz-obermoschel.de www.vg-goellheim.de www.pfalznah.de Bathing weir directly in the centre Meisenheim with sunbathing meadow and sandy A3 District administration of District administration of Tourist office beach. Free admission, very suitable B1/C1 Slide, large swimming pool, Baumholder Kirchheimbolanden for children. Barrier-free pool with 1,007 m2 water sunbathing lawn and kiosk. +49 (0)6783 8116 +49 (0)6352 4004115 +49 (0)6373 5040 +49 (0)6783 8116 area. Bubble loungers, massage jets, +49 (0)6373 8917134 www.vgv-baumholder.de www.kirchheimbolanden.de www.vgog.de www.vgv-baumholder.de wide water slide, paddling pool, div- or +49 (0)6373 5040 ing tower and six 25-metre lanes. www.vgog.de Tourist office Dannenfels District administration of District administration of Open-air Pool, Bosenbach +49 (0)6753 121500 +49 (0)6357 1614 Kusel-Altenglan Rockenhausen www.pfalznah.de www.dannenfels.de +49 (0)6381 6080 +49 (0)6361 451252 B2 www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de www.rockenhausen.de Swimmer pool, 3-metre diving tower, Eiswoog, Ramsen District administration of non-swimmer pool, paddling pool Eisenberg District administration of District administration of +49 (0)6385 925226 D2 +49 (0)6351 407440 Lauterecken-Wolfstein Winnweiler www.vg-kusel-altenglan.de See “NATURE EXPERIENCES” www.vg-eisenberg.de +49 (0)6382 7910 +49 (0)6302 60261 category www.vg-lw.de www.winnweiler-vg.de Waldschwimmbad Forest Swimming Pool, Eisenberg D2 PICTURE CREDITS Pages 01 – 19 50-metre laps pool, fun pool Pfalz.Touristik e.V., ad lumina: Cover picture – Boating fun on the Old Rhine in the southern Palatinate · Pfalz.Touristik e.V., Haltner: p. 6, with 83-metre giant slide, “water upper · Südpfalz-Tourismus Landkreis Germersheim e.V., Norman P. Krauss: p. 6 lower · Pfalz.Touristik e.V., Dominik Ketz: p. 8 · District mushroom”, water rapids channel, administration of Meisenheim: p. 10 · Donnersberg-Touristik-Verband e.V.: p. 11, p. 13 right, p. 14 lower, p. 15 left, p. 16 upper left, p. 16 lower massage jets, floor bubble-spray right, p. 17 lower and upper · Fremdenverkehrszweckverband Pfälzer Bergland (tourism office for Palatine mountainous country): p. 12 jets, floating water-beds, diving pool middle, p. 15 right, p. 16 upper right, p. 18 lower left, p. 19 middle · Primeval Museum GEOSKOP: p. 12 right lower, p. 14 upper, p. 14 middle · Pfalz. Touristik e.V.: p. 13 left · District administration of Lauterecken-Wolfstein: p. 16 lower left · District administration of Rockenhausen: p. 18 Sport and Leisure Pool Park, Natural Experience Pool, right · Football and Farmgolf, Konken: p. 18 upper · District administration of Winnweiler: p. 19 left · Coffee Manufacture Reismühle: p. 19 right 18 Altenglan Rockenhausen 19 Vacation Region Rhine Plain

The idyllic Old Rhine in southern Palatinate ... don’t miss it! The Palatinate Rhine Plains entices you to get on your bike: The landscape is criss-crossed by an extensive Extensive network of level cycling paths

Rhine plain network of level cycling paths where you ride through Rhine plain acred fields, scenic with A paradise for vegetable lovers half-timbered façades and small » The country lives off the & Rheinauen nature reserves forests along the way. land and the fertile farmland UNESCO world cultural heritage site

Region Vacation The country lives off the land, provides a whole range of Region Vacation and the fertile farmland provides delicious treats such as In 1573, the very first tobacco plants in a whole range of delicious treats asparagus, strawberries Germany were grown in the district of Germers­ such as asparagus, strawberries heim. And when the holidaymakers cycle today or “new potatoes”. Creative chefs or ‘new potatoes’. « in the southern Palatinate along the tobacco find everything they need here paths through the pink blossoming fields, they for their fresh food kitchens, and holiday guests can buy may even see storks in the meadows. what takes their fancy at the side of the road or in the numerous farm shops. Decide for yourself whether you want to Südpfalz-Tourismus swim, sail, or canoe – or, maybe, just lie in the Landkreis Germersheim e.V. Thisparadise for vegetables is bordered by the flow sun for a while. Even a rowing trip with an Tel. +49 (0)7274 53300 of the Rhine and a landscape of inimitable charm: the original reproduction of a Roman ship “Lusoria [email protected]/en www.suedpfalz-tourismus.de alluvial forests with their lush vegetation, inviting man- Rhenana” is possible. A lot of fun with a histori­ made ponds and dreamy old arms of the Rhine, which, cal background to boot! for example, can be explored on the premium Treidler­ weg (“tow path”) trail in the Hördter Rheinaue wetlands A further insiders tip for nature lovers is the nature reserve. Bienwald, a unique protected area rich in flora and fauna. Tourist office Stadt Speyer Tel. +49 (0)6232 142392 The more than 2000 year old imperial city [email protected] of Speyer enchants you with the coexistence www.speyer.de of its living history and the joie de vivre for the present age. In addition to monuments and museums, the city is the home to the magnif­ icent UNESCO world cultural heritage listed cathedral with the imperial graves, built in 1030 Kreisverwaltung Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis by the Salian monarch Konrad II. Abteilung Umwelt und Planung Tel. +49 (0)621 5909-414 [email protected] The Maximilianstraße and Speyer prome­ www.rhein-pfalz-kreis.de nade convey a certain Mediterranean character with the quirky vivacity of its cafés and shops and the grace of its baroque houses that say a i www.pfalz.de/en UNESCO world cultural heritage monument lot about the Palatinate way of living – the Speyer Cathedral 22 23 Museum - Gallery - Atelier, Zehnthaus (“ House”), MUSEUMS & Germersheim Exhibition “Life and work in E6 earlier times”, OPEN-AIR F5 Charming art gallery in an excep- EXPOSITIONS In the old city walls in the Fronte tional half-timber house. Varied E5 Lamotte city park you can find the programme of events with art exhibi- Exhibition in a typical farm from the architecturally impressive studio and tions as well as musical and literary 1930s. Household and agricultural Historic Mittelmühle, Rhine plain exhibition rooms of the renowned events. equipment, tools, barn and farmers Rhine plain Palatinate sculptor Prof. Karl-Heinz +49 (0)7271 52138 garden. E5 Deutsch. www.zehnthaus.de +49 (0)7272 6047 +49 (0)7271 5595 Historico-cultural site on the former www.germersheim.eu Museum Jockgrim Terra Sigillata Museum, border between France and Germa- Rheinzabern ny, now the centre of Bellheim today. E6 Exhibitions, guided tours, water/ Railway Friends Interest The museum documents the E5

Region Vacation wind-mill festivals, action days. Region Vacation Community Germersheim e.V. more than 100 year history of the Documentation of the rich Roman Opened per arrangement. manufacture of and other past of the locality. Exhibits of the +49 (0)7272 932642 F5 clay products in the former grooved “Porcelain of the Romans” and the www.kulturverein-bellheim.de Largest model railway in Rhine- tiles factory Ludowici, formerly the hoard find from a gravel quarry land-Palatinate state. market leader in Europe. as well as metal booty items of a Terra Sigillata Museum, Rheinzabern Museum of Local History, +49 (0)7274 919683 +49 (0)7271 52895 Germanic tribe. Alternating special www.modellbahnfreunde www.ziegeleimuseum-jockgrim.de exhibits. E6 -germersheim.de +49 (0)7272 955893 Museum of Local History www.terra-sigillata-museum.de From early history up to the 20th City and Fortress Museum, century. Alternating exhibitions Germersheim F5 Cigar Museum, Rödersheim focussing on traditional craftsman Old everyday items such as house- trades. Collection of tools, equipment F5 hold items and hand crafting items E3 and utensils used in , agri- The history of the ex-fortress town and an insight into the brickworks Social-historic cigar factory museum culture and daily domestic life. Germersheim with numerous exhib- previously located in the village. The of the Palatinate. +49 (0)6340 5324 its and a precisely detailed model museum includes a historic class- +49 (0)176 32576635 of the former fortress. Highlighted room, a bedroom and a kitchen from www.zigarrenmuseum Potato Museum, Fußgönheim are various handicrafts, such as of yesteryear and an old watchhouse -roedersheim-gronau.de E3 rolling cigarettes, and from 1835. the manufacture of enamel signs are +49 (0)7272 8318 Wrestler museum, Schifferstadt Interesting facts about potatoes. offered. www.suedpfalztourismus +49 (0)6237 92966 +49 (0)7274 703323 -ruelzheim.de F3 www.deutscheskartoffelmuseum.de www.germersheim.eu A club to preserve the culture of Museum of Local History wrestling as a sport. German Museum of Road Brick Museum, “Fischerhaus”, +49 (0)6235 98748 Construction, Germersheim Bridge over Rhine River, Speyer Germersheim-Sondernheim www.ringermuseum.de F5 F5 F5 A look at the lives of the day labour- Archaeological Window, The only museum of its kind in Ger- “Art in The Open” (Kunst auf Museum of Local History, Located in the manufacturing ers who served the fishermen and Speyer many that deals exclusively with the öffentlichen Flächen), plant is an exhibition with original farmers. Open fire with flue and subject of the road. The impressive documents, photos and stories from oven, where even today an old type E6 F5 F4 number of exhibits brings the his- the former owners and employees. of bread is baked during festivities. About 50 sculptures are exhibited in Small and well-maintained local his- An alternating exhibition of tory of road building over time and Special feature: Ride on the field rail +49 (0)7272 2624 the public sphere within the “art and tory museum. Exhibition of village pre-Christian and early Christian advances in technology to life. network. rose village” of Minfeld. The central and farm life. Speciality: old hand in the Palatinate. +49 (0)7274 500500 +49 (0)7152 339512 exhibition loci are the Mundoplatz, crafts. Church robes and literature “Transparent workshop” for insights www.deutsches-strassenmuseum.de www.ziegelei-sondernheim.de the plaza in front of the Protestant from the repertoire of the song writer into the daily work of a restorer. Church and the path to the cemetery. Josef Loy. +49 (0)6232 670657 +49 (0)7275 619945 +49 (0)7272 8761 www.archaeologie-speyer.de www.suedpfalz-tourismus-.de www.neupotz.de

House “Living by the Rhine”, Oldtimer Barn, Neupotz F5 E5 A unique exhibition in the state Local history museum with historic giving an impression of the struggle blacksmiths and bakehouse. Demon- between people and waters strations of traditional craftsman- today and in the past. Tours along ship in the blacksmith and bakery. the polder possible on request. Opening times by arrangement. +49 (0)7272 7000261 +49 (0)162 2540232 www.leben-am-strom.de www.oldtimerfreunde-ottersheim.de Fortress in Germersheim Brick Museum Jockgrim Archaeological Window, Speyer 24 25 Museum of Local History, Winden Protestant Church, Minfeld E5 E6 The museum is entirely situated be- Roman Church (11th century) with hind glass and is therefore viewable nearly completely preserved piscina at all times. Exhibition of farming and precious medieval painted implements ranging from the straw murals. Open for visitors on Sundays

Rhine plain cutter and liquid manure slurry and public holidays after religious Rhine plain reservoir to the hooped cart and services. cattle collars. +49 (0)7275 913080 +49 (0)7275 619945 www.kirche-minfeld-winden.de www.suedpfalz-tourismus-kandel.de Altpörtel, Speyer

St. Georg’s Tower, Kandel Jewish Courtyard, Speyer Technology Museum, Speyer F4 Region Vacation CHURCHES, One of the highest (55 m) city gates Region Vacation in Germany. The lower section was Elwedritsche Museum, Speyer Jewish Courtyard with Museum Purrmann House, Speyer MONUMENTS & constructed between 1230 and F4 SchPIRA + Mikwe, Speyer F4 1250 AD; the upper tower level with PLACES OF late-Gothic tracery balustrade and ar- All the interesting knowledge about F4 Birth house and parental home of INTEREST cades was added between 1512 and Altpörtel, Speyer the fables Palatinate animal, the “El- The medieval and the 10 the painter Hans Purrmann, friend 1514. Vantage point and exhibition wedritsche”, the funny but extremely metre deep bath for ritual washing and student of Henri Matisse. of the city fortifications. shy and difficult to track fowl. built before 1128 AD (Hebrew: Permanent exhibition of more Fortifications of the +49 (0)6232 142392 · www.speyer.de Memorial Church, Speyer +49 (0)6232 9005050 Mikvah) is the oldest of its kind in than 70 works. City of Germersheim www.elwedritsche-museum.de Germany, together with the museum +49 (0)6232 142020 · www.speyer.de F4 F5 Jewish Community Centre with SchPIRA they make up the Jewish The neo-Gothic church built between Explore and experience the his- Synagogue “Beith Schalom”, Speyer Feuerbachhaus, Speyer Courtyard. Sophie-La-Roche House, Speyer 1893 and 1904 to commemorate the torico-cultural and architectural +49 (0)6232 291971 F4 “Protestation” of Speyer. Particularly F4 F4 sights of the former fortress fortifica- www.speyer.de The synagogue was completed in noteworthy are the organ and cycles tions on the “Fortress walking tour”. Birth house of the painter Anselm Memorial for the writer Sophie La 2011. Important centre for Jewish of stained windows. Fortress and city tours can be booked Feuerbach, one of the most impor- Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Roche, opened on the event of her life in Speyer. Religious services, +49 (0)6232 6670 at Tourist Information in the Weißen- tant painters of the 19th century Speyer 275th birthday. events and guided tours. www.gedaechtniskirche.de burger Tor. +49 (0)06232 70448 +49 (0)6232 142392 · www.speyer.de +49 (0)6232 9901761 · www.jkgrp.de www.feuerbachhaus.de F4 +49 (0)7274 960301/302/303 Imperial Cathedral of Speyer Alternating and special exhibitions www.germersheim.eu Technology Museum Speyer Dreifaltigkeitskirche of the art club and city gallery. House of the -Palatinate and IMAX-Dome, Speyer (“Trinity Church”), Speyer F4 , Speyer +49 (0)6232 142399 F4 St. Georg’s Church and The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer is F4 St. Georg’s Tower, Kandel F4 one of the most important examples Marine Exhibition, Speyer On open-air grounds of more than Built as a Lutheran church between of Romanesque and 2 E6 Certificates, documents and old 150,000 m you can find subma- 1701 and 1712 following the ex- is the largest remaining intact F4 Protestant Parish Church with historic photographs of the carnival customs rines, aircraft, cars, locomotives and ample of the Katharinen- Romanesque church in Europe. Stiehr organ. Remains of a late-Gothic in Northern and Central Baden and Collection of detailed scale models ships. A further visitor attraction is kirche. Impressive are the opulently Since 1981 the cathedral is listed as style church (1475) with Saint Georg’s the Palatinate. of ships (on the grounds of the Tech- the IMAX Dome cinema, Boeing 747, painted wood vault ceiling and the a world cultural heritage monument Tower (1519) on the west side. The +49 (0)6232 41940 nology Museum Speyer) Space Shuttle “Buran” and a coast wooden carved figures on the pulpit, by UNESCO. church can be viewed within the www.webmuseen.de/ +49 (0)6232 67080 guard rescue cruiser. alter and gallery. +49 (0)6232 102118 itinerary of a guided city tour. fastnachtsmuseum-speyer.html www.technik-museum.de +49 (0)6232 67080 +49 (0)6232 629958 www.bistum-speyer.de +49 (0)7275 619945 www.technik-museum.de www.dreifaltigkeitskirche-speyer.de Historic Museum of the www.suedpfalz-tourismus-kandel.de Palatinate, Speyer F4 Cultural historic collection com- prised of exhibits ranging from ancient history to the present day, cathedral treasure, wine museum and special exhibitions. +49 (0)6232 620222 www.museum.speyer.de

Johann-Joachim-Becher-Haus, Speyer F4 Memorial to the learned and impor- tant son of Speyer. +49 (0)6232 142392 · www.jjbg.de Historic Museum of the Palatinate, Speyer Memorial Church, Speyer Synagogue, Speyer 26 27 OUTING TRAINS “Spirit of Garden”, Rülzheim Observatory, Bellheim CLIMBING E5 E5 & HANDCAR A garden experience of a special Watch the stars with expert assis- GARDENS, SPORT TROLLEYS kind on 10,000 m2. Can be viewed by tance! Once per month or on request. & PLAY arrangement. +49 (0)7276 9892042 +49 (0)7272 92980 www.sternwarte-bellheim.de Southern Palatinate Handcars, Fun Forest AbenteuerPark, Kandel Rhine plain or +49 (0)151 59232348 Rhine plain -Westheim www.spirit-of-garden.de Bienwald Forest Information E6 Center, Steinfeld E4/E5 14 climbing parcours through the Adenauer Park, Speyer The 12-kilometre long route is D6 treetops of the Bienwald Forest. ideal for a leisurely journey with F4 Experience the unique fauna and +49 (0)7275 618032 the family as well as an excursion Botanical treasure trove in the vicin- flora of the Bienwald Forest with www.funforest.de/kandel for a club or company. ity of the rail station. Final resting expert guides.

Region Vacation +49 (0)6344 9442670 place of former Federal Chancellor +49 (0)6340 508190 FOOTBALL-GOLF Adamshof, Kandel Region Vacation www.suedpfalzdraisine.de . www.bienwald.info E6 +49 (0)6232 142392 · www.speyer.de Aquarium, Speyer Outdoor fun and physical activity in nature via 2 courses, each with GARDENS & PARKS GOLF 18 “holes”. Fun for kids, adults and St. Joseph, Speyer Sea Life Aquarium, NATURE “pro” football-golfers. Suitable for F4 Speyer celebrations, club events, company European Culture Park, Kandel Golfpark Kurpfalz AG, outings and much more. Erected in 1912 – 1914. Drawing F4 EXPERIENCES Limburgerhof +49 (0)178 1417788 particular attention are the large Dive into the fascination of the E6 www.fussgolf.com surface area windows with figurative native and tropical undersea worlds. Ideal for relaxing walks around the Geocaching in Bellheim F3 and decorative . “Sea” and learn more about the Schwanenweiher (“Swan Pond”). E5 +49 (0)6236 479494 Corn Labyrinth, Leimersheim +49 (0)6232 102-140 inhabitants of our rivers, lakes and Numerous sculptures and a large, www.golfclub-kurpfalz.de www.kirchen-in-speyer.de seas. nature-oriented playground. Interactive treasure hunt using GPS, F5 round-trips through the neighbour- +49 (0)1806 66690101 +49 (0)7275 619945 Fun and adventure are guaranteed hoods and surrounding nature. GPS Monastery Church of www.sealife.de www.suedpfalz-tourismus-kandel.de with the 2.5 hectare corn labyrinth. devices can be rented. St. Magdalena, Speyer +49 (0)172 9802720 +49 (0)7272 7008-101 www.maislabyrinth-leimersheim.de F4 www.suedpfalz-tourismus The baroque edifice was consecrated -vg-bellheim.de City & Quest Speyer in 1717. The monastery contains a memorial for Edith Stein. F4 +49 (0)6232 25081 Rheinaue Wetlands / The city puzzle game is really a www.kloster-st-magdalena Bienwald Forest Nature Reserves sightseeing adventure in which -speyer.de visitors can independently discover The Rheinaue wetlands landscape of the southern Palatinate fasci- the imperial city of Speyer and its Friedenskirche St. Bernhard cathedral in an exciting way. (“Church of Peace”), Speyer nates visitors by means of its untouched state and its extraordinary flora and fauna. The “Palatinate primeval forest” is earmarked by vir- +49 (0)176 38003103 www.cityquest-tour.de F4 gin riparian woods, clear ponds and lakes, widespread wooded areas Constructed in 1953 – 1954 as a joint and picturesque arms of the Old Rhine whose paths meander until Kletterwald Speyer French and German project. +49 (0)6232 102-140 they finally find their way to the straight-away of the Rhine ar- F4 tery. In the furthest south of the Palatinate on the border to France lies www.kirchen-in-speyer.de Unique leisure enjoyment for the 12,000 hectares of the Bienwald Forest, the largest wooded area in families, clubs, school classes and Ostrich Farm, Rülzheim Handcar trolleys, Bornheim-Westheim the Palatinate Rhine plain. With its babbling brooks and gnarled, old companies. Fun for young and old in ZOOS & ANIMAL oaks, the landscape invites visitors, especially cyclists, hikers and those the treetops from 1 to 12 m in height. seeking recreation, to take extend- +49 (0)176 61011199 OBSERVATION ed tours. The real charm of the area www.kletterwald-speyer.de is a combination of the diversity Ostrich Farm – Africa in the South of landscapes running the gamut Palatinate, Rülzheim from dry dunes all the way to alder E5 marsh forests, while Celtic graves, An exotic farm where the long-legged Roman milestones, redoubts and birds can be observed in 20 giant the Westwall bunker whisper their pens as they explore the grass and own moving stories of the south- hatch their young. ern Palatinate of the past. +49 (0)7272 92976760 www.mhoufarm.de www.suedpfalz-tourismus.de/en Swimming Park Bellheim 28 29 SWIMMING POOLS Bathing lake, Rülzheim (“TRANSPARENT Springers Kaffeemanufaktur Domhof Hausbrauerei E5 Coffee Shop, Speyer Brewery, Speyer & WATER +49 (0)7272 9284-0 or -34 FACTORY”) F4 F4 ADVENTURE www.mobydick.de MANUFACTURING Privately-owned coffee-roasting Craft beer brewing according to the establishment with a small-but-fine old tradition and as per monastery Tours on the Rhine, Speyer & PRODUCTION selection of top-shelf coffees hailing recipes which have been handed Swimming Park Bellheim Rhine plain F4 from the most diverse cultivation down through generations. Hotel, Rhine plain E5 Bellheimer Brewery, Bellheim areas of the world. restaurant & beer garden. Boat tours on the idyllic Old Rhine +49 (0)6232 9655429 +49 (0)6232 67440 50-Metre pool, large non-swimmer in a primeval natural habitat with E5 www.springers-kaffee.de www.domhof.de pool and area for small children unspoilt wetlands and unique flora and the 3-lane Racer Slide. All pools Brewery with beer tasting for groups Bark trip, Old Rhine and fauna. possible on request. Schramms Coffee Roasters, Speyer Soap Manufacturer, Steinweilerer heated. +49 (0)6232 142392 +49 (0)7272 775507 +49 (0)7272 7010 · www.bellheimer.de F4 E5

Region Vacation www.vg-bellheim.de Bademaxx, Speyer One of the first roasters be- Soap factory on a historic property. Region Vacation Waldschwimmbad Forest Gläserne Backstube longing to the Deutsche Röstergilde +49 (0)6349 3086 Swimming Pool, Kandel “Transparent Bakery”, Kandel “Silbersee” local recreation area, F4 (“German roasting guild”) with over www.steinweilerer- Bobenheim- E6 Lap pool and fun pool for sports E6 15 years of roasting experience. seifenmanufaktur.de swimmers, leisure bathers and well- Summer-time refreshing experience In the Hofmarkt Zapf farm market, Hand-picked coffees made from F2 ness lovers. Diving and swimming in the multifunction pool, 40-metre one can look over the shoulder of highland Arabica beans that were Sailing, surfing, bathing fun. pools, giant slides, rain grottos, slide, water rapids channel and the “team” while they knead, form, sustainably cultivated. +49 (0)6239 9390 beach volleyball, toddlers pools and jacuzzi-pool. Paddling pool, play- fill, layer and create… Large glass +49 (0)6232 601960 www.bobenheim-roxheim.de lots more. ground, beach volleyball, chess play- windows gives visitors a free view of www.schramms-kaffee.de +49 (0)6232 6251500 ing field and kiosk. Sunbathing lawn business of baking. Cockle Boat Trip on the Old Rhine, www.bademaxx.de Germersheim with adjacent stand of old trees. +49 (0)7275 9887710 +49 (0)7275 618691 www.obsthof-zapf.de “Im Binsfeld” local recreation area F5 www.vg-kandel.de An approx. 2-hour long nature expe- F4 Ottersheimer Bärenbräu, rience of a unique kind – traversing “Schlicht” local recreation Eight partially connected man-made Ottersheim the primeval landscape and learning area, Neuhofen ponds make up the largest water- E5 about the unique animal and plant F3 sport and leisure time area in Speyer. Cosy tap room, beer garden and Palat- world. Children can even take over +49 (0)6232 142392 The sports spectrum includes above inate specialities. Brewery tours with as Captain and steer the cockle boat, www.speyer.de measure the water depth or the all a beach volleyball court. SCUBA beer tasting possible on request. water temperature. diving is also permitted if partici- +49 (0)6348 7595 pants preregister and pay the fee. www.ottersheimer-baerenbraeu.de Farm shops in the South Palatinate +49 (0)7274 960301/302/303 Water Ski School Becht, Speyer www.germersheim.eu Gastronomy is on premises. +49 (0)6236 41820 F4 “Sollachsee” local recreation area, www.vg-rheinauen.de Boat journeys on the old Rhine, wave TOURIST INFORMATION Germersheim-Sondernheim riding with the jet-ski or powerboat Roman Ship “Lusoria rides at high speed all under expert F5 Rhenana”, Neupotz guidance. Water fun for young and +49 (0)7274 960301/302/303 F5 old alike! Südpfalz-Tourismus Verbands­ District administration of Südpfalz-Tourismus +49 (0)6232 71979 gemeinde Bellheim e.V. Jockgrim Verbandsgemeinde Rülzheim e.V. The Lusoria Rhenana, a faithful Quarry Pond Johanneswiesen, www.wasserskischule.de Tel. +49 (0)7272 7008103 Tel. +49 (0)7271 599180 Tel. +49 (0)7272 7002-1068 reconstruction of a Roman river Jockgrim www.suedpfalz-tourismus-vg- www.tourismus-vg-jockgrim.de or -1069 warship from Late Antiquity. The bellheim.de www.suedpfalztourismus E6 ship can seat up to 30 persons on Südpfalz Tourismus -ruelzheim.de +49 (0)7271 52865 outings on the Setzfeld waterway in Stadt Germersheim – Kandel e.V. www.tourismus-vg-jockgrim.de Neupotz. Particularly suitable for Tourist office groups and clubs. Tel. +49 (0)7275 619945 Weißenburger Tor +49 (0)7274 53300 www.suedpfalz-tourismus-kandel.de Tel. +49 (0)7274 960301/302/303 www.lusoria-rhenana.de www.germersheim.eu “Mechtersheim” local recreation area, Römerberg

F4 PICTURE CREDITS Pages 20 – 31 Idyllically situated bathing lake with Christian Fernández Gamio: p. 20 · City of Speyer, Karl Hoffmann: p. 22 · Pfalz.Touristik e.V., Haltner: p. 24 left, p. 27 upper · District ad- kiosk, volleyball field, children’s ministration of Jockgrim: p. 24 right, p. 30 left upper · City of Speyer, Klaus Landry: p. 25 middle · City of Speyer, Office for the Preservation playground. of Historical Monuments: p. 25 lower · Südpfalz Tourismus Kandel e.V.: p. 26 left upper · City of Speyer, Klaus Venus: p. 26 middle, p. 27 +49 (0)6232 6560 right lower · Technology Museum Speyer: p. 26 right · Historic Museum Speyer: p. 26 lower · Evangelical Church of the Palatinate: p. 27 www.vgrd.de left lower · SEA Life Speyer: p. 28 upper · Südpfalz Tourismus Landkreis Germersheim e.V., Paul Van Schie: p. 28 middle left · Suedp- falz-Draisinenbahn: p. 28 middle right · District administration of Bellheim: p. 28 lower · Südpfalz Tourismus Landkreis Germersheim e.V., Christian Ernst: p. 29 · Südpfalz Tourismus Landkreis Germersheim e.V., Norman P. Krauss: p. 25 upper, p. 30 middle lower · City of Roman Ship “Lusoria Rhenana” Domhof, Speyer Speyer, Nowack: p. 30 right lower · Südpfalz Tourismus Landkreis Germersheim e.V.: p. 31 30 31 Vacation Region Palatinate Forest

Rödelstein on the rock path in southwest Palatinate There are many unique features of this landscape in the heart of the Palatinate. With an area of more than 180,000 hectares, the Palatinate forest is Germany’s ... don’t miss it! largest contiguous area of woodland. Thenatural and hiking paradise has formed a Natural and hiking paradise cross-border biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest Palatinate Cultural activities Forest Palatinate together with the Northern » Romantic castle ruins, mythical in since 1992. rock formations and dreamy Shopping opportunities villages make the giant forest Tree-top walk and a ziplining park 12,000 kilometres of marked area with its open valleys to a well-

Region Vacation hiking paths, more than 1,300 kilo­ Region Vacation Tourist office metres of graded hiking trails and loved landscape for relaxation. « Tel. +49 (0)631 3652316 a unique network of more than [email protected] 100 quaint huts transform a hike www.kaiserslautern.de into an unforgettable experience. Romantic castle ruins, mythical rock formations and dreamy villages make the giant forest area with its open valleys to a well-loved landscape for relaxation. Centre for Palatinate Forest TourismDistrict administration office of Kaiserslautern-Süd Two with a host of cultural and shopping Tel. +49 (0)631 2016135 opportunities offer a change of pace from country life: [email protected] The city and football stronghold of Kaisers­ www.zentrum-pfaelzerwald.de lautern with the largest exhibition in Europe at the garden park and outstanding cultural showcases such as the Pfalztheater and the Museum Pfalzgalerie. Not to mention Pirmasens, once the centre of shoe City Marketing & Tourism

Barrierefreiheit production and today still a top address for attractively City of Pirmasens geprüft priced shoes with its neighbouring towns of Tel. +49 (0)6331 2394321 and . [email protected] www.pirmasens.de Information on the interaction of people and the environment can be found in the Haus der Nachhal­ tigkeit" (house of sustainability) in and the Biosphere house in Fischbach. Spectacular nature experiences are also offered at the “Baumwipfelpfad” Südwestpfalz Touristik e.V. Tel. +49 (0)6331 809126 (Treetop Path) in Fischbach and the Zipline Park in [email protected] Elmstein-Iggelbach. This is where visitors can walk at www.suedwestpfalz-touristik.de the height of the treetops – or make an exit that you will not make everyday using a giant slide! Breaktime on the “Sagenhaften Waldpfad” (fabulous forest path) i www.pfalz.de/en by Bruchmühlbach-Miesau

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Autobahn / motorway junctions Junction with B9 6 Car ferry Railway line 37 Bajasseum (Circus museum), German Shoe Museum, MUSEUMS & Enkenbach- Hauenstein OPEN-AIR D2/D3 C5 EXPOSITIONS Alsenborn as a community with Information on the history of shoe a rich circus tradition gives some production in the south-west Palat- insights into the world of the circus inate from the start of industrializa- Vacuum Cleaner Museum, in this museum. The “Smallest circus tion to the present time. Integrated Bruchmühlbach-Miesau in the world” from Herbert Guth is in the Palatinate Sports Museum. A3 on display. +49 (0)6392 9233340 +49 (0)6303 913-168 www.museum-hauenstein.de Palatinate Forest Palatinate In addition to vacuum cleaners Forest Palatinate www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de spanning many years, there are also Museum of Local History, interesting accessories for painting “Die Werkstatt” Workshop Berry Wine Museum, cars, spraying perfume and adding Gallery, oxygen when doing the washing. C4 +49 (0)178 6681244 C5 Craftsmen workrooms, such as those and +49 (0)152 09464241 Exhibits concentrating on handi- used by makers of wooden shoes, www.staubsauger-museum.de Region Vacation craft-related fields of work. roof shinglers, stonemasons and Region Vacation +49 (0)6392 842424 weavers as well as furniture, Alte Wagnerei, Clausen www.galeriediewerkstatt.de clothing, crockery and equipment B4/C4 used in traditional farming. Guided Beerewei(n)museum, Eulenbis tours by arrangement. Museum for craftmanship. Registra- +49 (0)6333 64441 tion and guided tour by arrangement. B2 or +49 (0)6333 65338 +49 (0)6333 2269 · www.rodalben.de The museum has exhibits and infor- www.heltersberg.de mation on Beerenwei(n) (pear wine), Kreisgalerie, a traditional drink in the Western Historama at Hornbach Monastery German Shoe Museum, Hauenstein Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern C5 Palatinate. +49 (0)6374 1310 A5 Permanent exhibition of paintings, or +49 (0)6374 994213 Multimedia museum taking visitors art and book collections as well as www.eulenbis.de on a time trip through over 1,000 mpk – Museum Pfalzgalerie Museum of Local History Perfume Museum, alternating exhibitions. years of history concerning the Kaiserslautern “Wie’s frieher wor”, -Baalborn +49 (0)6391 3222 Paper Maker and Museum of development and significance of the www.lksuedwestpfalz.de C3 B4 C2 Local History, former Benedictine abbey. The museum Pfalzgalerie Kaisers- Small museum with old agricultural Enter the world of scents. The +49 (0)6338 809153 Galerie N / Rathaus, Dahn lautern, founded in 1874 as a com- equipment, implements and articles museum transports visitors to the D3 www.kloster-hornbach.de C5 Museum tours, traditional mercial museum, today serves for of daily use – all presented in a 17th and 18th century and gives hand-crafting of papers. Possibility care and presentation of paintings lovingly furnished former farmhouse them insights into the beguiling art Alternating exhibitions of renowned Old Parsonage, Hornbach for viewing the operation in the and sculptures of the 19th to 21st parlour. Potato farm, farm shop and of perfume making. artists. Frankenecker Works of the Papier­ A5 century. A comprehensive graphic schnapps distillery. Guided tours by +49 (0)6303 870160 www.kunst-wasgau.de fabrik Glatz GmbH Exhibition of the life and the work of collection. arrangement. www.parfuemmuseum.de +49 (0)6325 2564 the botanist Hieronymus Bock. +49 (0)631 3647201 · www.mpk.de +49 (0)6372 7934 or 5090030 Alte Samenklenge, Museum of www.museum.frankeneck.de +49 (0)6338 994971 Signal Tower Museum, Woodland and History, City Museum Theodor-Zink Sickingen Museum in the Elmstein Wadgasserhof, Kaiserslautern Zehntenscheune, C2 The signal tower was put into opera- D3/D4 C3 B3 tion in 1911. Since the conversion to The visitors can see the start and end Both museums in the old town This museum focusses on the polit- electronic safety technology in 2005, product in the stages of extracting display the folklore and handicraft ical and intellectual development of it is no longer essential for railway precious seeds for sustainable pres- exhibits and document the most the last knight , traffic. Model of the Cistercian mon- ervation of the forest. There are also important events and eras from the his history and his impact on poster- astery (12th century) and the Old exhibits and history from all fields earliest traces of settlements to the ity. Viewing tours by arrangement. City area (17th century). of forestry. present day. +49 (0)6371 1300012 +49 (0)6301 607800 +49 (0)6328 902919 +49 (0)631 3652327 www.landstuhl.de www.otterbach-.de www.alte-samenklenge.de www.kaiserslautern.de West Palatinate Musicians Town Museum, Otterberg Weaponssmith, Elmstein Edith Stein Exhibition, Museum, Lambrecht (Pfalz) C2 D3/D4 B3 Model of the old city and Cistercian The Elmstein weapons smithery is D3 The museum houses impressive abbey from the 17th century. Pres- the only still operational blacksmith Edith Stein memorial site in the Toni documents on the west Palatinate entation of the old handcraft occu- in the Palatinate powered by water. Schröer house, viewing and tour musicians in the 19th and 20th pations and significant personalities There are various open “smithy days” by Father Toni Braun after advance century. of the city, such as Johann Roos and throughout the year. notice. +49 (0)6374 2613 Isidor Straus. +49 (0)621 574897 +49 (0)6325 989456 or +49 (0)170 4055898 +49 (0)6301 607800 www.wappenschmiede-elmstein.de www.lambrecht-pfalz.de www.otterbach-otterberg.de Old sawblades, Elmstein 38 39 poor, originator of hygiene as a sci- ence and the public health system. +49 (0)6331 17101 www.johann-peter-frank.de

Museum of Local History, B4 The museum commemorates the old craftsman trades of the village (shoe- Palatinate Forest Palatinate Forest Palatinate makers, brickworkers, cabinetmak- ers, blacksmiths and wainwrights). Viewing after arrangement. +49 (0)6375 7195 www.rosendorf-schmitshausen.de Dynamikum Science Center, Pirmasens Westwall Museum, Pirmasens Museum of Local History,

Region Vacation Thaleischweiler-Fröschen Region Vacation Motorbike Museum Heinz Silhouette room, Pirmasens dating from 18th century. Permanent Castle Ruin Diemerstein Castle Ruin Altdahn Luthringshauser, Otterbach exhibition and special exhibitions B4 B5 displaying the history of its citizens’ Archaeological finds from the ruins C2 Documentation about the artistic daily lives and the culture of the of Gothic chapel of St. Cyriakus the Palatinate Forest. Shoemakers’ steep sandstone cliffed rocks and Since 1980, the former protestant silhouettes of the Pirmasens artist region. including the saddler workshop handwork dating from 1920-1960, belonged to the lords of Drachenfels church of the town houses the Elisabeth Emmler. +49 (0)6371 838186 and documentation about Castle history of the Heidelsburg fortifica- (1209-1344). Magnificent view over Motorbike Museum Heinz Luthrings­ +49 (0)6331 842299 www.ramstein-miesenbach.de tion, alternating art exhibitions. the hills of the Palatinate Forest. hauser, with a unique exhibition of www.pirmasens.de Steinenschloss as well as old tools and equipment. +49 (0)6333 7011 www.dahner-felsenland.de significant motor bikes in the history Docu Center Ramstein, +49 (0)6334 5485 www.heimatmuseum-wb.de of the vehicle. Shoe Museum, Pirmasens Ramstein-Miesenbach Burgenmassiv Alt-Dahn – +49 (0)6301 2367 or +49 (0)6334 441105 B5 B3 www.vgtw.de Reinhard-Blauth Museum, Grafendahn – Tanstein, Dahn www.motorradmuseum-heinz- luthringshauser.de Development of shoe fashions from Exhibition in strikingly red contain- C5 the 19th century. ers revolving around the history of Ironworks Museum, B3 The largest castle building project City Museum, Pirmasens +49 (0)6331 842299 US Americans in the Rhineland-Pa- C3 The oldest of local history museums in the Palatinate (11th century) was www.pirmasens.de latinate: Information about the his- The museum demonstrates the his- in Kaiserslautern, this museum was built on free-standing, steep rocks B5 torical development and significance tory of ironmongery from the 30 Year founded in 1964 by local history with chambers, steps and passages A look at the time of landgrave Museum Gerstfeld- of the US Club and the Ramstein War to the end of the 19th century. researcher Reinhard Blauth. It brings hewn into the rocks. Today with Ludwig IX of -, the höhe, Pirmasens-Niedersimten airshow disaster in 1988. Special During tours, the craftsmanship of to life the history of the region from castle museum. founder of the city of Pirmasens. exhibitions. B5 forging is demonstrated. the Stone Age right into the 20th +49 (0)6391 3650 +49 (0)6331 842299 +49 (0)6371 838005 The largest section of the Siegfried +49 (0)6306 341 · www.trippstadt.de century. or +49 (0)6391 9935-43 www.pirmasens.de www.dc-ramstein.de line still left. A tour of the 1,000 me- +49 (0)6374 1697 www.burgen-rlp.de tre long underground tunnel system Museum of Local History, or +49 (0)170 2066093 Dynamikum Science Center, Dr. Johann-Peter-Frank-Museum, gives an insight into the history of Waldfischbach-Burgalben www.heimatmuseum-weilerbach.de Castle Ruin Diemerstein Pirmasens Rodalben the defence installations. B4 D3 B5 +49 (0)6331 46147 B4 Original construction of an old Built at the start of the 13th century, Participate, research, experience, or +49 (0)6331 842299 Dr. Johann Peter Frank was a pharmacy/chemist, exhibition of CASTLES & not open to the public. Below the be astounded: Here at the Science www.westwall-museum.de renowned doctor, benefactor to the rural working implements used in castle ruins, the Villa Denis, built in Center, everything relates to the topic CHÂTEAUS 1845 –1849 was styled by Bavarian of movement. More than 160 inter- Museum Sickinger Höhe, and is now a landmarked active experiment stations make the Castle Ruins Breitenstein building. Can be viewed on a guided scientific phenomena easy to grasp. B3 tour. +49 (0)6331 23943-0 D4 +49 (0)6303 913120 or 168 www.dynamikum.de Located in the historic town hall from 1836. The collection of more Ruins from the 13th century located www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de on an overhang north of the Speyer­ Forum “Alte Post”, Pirmasens than 3,000 exhibits includes finds from the prehistoric and early histo- bach. Great hall and ring wall are Castle Ruins Elmstein B5 ry of the region as well as a selected located on a steep rocky crag. The D4 A cross-section of the genre painter collection of coins. castle was destroyed in 1470 and restored over the last few years. Built in the 12th century as palgrave Heinrich Bürkel and the dadaist +49 (0)6371 14775 castle for protection of the passage Hugo Ball can be seen on 800 m² www.kaiserslautern-sued.de +49 (0)6325 181110 www.vg-lambrecht.de through the valley. The remains of exhibition space. Both artists were the ring walls, the great hall and its born in Pirmasens. Special exhibi- Museum im Westrich, Castle Ruin Drachenfels, shield wall still remain. The castle is tion of contemporary art. Ramstein- Miesenbach privately owned. +49 (0)6331 23927-16 C5 +49 (0)6325 181110 www.pirmasens.de B3 Museum in the oldest building in the The rock castle Drachenfels (mean- www.vg-lambrecht.de ing “dragon’s rock”) is located on 2 city, a landmarked baroque building Forum “Alte Post”, Pirmasens Castle Ruin Drachenfels, Busenberg 40 41 Castle Ruins Erfenstein Emperor’s Palace and subterranean Castle Ruins Lichtenstein, D4 tunnels, Kaiserslautern D3 Built in the mid 13th century by the C3 Ruins from the 11th century west of Leininger Earls and destroyed in With the light and sound installa- Neidenfels on a slope of the “Licht- 1470. Erfenstein, a rectangular keep tion in the underground passages, ensteiner Kopf”. built on a rock, is still preserved and an important part of the history of +49 (0)6325 181110 has been restored. Kaiserslautern has been impressively www.vg-lambrecht.de +49 (0)6325 181110 put in the limelight. Can be viewed www.vg-lambrecht.de on a guided tour. Castle Ruins Neidenfels +49 (0)631 3654019 Palatinate Forest Palatinate Forest Palatinate Castle Spangenberg, www.kaiserslautern.de D3 Winterkirchel, Erfweiler Erfenstein Built in the 13th century for protec- Nanstein Castle, Landstuhl tion of the forest and the road as D4 well as serving as a hunting lodge. Landmark of the valley from the B3 It is located above the old terraced vivid example of a medieval church 11th century located on a steep This landmark and emblem of Land- vineyards made from the remains of Hornbach Monastery of a mendicant order. and salient rocky ledge. Remaining stuhl on the Schlossberg mountain its walls. +49 (0)631 365 4019 www.kaiserslautern.de

Region Vacation are a significant part of the great provides a vista as far as the north- +49 (0)6325 181110 Region Vacation Castle Ruin Falkenburg and (heaven’s gate) that was built in hall, gateway in front of the main ern Palatinate mountainous country www.vg-lambrecht.de Wilgartaburg, 1948/49 and commonly called the castle and parts of the walls. Guided and can thank the last knight Franz Collegiate Church, “winter church”. tours and medieval banquets upon von Sickingen, who died here in Castle Ruin Wegelnburg, Kaiserslautern C5 www.dahner-felsenland.de arrangement. 1523, for its prominence. C6 The Falkenburg castle (12th century) C3 +49 (0)6325 9888138 +49 (0)6371 13460 stands on a 120 m long and 20 m The castle dates from the 12th/13th St. Martin Parish Church, The collegiate church is the most or +49 (0)6325 2027 www.landstuhl.de wide platform. The remnants of century and stretches along a Großbundenbach important late Gothic cathedral in www.burg-spangenberg.de the Wilgartaburg (8th century) are mountain ridge. It is built on the south-. Worth hearing: Castle Lemberg with Castle located on twin rock peaks. A4 highest location of all castles in the The with 48 bells. Castle Berwartstein, Information Centre, Lemberg +49 (0)6392 9233380 Evangelical church with Roman tow- Palatinate (572 m). Terrific panoram- +49 (0)631 3652317 www.urlaubsregion-hauenstein.de er and Gothic nave (12th century). B5 ic vista. www.kaiserslautern.de Magnificent epitaphs and frescoes C5 Built in 2000, the information +49 (0)6391 9196222 embellish the vaulted dome and The only inhabited castle buildings centre offers an overview of the most www.dahner-felsenland.de Monastery Church choir room. in the Palatinate. Built in the 12th important castles in the South-West of Lambrecht +49 (0)6332 8062102 century on a high chunk of rock with Palatinate and in bordering France. Castle Ruin Steinenschloss, CHURCHES & www.vgzwland.de D3 gun towers, 104 m deep well system With tunnels that can be Thaleischweiler-Fröschen A former monastery church from the as well as housing for the occupants walked through. 14th century, This is the jewel of the and tunnels hewn into the rock. +49 (0)6331 8720 B4 St. Katharina Chapel, The castle ruins is seated above the Maria Heimsuchung Church (“St. Hauenstein “Special Gothic” in the Palatinate with +49 (0)6398 210 www.burg-lemberg.de restored Secco paintings. Regular con- www.burgberwartstein.de convergence of the and Mary of the Visitation”), Elmstein C5 Rodalb rivers. It was erected in 1100 certs on the original Baroque organ Castle Gräfenstein, D4 Built in 1512, St. Katharina Chapel AD. The tower and foundation walls from Johann Georg Geib (1777). Castle Ruin Frankenstein is home to the presumably oldest C4 are still reserved to today. The small Catholic church originated +49 (0)6325 7889 wood sculptures in the Palatinate. D3 The landmark of the Gräfensteiner +49 (0)6334 441239 · www.vgtw.de in the year 1765 and possesses a cel- www.vg-lambrecht.de The Pietà (vesper image) dates from This Staufian castle was built in land was built by the Earl of Leinin- ebrated Hermann Schlimbach organ, which was restored in 2002. between 1360-1380. many phases in the 12th and 13th gen at the start of the 13th century. It Barock Manor, Trippstadt “Alte Kapelle” Old Chapel, +49 (0)6392 993969 century. Today, the castle is owned is the best preserved Staufen castle +49 (0)6325 181110 Landstuhl C3 www.schlimbach-orgel-elmstein.de www.hauenstein.de by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. in the Palatinate. The seven sided B3 Can be viewed on a guided tour. keep is unique. The manor was built between 1764 and 1767 by Baron Carl Joseph Franz Klosterkirche Monastery Church, Hornbach Monastery The choir of the former “Holy Andre- +49 (0)6303 913120 or 168 +49 (0)6331 234180 as” church that was probably erected www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de www.rodalben.de of Hacke. Today it is the seat of the Enkenbach A5 research institute for Forest Ecology at the end of the 14th century. This is D2/D3 Founded over 1250 years ago by and Forest Management in Rhine- where the first reformed (Protestant) Castle Hohenecken, Saint Pirminius. The goal of many land-Palatinate. An architectural monument of religious services in Germany took Kaiserslautern pilgrims, the Benedictine abbey +49 (0)6303 341 · www.trippstadt.de art-historic importance. Constructed place. C3 in 1272, it boasts an opulent main developed into one of the most +49 (0)6371 13460 portal with ornate decoration of important within the Visible from afar, this striking testi- Castle Wilenstein, Trippstadt www.landstuhl.de dioceses in , Speyer, and mony to Staufian architecture lies on amazing diversity and precision. An . the spur at the end of a ridge. From C3 elaborate mixture of Roman and Catholic Church +49 (0)6338 809153 its initial construction in the 12th A stone castle in the Karlstal valley, it Gothic art forms. St. Andreas, Landstuhl www.kloster-hornbach.de century up to its destruction in 1688, was built in the 12th century as the +49 (0)6303 913-168, -120 or -147 B3 fortified official seat for the Horn- www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de the castle has a tumultuous history In 1752/53 the church was built onto connected to it. bach Monastery. It was destroyed in St. Martin’s Church, the Thirty Years’ War. The older part Winterkirchel Chapel, Erfweiler Kaiserslautern the city fortification’s watchtower on +49 (0)631 3654019 the site of the former Chapel of Our www.kaiserslautern.de of the castle has been reconstructed C5 C3 and now serves as a school vacation Lady Maria. The church houses the Built at the beginning of the 14th centre. Nestled on a mountain ridge tomb of knight Franz von Sickingen. century, St. Martin’s is considered a Castle Gräfenstein, Merzalben www.burgwilenstein.de between Hauenstein and Erfweiler +49 (0)6371 13460 is the chapel “Maria Himmelspforte” www.landstuhl.de 42 43 Ruins of Verena Chapel, B3 Originally a late Romanesque chapel dating from the 14th century. Having withstood the Thirty Years’ War, it was last used for religious services in 1718. On the right side when entering the village. www.landstuhl.de Palatinate Forest Palatinate Forest Palatinate Celtic Chieftain’s Tomb, Rodenbach B3 In the reconstructed chieftain’s tomb on Rodenbach, one finds replicas of Cistercian Abbey Church, Otterberg Owl Head Tower, Eulenbis the burial objects excavated from the Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern grave site in 1874. Included is a gold

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Viewing www.dahner-felsenland.de Maria Rosenberg, Romanesque style. The pulpit, organ nate hill country and the Sickingen to the chapel and offer them up as tours after advance reservation. Waldfischbach-Burgalben and altar follow the “ Heights. The highest room protection for their vineyards. +49 (0)6374 6306 Vogelbach Simultaneum, Vogelbach program” for Protestant church in the Palatinate is located in the B4 +49 (0)6325 181110 protpfarramtmackenbach@ architecture. tower. Pilgrimage location and spiritual www.vg-lambrecht.de t-online.de A3 A church with a spital and an +49 (0)6374 99173100 +49 (0)6374 922-131 centre. Romanesque chapel with a pfarramt.weilerbach@ or +49 (0)6374 994213 picture of our lady of grace with the Protestant Church, Miesau Kriegergedächtniskapelle important station for pilgrims on evkirchepfalz.de www.weilerbach.de child . Pilgrimage church, sta- (memorial chapel for soldiers), the Jakobsweg (St. James Pilgrimage) tions of the cross and Lourdes grotto. 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Tourist office Tourist office District administra‑ Tourist office Trippstadt tion of Lambrecht (Pfalz) +49 (0)6306 341 +49 (0)6391 9196222 +49 (0)6325 181110 www.trippstadt.de Experience one of the most beautiful show gardens in Germany to be the perfect www.dahner-felsenland.net www.vg-lambrecht.de Tourist office District Besucherinformationszentrum Tourist office administration of Weilerbach „Flößerei und Trift“ Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl +49 (0)6374 922131 +49 (0)6325 181142 +49 (0)6371 1300012 www.weilerbach.de www.vg-lambrecht.de www.landstuhl.de Tourist office Pfälzer Mühlenland Event location Tourist office Tourist office +49 (0)6334 441239 for any of your festivities! Enkenbach-Alsenborn Otterbach-Otterberg www.pfaelzer-muehlenland.de +49 (0)6303 913-168 +49 (0)6301 607800 www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de www.otterbach-otterberg.de Infocenter Ramstein-Miesenbach Either used as a romatic location for your wedding, as beautiful and extraordinary +49 (0)6371 838186 setting for photoshoots, for your party inside the amazing „Almhütte“ or Tourist office Tourist office www.ramstein-miesenbach.de Gräfensteiner Land Pirmasens-Land for any other kind of celebration - the „Spirit of Garden“ situated in the heart of south +49 (0)6331 234180 +49 (0)6331 8720 Infocenter Window to Rhein- palatine, with its incomparable garden concept over 10.000 qm, offers a www.rodalben.de www.pirmasens-land.de land-Pfalz, Ramstein Gateway +49 (0)6371 406208 breathtaking, unique ambience for your very special moments. Tourist info centre Tourist office Pirminiusland www.ramstein-gateway.de Pfälzerwald, Hauenstein +49 (0)6332 8062102 +49 (0)6392 9233380 www.vgzwland.de Burkhard Müller Schmuck GmbH, Mauritiusstraße 40-46, 76761 Rülzheim www.urlaubsregion-hauenstein.de E-Mail: [email protected], Tel: 07272-9298-0, Mobil: 0151-58 23 23 48 E www.spirit-of-garden.de PICTURE CREDITS Pages 32 – 52 Pfalz.Touristik e.V., Dominik Ketz: p. 32, p. 35, p. 41 left, p. 44 upper left · Pia Neumann: p. 38, p. 48 upper right · Pfalz.Touristik e.V., Halt- ner: p. 39 left, p. 40 left, p. 40 right upper, p. 43 left, p. 47, p. 49 upper · Pfalz.Touristik e.V., SRG: p. 45 left lower · City of Kaiserslautern: p. 39 right middle, p. 45 upper · Forum “Alte Post”, Rüdiger Buchholz: p. 40 lower · Centre for Pfälzerwald Tourism: p. 41 middle · Südwestpfalz Touristik e.V.: p. 41 right, p. 42, p. 43 right, p. 45 lower right, p. 46 left lower, p. 50 upper right · Verbandsgemeinde Weilerbach: p. 39 upper right, p. 44 upper right · Tourist-Information Gräfensteiner Land: p. 44 lower middle · Verbandsgemeinde Lambrecht: p. 44 lower right · City of Landstuhl: p. 46 left upper · Horbacher Mühle p. 46 middle lower · Tourist Information Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben: p. 48 upper mid- dle · MountainBike Park Pfälzerwald, Christoph Riemeyer: p. 48 lower, p. 49 lower · Tourist Info Centre Pfälzerwald, Stefanie Ser: p. 50 left · Tourist Information Otterberg: p. 51 52 Vacation Region The German Wine Route

Roman Winery Weilberg near Bad Dürkheim-Ungstein Nature has been good to this stretch of land ... don’t miss it! where figs, kiwis and lemons grow and where you can be enchanted by the “savoir vivre” in pictur­ The touristic route esque villages. Whether cycling among the sea of Südliche Weinstrasse e.V. – “The German Wine Route” vines, hiking between the Palatinate forest huts and Centre for Tourism Tel. +49 (0)6341 940407 wine-growing villages, strolling through the alley­ Landau and Neustadt

German Wine German Wine Route [email protected] German Wine Route ways of the historic city centres or “wine wellness” www.suedlicheweinstrasse.de where the emphasis is on the benefits of wine in the www.german-wineroute.com health resorts of Bad Dürkheim and , Wine festivals there is no shortage of free time and recreational opportunities. Region Vacation Region Vacation

Tourist office Landau Tel. +49 (0)6341 138301 und 138302 [email protected] www.landau-tourismus.de

» There is no shortage of free time and recrea- tional opportunities. « Deutsche Weinstraße e.V. – Mittelhaardt Tel. +49 (0)6321 912333 [email protected] www.deutsche-weinstrasse.de Right in the centre of the Palatinate wine www.deutscheweinstrasse-pfalz.de country are two towns: the busy university town of Landau with its zoo and its impres­ sive Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) architecture, and Neustadt an der Weinstraße, the site of the annual selection and coronation of the , with the Hambach Tourist office Almond blossoms in castle, the “birthplace of German demo­ Neustadt an der Weinstraße the Palatinate Region cracy”. Both towns are characterized by their Tel. +49 (0)6321 926892 romantic wine-growing villages. Here, as [email protected] www.neustadt.eu The following goes for destinations of exploration elsewhere on the German Wine Route, the Group offers: tours as well as along the German Wine Route: people love to celebrate. With more than www.pfalztours.eu numerous stony witnesses bear testimony to the 200 festivals – some of them folkloric, some eventful Palatinate history, ranging from the ruins elegant – guests can get to know the country of Roman settlements to castle ruins and manor and its people. Join in the celebrations! i www.pfalz.de/en houses.

56 57 Roman Winery Weilberg, German Museum of Film and Frank-Loebsche House, Landau MUSEUMS & Bad Dürkheim-Ungstein Photo Technology (and television technology), E5 OPEN-AIR E3 Picturesque location surrounded EXPOSITIONS The largest Roman country estate E3 by wooden galleries. In the 19th discovered to date in the Palatinate. Overview of more than 100 years century, it was the residence of the +49 (0) 6322 935140 of photo, film and photographic great-grandfather of Anne Frank. Museum below Trifels, www.bad-duerkheim.com technology. Exhibition on the history of the Annweiler +49 (0)6326 6568 · www.dftm.de Landau and documentation of D5 City Museum, the Sinti and Roma in the Palatinate. Bad Dürkheim Museum for Wine Culture, Alternating exhibitions. The quaint museum is composed Deidesheim +49 (0)6341 86472 · www.landau.de of three traditional half-timbered E3

German Wine German Wine Route houses and a mill. The visitor can German Wine Route Information on the town history E3 Archive and Museum, Landau discover the history of the Trifelsland and wine-growing. Portrays the relationships between and Burg Trifels () on +49 (0)6322 935404 people and wine. E5 2 800 m of exhibition area. or +49 06322 935140 +49 (0)6326 981561 History of the city of Landau with +49 (0)6346 1682 · www.annweiler.de www.bad-duerkheim.com www.weinkultur-deidesheim.de Frank-Loebsche House, Landau historically important model of the city from 1700. 17,000 volumes of Town Museum, Bad Bergzabern Natural History Museum of Portal to the Biosphere Reserve scientific literature, Landau news-

Region Vacation D5 the Palatinate (POLLICHIA), Pfälzerwald in the Historic Bing Toy Spielzeughaus Museum Deanery Museum in the papers from 1792 onwards, 600,000 Region Vacation Bad Dürkheim Town Hall, Deidesheim photographs and much more. Local history museum in the historic & Café, St. Martin's Church, Grünstadt +49 (0)6341 134202 “Zum Engel” inn where the historical E3 E3 E2 E2 www.landau.de focus changes once a year. Valuable flora, fauna and geological Three-dimensional landscape model 1,500 exhibits of the Bing works in A collection of exhibits of church +49 (0)6343 701601 collection. Especially recommended of the biosphere reserve Pfälzerwald (1866-1932) with adjoin- history of the region. City Gallery Villa Streccius, www.bad-bergzabern.de for children and teenagers. Besides with internet terminal. Information ing museum ice cream parlour. +49 (0)6359 2201 Landau the permanent exhibitions, there are on watercourses, fauna and flora, +49 (0)6353 916557 www.gruenstadt.de Westwall Museum, alternating special exhibitions. hiking paths as well as cultural and www.spielzeugmuseum- E5 Bad Bergzabern +49 (0)6322 94130 natural beauty spots. freinsheim.de Museum of Local History Built in 1893 for the royal notary and D5 www.pfalzmuseum.de +49 (0)6326 981561 “Ältestes Haus”, Haßloch judiciary council Heinrich Streccius. www.deidesheim.de Since 1959 it has been used as a Converted to a museum after reopen- Historic Blacksmith, Stork Centre, Bornheim E3 city gallery. As of 1980 it has also ing to the public in 1998. Exhibited Museum for Wine-Growing Collection dealing with farming and been the headquarters of the “Villa is a stationary gun emplacement. E5 and Town History, E3 handicraft culture as well as domes- Streccius e.V.” art association. Complemented by the nearby - The stork museum is the information View the original equipment and tic and agricultural implements and +49 (0)6341 134101 fried Line trekking path. centre on the white stork for the state D4/E4 tools of the blacksmiths from the farmers garden. www.villa-streccius.de +49 (0)6341 3713 of Rhineland-Palatinate. It offers Local history museum with a perma- 19th/20th century. +49 (0)6324 935225 www.otterbachabschnitt.de visitor information, documentation nent exhibit on wine and the region. +49 (0)6322 92516 www.hassloch.de Strieffler House of and environmental education. Additional alternating exhibitions. www.friedelsheim.de Fine Arts, Landau Tin Toy Museum, +49 (0)6348 610757 +49 (0)6323 81514 Museum Herxheim, Herxheim Bad Bergzabern E5 www.pfalzstorch.de www.museum-edenkoben.de Open-Air Museum, Gönnheim E5 D5 Former residence and atelier of Mill Museum, Edenkoben E3 Includes the three departments: the painter Heinrich Strieffler The small museum displays the Display of a sandstone sarcophagus Stone Age, cultural history & tobacco (1872-1949) and his daughter, the history of the world in 20,000 tin E4 from around 400 AD. and Herxheim history. painter Marie Strieffler (1917-1987). figures. History and mill remnants on the +49 (0)6322 9580-801 +49 (0)7276 502477 Museum and gallery with three +49 (0)6343 939172 last mill taken out of service in www..de www.museum-herxheim.de alternating exhibitions per year. www.antiquariat-wilms.de/ Edenkoben and the Edenkoben +49 (0)6341 86204 ueber_uns.html millstream. “Old Village Mill”, Großkarlbach Museum of Local History and Karl www.strieffler-haus.de +49 (0)6323 2891 Blum Archive, www.galerie-neumuehle.de E2 The only demonstration mill in the D2 Eschbacher Eselei Vorderpfalz. Clay mining, kitchen from 1900, +49 (0)6328 926415 archive. D5 www.grosskarlbach.de +49 (0)6351 42750 A tour through the community of Es- www..com chbach of 35 lifesize artistic figures Museum of Local History of of donkeys. the Antiquities Association in the August-Becker Museum, +49 (0)6345 3531 Old Town Hall, Grünstadt Klingenmünster www.landauland.de E2 D5 The museum exhibits items of local Birthplace of August Becker, the and historical interest in Grünstadt “Father of Palatinate folklore”. With and in Leiningerland. his well-known work “Pfalz und +49 (0)6359 9297234 Pfälzer”. www.gruenstadt.de +49 (0)6349 6344 Natural History Museum of the Palatinate (POLLICHIA), Bad Dürkheim www.klingenmuenster.de Museum Herxheim 58 59 Peasants’ War House, edition”) from 1545, as well as a rare Herrenhof, Ruins of Hardenburg château Landau-Nußdorf Korean . Neustadt-Mußbach and fort, Bad Dürkheim +49 (0)6321 84772 E4 www.bibelverein.de E3 E3 Location where the Palatinate Great Formerly a winery of the order of One of the largest castle complexes Peasants’ Revolt of 1525 started. The Railway Museum, Neustadt St. John, the “Herrenhof” is today a in the Palatinate built in the 12th museum recalls the eruption and cultural centre with wine-growing century over the city district of Hard- unfolding of the Palatinate peasants’ E4 museum. enberg. Multimedia journey into the uprising and shows some exhibits. Exhibition of old locomotives, +49 (0)6321 9639990 past. Especially recommended for Memorial of the Peasants’ Revolt by railcars, signals etc. in the historic www.herrenhof-mussbach.de children. Guided tours by arrange- Albrecht Dürer. Pfalz-Bahn locomotive shed. ment. Information centre and castle +49 (0)6341 51863 +49 (0)6321 30390 Queichtal Museum, courtyard are barrier-free. www.bauernkriegshaus-nussdorf.de www.eisenbahnmuseum- Offenbach an der +49 (0)6322 935140 German Wine German Wine Route German Wine Route neustadt.de or +49 (0)6322 7530 Distillery Museum, Meckenheim E5 www.schloss-hardenburg.de Otto Dill Museum, Neustadt Located in a converted barn in the E3 centre of Offenbach, the visitor can Monastery Ruins of Limburg, Small Palatinate distillery museum E4 explore the history of the region and Bad Dürkheim with documentation of the history of The exhibition follows Otto Dills the town of Offenbach with alternat- alcohol and its distillation. artistic development from its origins ing exhibitions. E3

Region Vacation +49 (0)6326 989300 to his later works. +49 (0)6348 986134 Former Benedictine abbey. Region Vacation www.destillerie-rheinwald.de +49 (0)6321 398321 www.queichtalmuseum.de Guided tours by arrangement. www.otto-dill-museum.de +49 (0)6322 935140 Monastery Ruins of Limburg, Bad Dürkheim Museum “An der Münze”, Motorbike and Technology Muse- www.bad-duerkheim.com Memorial Site Turenne Barracks, um Leiningerland, Neustadt Museum of Local History, Waagenmuseum – The Scales Battenberg Castle, Battenberg E2 E2 St. Martin Museum, Wachenheim +49 (0)6359 2796 E4 Collection of different items on the E2 www.neuleiningen.de Memorial site for Nazi victims, only topic of technology. E4 E3 Freely accessible castle buildings. remaining former concentration +49 (0)6359 82676 The history of a village on three Weighing scales and weights Fantastic view onto the Rhine plain. Museum in the Tower, camp in the Palatinate. Viewing by or +49 (0)157 50723520 levels. Permanent exhibition with from antiquity to the present day. +49 (0)6359 961004 Neuleiningen arrangement. www.motorrad-technik-museum.de historical photographs as well as Viewing tours/guided tours only by www.hofgutbattenberg.de +49 (0)6321 9597472 (answering alternating exhibitions. agreement. E2 machine) or +49 (0)172 7474419 Local History and Brushmakers +49 (0)6323 2854 +49 (0)6322 63675 Sturmfedersches Schloss, Local history museum with fasci- www.gedenkstaette-neustadt.de Museum, Ramberg www.sankt-martin-pfalz.de www.wachenheim.de nating facts on the castle and village history and the of the region. City Museum Villa Böhm, Neustadt D4 Museum of Local History, E2 +49 (0)6359 2796 The museum highlights information As well as the Koeth-Wandscheid www.neuleiningen.de E4 about brushmaking handwork and CASTLES, Castle with an attractive park laid History of the city of Neustadt from the importance and development of E4 down according to the English style Bible Museum, Neustadt 13th-20th century by means of this craft since 1750 until today. Also Historic agricultural equipment CHÂTEAUS & CITY of garden architect Friedrich Ludwig touchscreen exploration and theme a special exhibition of the “Ramberg and accessories associated with MUSEUMS Sckell. E4 and “personality islands”. castle world”. wine-growing, exhibits on local +49 (0)6359 8001820 Valuable editions of the Bible, such +49 (0)6321 855540 +49 (0)176 67732802 history as well as special bottles and www.dirmstein.de as the “Neustadt Bibel” from 1594 www.stadtmuseum-neustadt.de www.buerstenbindermuseum.de glass from Vennigen , spirits, Castle, and “Luthers letzte Hand” (“last hand liqueurs and aperitif vinegars. Altleiningen +49 (0)6323 1520 E2 www.neu.venningen.de Castle buildings with swimming Wine cellar museum in Sektkellerei pool; today it houses a youth hostel. Schloss Wachenheim, Wachenheim Ideal for conferences and seminars. +49 (0)6356 1580 E3 www.DieJugendherbergen.de Historic exhibitions examine the history of making sparkling wines. Kaiserburg Trifels Viewing only available in conjunc- (“Imperial Castle”), Villa Rustica, Wachenheim tion with guided tours. Annweiler +49 (0)6322 94270 D5 or +49 (0)6322 9427380 www.schloss-wachenheim.de Medieval castle particularly famous as the location where King Richard Villa Rustica, Wachenheim the Lionheart was kept prisoner. The treasury with the imperial regalia E3 (reproductions) is worth a visit. Excavated Roman country manor. +49 (0)6346 8470 Tours available on request www.burgen-rlp.de +49 (0)6322 9580-801 Kaiserburg Trifels (“Imperial Castle”), Battenberg Castle BildunterschriftCuckoo Railway “Kuckucksbähnel”, Mustertext Neustadt www.wachenheim.de Annweiler 60 61 Castle Neuscharfeneck, Dernbach CHURCHES & Catholic Church St. Ulrich, D4 Deidesheim It is located 280 m above the village CHAPELS E3 of Dernbach and has extensive Constructed between 1440 and grounds. Burnt during the Peasants’ Martinskirche, 1480, the church is the single largest Revolt, it was restored in 1530 but Bad Bergzabern church in the Palatinate and dates finally destroyed during the 30 Year from the middle of the 15th century. War. D5 Among the items particularly worthy +49 (0)6346 2200 Baptistry of the sainted Edith Stein. of seeing are the late-Gothic figures www.trifelsland.de Built in 1877 – 1879 in the neo-Goth- and paintings on glass in the build- St. Anna Chapel, ic style and renovated in 1955/96. ing’s interior. Château Villa Ludwigshöhe, www.bad-bergzabern.de www.deidesheim.de German Wine German Wine Route German Wine Route Edenkoben Bergkirche Bad Bergzabern E4 Cistercian Church, Eußerthal Built between 1846 -1852 as a classic D5 D4 villa in the “Pompeian style” for Built by the Lutherans 1720 –1730 Consecrated in 1262, it was de- Ludwig I of . On the 1st floor in the Baroque style. stroyed and plundered many times. there is a permanent exhibition of The interior is worthwhile seeing. The choir, the 1st yoke of the nave Wood boarded ceilings, pews and

Region Vacation the works of Max Slevogt. Additional and transept are still intact. Guided Region Vacation alternating exhibitions. Alffermann organ. tours by arrangement. +49 (0)6323 93016 Hambacher Schloss (Hambach Castle), Neustadt-Hambach Bergkirche, Bad Bergzabern www.bad-bergzabern.de/ +49 (0)6346 2200 www.schloss-villa-ludwigshoehe.de stadtportrait/stadtrundgang.html www.trifelsland.de

Edesheim Castle Medieval City Wall, Freinsheim Hambacher Schloss (Hambach Castle Lindelbrunn, St. Anna Chapel, Nicholas Chapel, Klingenmünster Castle), Neustadt-Hambach Burrweiler E4 E2 D5 A moated stately home presumed The 1.3 km long medieval circular E4 C5 D4 Commerorially landmarked and originating in 756 when it was first walls, which surround the old town Build in the 11th century. Renowned Foundations laid at the end of the Built in 1716 by the Leyensche UNESCO protected jewel of Staufer mentioned in a document. Today it’s with quite a number of towers, for the “”, the 12th century as an imperial castle or senior civil servant Döring on the old sacral architecture that invites one a hotel and idyllic backdrop for the are some of the most spectacular birthplace of democracy in Germany “Reichsburg” and built high upon a foundation of a chapel. Today, pil- into the centre of a park-like land- castle festival in . and complete fortifications in the (1832), permanent exhibition and rocky summit. After changing own- grims still come to the Anna chapel scape for the senses. +49 (0)6323 94240 Palatinate. a spectacular view. Restaurant with ers several times, it finally became at in their thousands for repentance www.klingenmuenster.org/ www.schloss-edesheim.de +49 (0)6353 989294 viewing terrace. the end of the 14th Century a “Gan- and penitential processions on the die-nikolauskapelle/ or +49 (0)6322 667838 +49 (0)6321 926290 erbenburg”, that is, a castle occupied Teufelsberg. Madenburg Castle, Eschbach www.freinsheim.de www.hambacher-schloss.de and managed by several families/ +49 (0)6345 8734 Mariä-Schmerzen Chapel, lines simultaneously. Destroyed www.burrweiler.de -Alsterweiler D5 Castle Tower Friedelsheim Wolfsburg Castle, during the Peasants’ War in 1525. E4 First mentioned in a document E3 Neustadt/Weinstrasse www.bad-bergzaberner-land.de Spital Chapel, in 1176. It was intended to guard Deidesheim The “Maikammerer Altar” is well the exit of the Kaiserbachtal and Castle moat and the remains of the E4 Medieval City Wall with Thieves worth seeing. It is one of the few surrounding countryside. 180 m long previous castle from 1462. Excellent First mentioned in 1255, it protected Tower, Wachenheim E3 remaining examples of Gothic panel with architecture examples from 3-castle view to the edge of the the route through the valley from Late-Gothic style chapel belonging to painting in the Palatinate. Completed different epochs. Haardt. Kaiserslautern to Neustadt and E3 the Deidesheim public , built about 1445, it is a valuable testimo- +49 (0)6345 7110 +49 (0)6322 9580801 Neustadt city. The Thieves Tower was built with the in the 2nd half of the 15th century. nial of church art. www.madenburg-pfalz.de www.wachenheim.de +49 (0)6321 926892 city wall after 1341. A walk around www.deidesheim.de +49 (0)6321 952768 or www.landauland.de www.neustadt.eu the city walls extends for more www.maikammer-erlebnisland.de Castle Landeck, Klingenmünster than 1.3 km. Guided tours can be Castle Ramburg, Ramberg arranged. D5 +49 (0)6322 9580-801 The castle is the youngest of three D4 www.wachenheim.de castles surrounding Klingenmünster. The Ramburg castle ruins are located They were intended to protect the on the ridge of the timbered Hühner- Wachtenburg Castle, Wachenheim Benedictine abbey of the town. Typ- berg mountain, 436 metres above ical Staufer is the rusticated ashlar mean and 200 metres over E3 masonry of the 12th century. Ramberg. 11th/12th century castle tavern and +49 (0)6349 8744 +49 (0)6346 2200 castled museum. The castle tavern is www.burglandeck-pfalz.de www.trifelsland.de accessible for mobility-limited visi- tors. From the castle tower, one has a Neuleiningen Castle, Neuleiningen Castle Ruin Meistersel, Ramberg panoramic view over the Palatinate Forest and wine country. Permanent E2 D4 theatre piece “Wachenheim im Castle ruins with a magnificent view Meistersel castle ruin is one of the Sturm der Zeit”. of the Rhine plain. oldest castles in the Palatinate, as- +49 (0)6322 9480801 (tours) +49 (0)6359 8001820 sumed to have been erected in Salic +49 (0)6322 64656 (castle tavern) Wachtenburg Castle, Wachenheim Mariä-Schmerzen Chapel, Ruins of Castle Neuscharfeneck, www.neuleiningen.de times in the 11th century. www.wachtenburg.de Maikammer-Alsterweiler Dernbach +49 (0)6346 2200 · www.trifelsland.de 62 63 Collegiate Church (Stiftskirche), Haus der Deutschen Weinstrasse Reptile Terrarium and ing companions that will follow you Neustadt MONUMENTS & (House of the German Wine Route), ADVENTURE Desert Zoo, Landau without any problems. “Wanderings” E4 PLACES OF INTER- Bockenheim PARKS, ZOOS E5 are possible at any time of the year E2 and are suitable for all age groups. With valuable frescos in the interior. EST & ANIMAL Germany’s largest reptile zoo. See +49 (0)6346 901116 May-Oct., every Friday a church tour Counterpart to the German Wine more than 1,000 exotic reptiles on www.pfalz-lamas.de and every Saturday a tour of the Gateway in Schweigen and the north- OBSERVATION 3,800 m2 . Feeding shows, animal Dürkheim Giant Barrel, tower; market square concerts. ern startpoint of the German Wine demonstrations, changing shows Kurpfalz Park (wildlife and Bad Dürkheim +49 (0)6321 926892 Route. The building straddles the Holiday Park, and events in the large desert hall. adventure park), Wachenheim www.neustadt.eu E3 Wine Route and has a restaurant. Haßloch +49 (0)6341 51000 +49 (0)6359 9378920 www.reptilium.de E3 The world’s largest barrel with a Chapel of Our Lady Maria, www.leiningerland.com E4 Red deer and wild boars, wolf enclo- capacity of 1.7 million litres is the Animal and Nature Park of the sures and demonstrations with birds German Wine German Wine Route site of a pub serving wine and food. Experience “Action, fun and fasci- German Wine Route Monument for Peace, Edenkoben 2 Southern Wine Route, near Silz of prey in the midst of wild unspoilt Guided tours by arrangement. nation” on more than 400,000 m . E4 forests and mountainous landscape +49 (0)6322 935140 (guided tours) Exciting and funny shows with inter- Built in 1765-1769 and dedicated to E4 D5 of the Palatinate Forest. Roller or (0)6322 2143 national artists and unique rides in “Our Lady of Sorrows”. Ceiling paint- Erected in 1899 on the Werderberg Without a fence separating fallow bobsleigh, slide paradise, Kurpfalz www.duerkheimer-fass.de the middle of a magnificent park are ings and rococo ornamentations mountain near Edenkoben to waiting for you. and red deer across the entire pre- coaster, adventure playground, and from Georg Gschwendtner. In 1970, commemorate the victory in the serve. 4,000 animals of 15 different lots more. Saltworks graduation building, +49 (0)6324 59930 the organ that had been designed by Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. species can be observed on an area +49 (0)6325 959010 Bad Dürkheim www.holidaypark.de Region Vacation Johann Philipp Seuffert for the par- +49 (0)6323 959222 (guided tours) of 100 hectares. Petting zoo for www.kurpfalz-park.de Region Vacation ish church was transplanted here. E3 www.urlaubsregion-edenkoben.de Bird Park, children. +49 (0)6321 5079 +49 (0)6346 5588 At 333 metres long, it is one of the Haßloch www.kirrweiler.de Art Nouveau Festival Hall, Landau www.wildpark-silz.de longest outdoor inhalatorium in E4 Germany and it provides the “sea OUTING TRAINS St. Georg's Simultaneum, E5 Lama Wandering, breeze” in the spa gardens. 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