North Palatine Uplands
The North Palatine Uplands, sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands, is a low mountain range and landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palatinate region. It is part of the Saar-Nahe Uplands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 402 metres
- Description: mountains in Germany
- Also known as: “Nordpfalzer Bergland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Falkenstein Castle and St. Sebastian.
Falkenstein Castle
Castle
Photo: Vaticarsten, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Falkenstein Castle is a ruined hill castle dating to the Middle Ages. It is situated above the eponymous village of Falkenstein on the Donnersberg, the highest point in the Palatinate region, which rises within the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Hohenfels Castle
Castle
Photo: Holger Labus, Public domain.
Hohenfels Castle is a ruined hill castle at a height of 545 m above sea level, in the Beutelfels Nature Reserve north of the village of Imsbach in the county of Donnersbergkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Falkenstein and Ruppertsecken.
Falkenstein
Village
Photo: Vaticarsten, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Falkenstein is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The castle was the seat of the Counts of Falkenstein.
Ruppertsecken
Village
Photo: Mosbach&frey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruppertsecken is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With an altitude of 498.5 m above NHN it is the highest independent village in the Palatinate.
Katzenbach
Village
Photo: Mosbach&frey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Katzenbach is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
North Palatine Uplands
- Category: landform
- Location: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.621° or 49° 37′ 16″ northLongitude
7.85008° or 7° 51′ 0″ eastElevation
402 metres (1,319 feet)Open location code
8FX9JVC2+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 11225463504OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“North Palatine Uplands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nordpfälzer Bergland”
- Chinese: “北普法尔茨山地”
- Dutch: “North Palatine Uplands”
- Esperanto: “Nordpalatinata montolando”
- Esperanto: “Nordpfälzer Bergland”
- German: “Nordpfälzer Bergland”
- German: “Pfälzer Bergland”
- Ladin: “North Palatine Uplands”
- Macedonian: “Севернофалечко Средногорје”
- Romanian: “Munţii Palatini de Nord”
- Romanian: “Munții Palatini de Nord”
- Romanian: “Nordpfälzer Bergland”
- Slovak: “Falcká vrchovina”
- Venetian: “North Palatine Uplands”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hintersteinerhof and Lindenhof.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Boulodrome and Schelmenkopf.
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