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The term 'Mundat Forest' refers to two forests that overlie the modern border between Germany and France near Wissembourg, Alsace. The ''Upper Mundat Forest'' is a small part of the mountainous Palatinate Forest. The smaller ''Lower Mundat Forest'' forms a fraction of the Bienwald in the Upper Rhine valley. In the Middle Ages the forests were part of the Wissembourg Mundat, the privileged possessions of the abbey of Weissenburg (now Wissembourg), whose abbot was a territorial magnate, a Prince-abbot of the Holy Roman Empire. The unusual term, ''Mundat'', refers to the immunity (''emunitas''〔Jacques Baquol and Paul Ristelhuber, ''L'Alsace ancienne et moderne, ou Dictionnaire topographique, historique et statistique du Haut et du Bas-Rhin'' (1865), ''s.v.'' "Wissembourg"; Béatrice Weis, "Répartition des noms de personnes en Alsace au XIIe siècle" in Jean-Claude Boulanger, ed., ''Actes du XVIe Congrès international des sciences onomastiques'' 1990:577-584, p. 578: "...Schwartzenthann dans le Haute-Alsace, dans le Mundat (< immunitas), c'est-à-dire dans le temporel de l'évêque de Strasbourg...".〕) granted by the royal conveyor of property,〔Baquol and Paul Ristelhuber suggested Dagobert III.〕 which rendered the abbey immune from obligations of service for the grant of vast privileged domains situated within the diocese of Speyer.〔Baquol and Paul Ristelhuber.〕 ==Geography== The Upper Mundat Forest is an area of roughly that stretches north and west from the Alsatian town Wissembourg. Its highest point, at , is the Hohe Derst near the hamlet of ''Reisdorf''. The area includes the remains of Guttenberg Castle, c. 1150. It is part of the cross-border UNESCO biosphere reserve ''Pfälzerwald–Vosges du Nord''. The Lower Mundat Forest is an area of roughly , east of Wissembourg in the plain formed by the Rhine rift. Geographically it is part of the Bienwald. Its highest elevation is . The Upper and Lower Mundat Forests together make up the still-forested part of the ''Mundat'', the former possessions of the 7th–16th century monastery and principality at Wissembourg. To distinguish it from the similar but unrelated Mundat at Rouffach further south, it is also known as the Wissembourg Mundat or, confusingly, the ''Lower Mundat'' – the Rouffach Mundat being the ''Upper Mundat''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mundat Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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