|
The Palatinate ((ドイツ語:die Pfalz), Pfälzer dialect: ''Palz''), historically also Rhenish Palatinate ((ドイツ語:Rheinpfalz)), is a region in Southwestern Germany. It occupies more than a quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (''Rheinland-Pfalz''). Historically in union with Bavaria, the Palatinate covers an area of with about 1.4 million inhabitants. Its demonym is Palatine. ==Geography== In the west, the Palatinate borders on Saarland, historically also comprising the state's Saarpfalz District. In the northwest, the Hunsrück mountain range forms the border with the Rhineland region. The eastern border with Hesse and the Baden region runs along the Upper Rhine River, while the left bank with Mainz and Worms as well as the Selz basin around Alzey belong to the Rhenish Hesse region. In the south, the German-French border separates the Palatinate from Alsace. One third of the region is covered by the Palatinate Forest (''Pfälzerwald''), including the Palatinate Forest Nature Park popular with hikers. It is Germany's largest contiguous forestal area with about and part of the Franco-German Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve. The western and northern part of the Palatinate is densely forested and mountainous. Its highest mountain is the Donnersberg with a height of , situated in the North Palatine Uplands near Kirchheimbolanden. Most of the major Palatinate towns (Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Landau, Frankenthal, Neustadt) lie in the lower eastern part of the Upper Rhine Plain down to the Rhine River. Here the German Wine Route (''Deutsche Weinstrasse'') passes through the renowned Palatinate wine region.The Palatinate is one of the greatest wine producer regions in Germany and in the last two decades it became well known for a large number of prizewinning white and red wines of highest quality produced by a number of young, however fully-fledged, winemakers. Major rivers include the Upper Rhine tributaries Lauter, Queich and Speyerbach, as well as Schwarzbach and Glan in the west. 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「Palatinate (region)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|