Johanniskreuz

Johanniskreuz
Ortsteil of Trippstadt
The B 48 near Johanniskreuz
Johanniskreuz
Coordinates: 49°20′13″N 7°49′32″E / 49.336916°N 7.82547°E / 49.336916; 7.82547Coordinates: 49°20′13″N 7°49′32″E / 49.336916°N 7.82547°E / 49.336916; 7.82547
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kaiserslautern
Municipality	Trippstadt
Elevation	470 m (1,540 ft)
Population (Apr 2006)
• Total	14
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67705
Dialling codes	06306

Johanniskreuz is a tiny hamlet in the middle of the Palatine Forest in Germany and belongs to the municipality of Trippstadt in the district of Kaiserslautern in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Johanniskreuz lies in a saddle at about 470 metres (1,540 ft), north of the midpoint of the central massif of the Palatine Forest, the Frankenweide, whose surrounding peaks are only a little higher. The Frankenweide, across which the Palatine Watershed runs, is bounded to the west, north and east in the area of Johanniskreuz by the valleys of streams that rise near the hamlet. Immediately west of Johanniskreuz is the source of the Moosalb, a tributary of the Schwarzbach, which itself rises one kilometre southwest of Johanniskreuz. The waters of these streams initially flow westwards through the Blies and Saar rivers into the River Moselle and then on to the Rhine. A little to the east of Johanniskreuz is the source of another Schwarzbach, this time the left-hand headstream of the Speyerbach; which flows eastwards, directly to the Rhine.

The municipal centre of Trippstadt is about 4.5 kilometres away as the crow flies. The municipal boundary between Trippstadt and Elmstein, as well as the county boundary between Kaiserslautern and Bad Dürkheim, runs immediately east of the hamlet.

The annual precipitation in Johanniskreuz is 1,005 mm and thus lies in the upper quadrant of values within Germany. The driest month is September; the most precipitation falls in December, i.e. 1.6-times as much as in September.