Stumpfwald

The Stumpfwald is part of the northern Palatine Forest and is located in the south of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It covers an area of about 150 km², most of which is part of North Palatinate and runs from west to east on the territories of Enkenbach-Alsenborn (county of Kaiserslautern) and Ramsen (county of Donnersbergkreis). It has given its name to the Stumpfwaldgericht, an old thingstead, and the heritage line of the Stumpfwald Railway.

The hills and woods of the Stumpfwald, bisected by valleys in all directions, have an average height of just under 400 m above sea level (NHN). The stream with the greatest volumetric flow in the Stumpfwald is the upper Eisbach and its headstream, the Bockbach.

Geologically, the Stumpfwald - like most of the Palatine uplands - is predominantly made of bunter sandstone, which was formed from wind-blown desert sand about 250 million years ago (during the Permian / Triassic transition) in what was then the Germanic Basin.Together with the neighbouring Otterberg Forest to the west (on the far side of Alsenz), the region is also called the Lower Palatinate Forest by many geoscientists. In the north it descends to the valley of the Pfrimm, which flows past Worms into the River Rhine, in the east it borders on the distinctive Leininger Sporn (516 m) and, in the south, on the Diemerstein Forest and the upper reaches of the Isenach.

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