Devil's Table (Hinterweidenthal)

The Devil's Table of Hinterweidenthal in summer ....
... and in winter

The Devil's Table (German: Teufelstisch) in Hinterweidenthal is a 14 metre high mushroom rock in the German part of the Wasgau region, the southern Palatine Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate). Thanks to its location in the territory of the village of Kaltenbach - formerly part of Wilgartswiesen – it is often called the Kaltenbach Devil's Table (Kaltenbacher Teufelstisch), especially in old literary sources. It is larger and better known than the Devil's Table of Salzwoog, which is only 5 kilometres away to the southwest.

The Hinterweidenthal Devil's Table is one of the landscape symbols of the Palatinate and is also the subject of a local legend. In 1947 the rock was portrayed on a Rhineland-Palatinate postage stamp.

Geography

The Devil's Table stands a few hundred metres south of the B 10 road and west of Hinterweidenthal-Kaltenbach on a 312-metre-high[1] ridge, which runs for over two kilometres from Etschberg in the southwest to the 324-metre-high Handschuh-Kopf in the northeast. The rock towers prominently over the surrounding woods. At night it is lit from the northern side, so that it can be seen from the B 10.

At the foot of the hill on which the Devil's Table stands, is a car park, an inn and the Devil's Table Adventure Park (Erlebnispark Teufelstisch).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Wanderportal Pfalz. "Rundwanderung 15: Über den Etschberg zum Teufelstisch". Retrieved 2012-02-23.
  2. ↑ "Neuer Erlebnispark unter dem Teufelstisch" (in German), Die Rheinpfalz (Ludwigshafen,), 2009-10-08
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Coordinates: 49°11′41.65″N 7°44′37.54″E / 49.1949028°N 7.7437611°E / 49.1949028; 7.7437611


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