Devil's Table (Hinterweidenthal)

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

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", Die Rheinpfalz (in German), Ludwigshafen, 2009-10-08


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