Hunsrück

Land: Rhineland-Palatinate

Situation and characteristics

The Hunsrück, the most southerly part of the Rhenish Uplands on the left bank of the Rhine, facing the Taunus on the right bank, lies between the Rhine, the Mosel, the lower Saar and the Nahe.

Landscape

The Hunsrück is an upland region between 400 m/1,300ft and 500 m/1,650ft high out of which rises a long ridge of quartzite hills reaching their highest point in the Erbeskopf (816 m/2,677ft), the highest peak in the left-bank Rhenish Uplands. While the gently rolling plateau has lost much of its forest cover and is dotted with little towns and villages, the hills are covered with one of the largest areas of forest in Germany (mainly conifers) - the