Devil's Table (Hinterweidenthal)

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

The Devil's Table[1][2] (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.

References

  1. ↑ Palatinate Forest — Whine, Landscapes, Fresh Air at www.mygermancity.com. Retrieved 22 Oct 2013
  2. ↑ devilish good at www.hauenstein-pfalz.de. Retrieved 22 Oct 2013.

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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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