Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest Explained

The Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest (German: Oberpfälzisch-Bayerische Wald), (no. D63 or 40) is a natural region in Germany in the northeast of Bavaria. It mainly comprises the low mountain ranges of the Bavarian Forest and Upper Palatine Forest which are up to 1456 m high and border on the Bohemian Massif immediately inside the Czech Republic's southwestern border with Germany.

Division into geographical units

40 (=D63) Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest
- 400 Upper Palatine Forest - East
- 401 Upper Palatine Forest - West
  - - 402 Cham-Furth Depression 403 Bavarian Forest - North
    - 404 Regen Depression 405 Bavarian Forest - South
- 406 Falkensteiner Vorwald
  - - - 407 Lallinger Winkel 408 Passau Abteiland and Neuburg Forest 409 Wegscheid Plateau

Neighbouring main unit groups are:

39 (= D48) Thuringian-Franconian Highlands
08 (= D61) Franconian Jura
07 (= D62) Upper Palatine-Upper Main Hills
06 Lower Bavarian Hills (part of D65)

Literature

Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1953-1962 (Teil 1, enthält Lieferung 1-5), ISBN B0000BJ19E
Meynen, Emil (ed.) Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen 1959-1962 (Teil 2, enthält Lieferung 6-9), ISBN B0000BJ19F

External links

BfN natural region fact files:
- Main highland backbone
- Foothills and lowlands