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German Wine Route |
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German Wine Route |
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The German Wine Route - or German Wine Road - (Deutsche Weinstrasse) stretches through the middle of the Palatinate (Pfalz, former Rheinpfalz), the biggest coherent wine growing area in Germany. It starts at the German Wine Gate in Schweigen-Rechtenbach on the french border and ends after 85 km at the House of the German Wine Route in Bockenheim. The German Wine Route is the oldest Wine Road worldwide and was opened in 1935.

Biosphere Reserve Palatinate Forest - Vosges in green
German Wine Route ruby colored
The hilly Palatinate that is traversed by the German Wine Route is often described a mediterranean landscape due to growing figs, kiwis or oleander. The wine road is protected from prevailing winds and rain by the Palatinate Forest, the biggest forest in germany, adjacent on its eastern side is the upper rhine valley (or rhine rift). The wine road region is up to 15 km wide, many villages directly on the route have the addition "an der Weinstrasse" (on the Wine Route).
The German Wine Route has lots of superlatives, for example: