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16-793: Dahn is located 210 m above sea level in a valley of the Dahner Felsenland , a part of the Wasgau , which is itself a part of the Palatinate Forest . A small creek , the Lauter , flows through Dahn, and here, in the area of its headwaters, is called the Wieslauter . The border with Alsace ( France ) is located 10 km south of Dahn. In 1952 the coat of arms was recreated as a result of historical research. The new shield, parted per chevron, has on its dexter chief: azure (blue),

32-480: A cross argent (silver); on its sinister chief: gules (red), an eagle argent (silver) and on its base: or (gold), a fir tree vert (green). The fir tree ( German : Tanne , [assumed to be linked to the name of the town]) was originally the only symbol of Dahn. However, the new coat of arms also commemorates the history of Dahn. The knights of Than, feudatories of the bishop of Speyer , were the lords of Dahn for over four hundred years and may have called themselves after

48-469: A junction between the road and the A 8 motorway (from Pirmasens to Karlsruhe ) which was planned to run past Dahn has never been realised. Since 1997 the Wieslauter Railway calls at Dahn on Sundays and statutory holidays. It connects Hinterweidenthal and Bundenthal . Regular public train services stopped in 1966. The public hospital, St. Josef Krankenhaus , closed at the end of 2005 as

64-768: A large number of waymarked walking routes . In Dahn itself is the Felsenland Youth Hostel which is part of the German Youth Hostel Association . In the Dahner Felsenland there are 16 medieval castles or castle ruins as well as numerous rock formations made of bunter sandstone , that are used by sport climbers . Old legends surround rocks like the Jungfernsprung or the Devil's Table ( Teufelstisch ) (see

80-648: A result of funding issues. The Felsenland-Klinik , a psychotheraputic hospital, uses its own specially developed technique of psychoanalytic hypnosis. Dahn also has an outpatient living group of the Pfalzklinikum für Psychiatrie und Neurologie ("Palatinate Hospital For Psychiatrics And Neurology"), which is situated in Klingenmünster . The primary school in Dahn serves the municipality of Dahn as well as Schindhard and Erfweiler . The school centre of Dahn

96-583: Is an Elwetritsche lecture trail, an Elwetritsche hiking trail as well as Elwetritsche fountains and further memorials. Dahn, unfortunately, has had to survive without much industry due to the Südwestpfalz district's structural weakness. Because of this the population has declined. Only tourism shows an upwards trend because nature in the surrounding area is largely intact and frequently quite spectacular. The B 427 federal road (from Hinterweidenthal to Bad Bergzabern ) passes through Dahn. The plan for

112-814: Is within the commuter belt of a Realschule Plus and the Otfried-von-Weißenburg-Gymnasium of Western-Wasgau. This gymnasium is the only one in the Südwestpfalz administrative district. Dahn also has a special needs school (the Ritter-von-Tann-Förderschule ). During the years 1958 through 1994 the Catholic Church operated a boarding school , the Studienheim St. Pirmin . Dahner Felsenland The Dahner Felsenland , also referred to as

128-811: The Dahn Rockland , is a landscape in the county of Südwestpfalz in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the middle section of the Wasgau , which in turn forms the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the northern part of the Vosges in France . The Dahner Felsenland has numerous rock formations within the South Palatinate Climbing Area ( Klettergebiet Südpfalz ). The landscape covers almost

144-829: The Legend of the Jungfernsprung and Legend of the Devil’s Table ). Amongst the castles, the Dahn castles , the Berwartstein and the Drachenfels are the best known. The Dahner Felsenland may be reached via the A8 motorway (from the west) and A 65 motorway (from the east), in each case using the B 10 federal highway that links the two autobahns . The B 427 (from Hinterweidenthal to Bad Bergzabern ) runs right through

160-484: The Second World War . A 70 m tall rock juts above the city and is a famous destination for rock climbers during the summer. Its name Jungfernsprung ("Virgin's Leap"), is derived from an old legend. Even nowadays the forests and sandstone rocks surrounding Dahn give fantastic Lebensraum to the fabulous Elwetritsche . To honour the excellent relation between inhabitants of Dahn and Elwetritsche there

176-671: The Dahn Valley ( Dahner Tal ), the originally planned section of the A 8 motorway from Pirmasens to Karlsruhe , running past Dahn, was never realised. Running parallel to the B ;427 in places is a branch of the Queich Valley Railway (Pirmasens– Landau ), the Wieslauter Railway that links the villages of Hinterweidenthal in the north and Bundenthal in the south of the Dahner Felsenland. The route

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192-633: The neighbourhood of Dahn are the ruins of a triple castle complex, comprising Altdahn , Grafendahn and Tanstein castles, as well as the castle of Neudahn , which is also a ruin, albeit less spectacular. South of the town, on the edge of the Hochstein rocks is Dahn Cemetery, a war cemetery for soldiers of the Palatinate and the Alsace who fell during the Ardennes Offensive in

208-552: The same area as the collective municipality of the same name , which incorporates the town of Dahn and 14 villages. The Dahner Felsenland is part of the Palatine Forest Nature Park . It lies between 200 m (valleys) and 400 m (hilltops) high and is drained by the Lauter , which here in its upper reaches is called the Wieslauter , into the River Rhine . The region has been opened up by

224-513: The town; the white eagle with red background is derived from the knight's coat of arms, which showed three white eagles (perhaps the symbol for the three castles of Altdahn, Grafdahn and Tannstein ). After the extinction of the House of Than in 1603, Dahn was the head office of a department of the diocese of Speyer until the beginning of the French revolutionary wars in 1797/98. The white cross on blue

240-673: Was adopted from the arms of Speyer (both the diocese and the Prince-Bishopric . The fir tree remains as a reference to the name of the town, which was the old seal of the Court, as well as the scenic location of the city in the Palatinate Forest . Dahn received its municipal law on 27 October 1963 after the Land (Federal State) of Rhineland-Palatinate acceded to its application, which had been filed on 24 January 1963. Aldermen : (Elections on 25 May 2014, number of mandates: 20) In

256-569: Was re-opened in 1997 for excursions on Sundays and holidays, after regular passenger services had been terminated in 1966. Klingenm%C3%BCnster Klingenmünster is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate , western Germany . It is the site of Landeck Castle and the birthplace of Michael Hahn , the 19th governor of Louisiana. This Südliche Weinstraße location article

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