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Location: Waldleiningen, Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

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2. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

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3. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

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260m

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Manfred 🌳🥾

November 20, 2018

"The world axis will be smacked in, unconcerned that nothing will go wrong!"

If you want to believe the words of the local poet Paul Münch, Waldleiningen is the center of the world. Deep in the forest between our village and Johanniskreuz, on the 459m high Roßrück there is a huge sandstone block with the above-mentioned inscription. And according to Paul Münch, the people of the Palatinate, especially we Waldleininger, have the honorable task of properly lubricating the Weltachs.

The lubrication of the world axis, the responsible task that has long become a tradition, goes back to the year 1964. The love of the Palatinate for their homeland, which is their pride and joy, is also expressed in a beautiful passage of the "Palatinate world history", the At the beginning of the sixties of the last century, a forester living in Waldleiningen encouraged to erect the cultural monument in the forests of Waldleiningen.

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Biitii 105 💗💜

July 27, 2019

How it came to this: The Bavarian administration had a landmark set on a small rock table in order to be able to measure the area typographically. Nothing extraordinary in itself. But the dialect poet Paul Münch (1879-1951) made here in a poem the axis of the world out of it. His main work, which is characterized by humor and irony, the "Palatine World History", makes the Palatinate the center of the world, the true cradle of humanity. In the Palatine dialect 😊

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October 16, 2021

a really great view

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Location: Waldleiningen, Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock)

1. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

2. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

3. Ritterstein 140: Stable – Pfälzer Weltachse (World Axis Rock) loop from Mölschbach

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