Mundat Forest

[3] The Upper Mundat Forest is an area of roughly 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) that stretches north and west from the Alsatian town Wissembourg.

The Lower Mundat Forest is an area of roughly 20 square kilometres (8 sq mi), east of Wissembourg in the plain formed by the Rhine rift.

[5] These possessions, the Mundat, had dimensions of about 20 km × 16 km (12 mi × 10 mi) and included the villages of Altenstadt,[6] Schleithal, Oberseebach, Steinseltz, Oberhoffen, Cleebourg, Rott, Weiler,[6] St. Germanshof, Bobenthal, Schlettenbach, Finsternheim, Bärenbach, Schweigen and Rechtenbach, Schweighofen, Kapsweyer, and Steinfeld.

[5] In 1524 the monastery was heavily encumbered, so Pope Clement VII transformed it into a collegiate church,[5][7] and from 1546 it stood under the authority of Speyer.

As a result of the treaty the town of Wissembourg had 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of forest on the German side of the border, in co-ownership with the Bavarian state.

[citation needed] While the attempts to normalize the situation were ongoing, there was vocal protest by a number of West German citizens who rejected any solution that acknowledged the French claim.

In the 1960s one objector pressed criminal charges, a retired appellate court president drew public comparisons to the Soviet occupation zone, and a law journal published criticism.

[18] In 1988 a retired notary requested that a local court appoint him to represent the interests of the German Reich against the Federal Republic of Germany.

[14] He argued that since the area in question was under French administration when the West German state was founded in 1949, the Weimar constitution was still in force in it.