Sickingen Heights

[1] The hilly plateau, which lies at heights from 300 to 430 m above sea level (NN) descends very steeply in the north in several, densely wooded, escarpments to the Landstuhl Marsh.

Somewhat less rugged in appearance is the plateau's westward transition to the Saarland and even less than that in the east, where the valley of the Moosalb forms the boundary.

Much of the Sickingen Heights is drained southwards by the Moosalb, Wallhalb and Auerbach into the Schwarzbach and then via the Blies, Saar and Moselle into the Rhine.

Due to its remoteness, the region is well suited for hiking e.g. along the Mill Trail in the Wallhalb Valley.

Over the Sickingen Heights runs the waymarked North Route of the Palatine sections of the historic Way of St. James.