The Devil's Table stands a few hundred metres south of the B 10 road and west of Hinterweidenthal-Kaltenbach on a 312-metre-high[1] ridge, which runs for over two kilometres from Etschberg in the southwest to the 324-metre-high Handschuh-Kopf [de] in the northeast.
[2] The German term Buntsandstein is used to describe a lithostratigraphic rock unit that consists largely of interbedded sand-, silt- and claystones.
[4] The lack of boulders and clay in these fine-grained and light brick-red to orange coloured thin layers indicates the absence of water for the most part of the sedimentation process.
The shape of the Devil’s Table and its thin pillars is defined by preexisting fractures at the upper and lower end of the tabletop.
[4] The natural monument of the „Devil’s Table“ represents an important landmark of the Palatinate Forest and was classified as a „National Geotope“ in 2006.