Location The Queitersberg lies in the municipal forest of
Kaiserslautern between the city, whose built-up area ends 500 metres to the west, and the village of
Hochspeyer two kilometres southeast. About a hundred metres north of the main summit there is a somewhat lower, plateau-like subpeak with a
bunter sandstone rock outcrop. The sandstone formation is a natural monument with the name
Felsplatt ("Rock Slab").
Streams The Queitersberg seals the eastern side of the
Kaiserslautern Basin; the
watershed runs over it from southwest to northeast, separating the source region of the
Lauter from that of the
Hochspeyerbach. The Lauter, which is also called the
Waldlauter, flows via the
Glan to the
Nahe and is part of that river's
catchment area. The water of the Hochspeyerbach flows via the
Speyerbach to the
Upper Rhine.
Surrounding area Queitersberg is 500 metres from the Queitersberg to the
A 6 motorway to the north (
Saarbrücken–
Mannheim). Between two of its junctions -
16b Kaiserslautern-Ost and
17 Enkenbach-Alsenborn - there is a car park on the southern side in the direction of Mannheim, called
Quaidersberg. 1500 metres from the summit to the south is the
B 37 federal highway (Kaiserslautern–
Bad Dürkheim). In a bowl between the Queitersberg and Hochspeyer lies the spring of
Hundsbrunnen. == References ==