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View from Kleine Kalmit – Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020 loop from Südliche Weinstraße

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Südpfalz

View from Kleine Kalmit – Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020 loop from Südliche Weinstraße

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View from Kleine Kalmit – Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020 loop from Südliche Weinstraße

01:09

4.10km

70m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 22, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Kleine Kalmit

Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord

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1.77 km

View from Kleine Kalmit

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The Kleine Kalmit is located in the east of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park near the wine and holiday resort of Ilbesheim. The name "Little Kalmit" comes from the Latin term calvus mons, which means bare mountain. It was created when the Rhine graben subsided 30 million years ago as a deposit of shell limestone.

The white-grey Tertiary limestone is covered by a thin layer of humus. Among other things, the rare pasque flower and various types of orchids thrive here. The Kleine Kalmit also offers a habitat for numerous rare species of spiders and butterflies. Because of this unique flora and fauna, the Kleine Kalmit was declared a nature reserve.

The Kleine Kalmit used to be considered the weather mountain and the home of the weather witches. There were often processions up to the summit cross to ask for good weather. The Mater Dolorosa Chapel was built in 1851 by a priest from the neighboring community of Arzheim to “comfort the poor souls”.

The Kalmit Festival, the most beautiful wine festival in the Palatinate in 2004, takes place around the Kleine Kalmit every year at the end of July.

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1.80 km

Mater Dolorosa Chapel on the Kleine Kalmit

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The Kleine Kamit is a geological and botanical gem in which the rare pasque flower thrives particularly well, as do gentian, silver thistle and various types of orchids.
Thanks to its calcareous soil, the Kleine Kalmit also offers the best conditions for viticulture. The Burgundy vines in particular thrive here.

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1.91 km

View of Ilbesheim and the Palatinate from Kleine Kalmit

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Easily accessible summit. Located just 100 meters above Ilbesheim, you have a sensational panoramic view of the Rhine plain and the Palatinate mountains.

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1.95 km

Extra-long bench with a spectacular view of the Palatinate Forest

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Wow, this view from the Kleine Kalmit to the west, i.e. towards the Haardt (= edge of the Palatinate Forest), is spectacular! And the rest bench certainly is too, because it's oversized!
If the space isn't enough, there's another very long bench behind it, but with a somewhat overgrown view.

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2.31 km

Kalmitwingert (historic vineyard)

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Here on the southern slope of the Kleine Kalmit, the historic Kalmitwingert was created in 1996 with its vine training methods from antiquity to modern times.

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2.34 km

Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020

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On the Kalkberg Kleine Kamit you have an all-round view. To the Rhine plain and the villages on the edge of Haard. The rare pasque flower blooms here from March.

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3.54 km

Madonna statue in Arzheim

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4.10 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.32 km

1.06 km

388 m

316 m

Surfaces

2.24 km

1.15 km

442 m

248 m

Elevation

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Highest point (260 m)

Lowest point (190 m)

Weather

Sunday 26 July

27°C

17°C

33 %

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Max wind speed: 18.0 km/h

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View from Kleine Kalmit – Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020 loop from Südliche Weinstraße

View from Kleine Kalmit

Mater Dolorosa Chapel on the Kleine Kalmit

View of Ilbesheim and the Palatinate from Kleine Kalmit

Extra-long bench with a spectacular view of the Palatinate Forest

Kalmitwingert (historic vineyard)

Most Beautiful Wine View Palatinate 2020

Madonna statue in Arzheim

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