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FRANKENWALD , a mountainous See also:district of See also:Germany, forming the See also:geological connexion between the See also:Fichtelgebirge and the Thuringian See also:Forest. It is a broad well-wooded See also:plateau, See also:running for about 30 M. in a See also:north-See also:westerly direction, descending gently on the north and eastern sides towards the See also:Saale, but more precipitously to the Bavarian See also:plain in the See also:west, and attaining its highest See also:elevation in the Kieferle near Steinheid (2900 ft.). Along the centre lies the See also:watershed between the basins of the See also:Main and the Saale, belonging to the systems of the See also:Rhine and See also:Elbe respectively. The See also:principal tributaries of the Main from the Frankenwald are the Rodach and Hasslach, and of the Saale, the Selbitz. See H. Schmid, Fuhrer durch den Frankenwald (See also:Bamberg, 1894) ; See also:Meyer, Thurin en and der Frankenwald (15th ed., See also:Leipzig, 1900), and See also:Gumbel, Geognostische Beschreibung See also:des Fichtelgebirges 'nit dem Frankenwald (See also:Gotha, 1879). End of Article: FRANKENWALDAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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