Black Forest (Schwarzwald)

National Park

Baden-WürttembergDesignated in 2014100 km²

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The first national park in Baden-Württemberg, in the heart of the forest that gave rise to the Brothers Grimm's tales

Area

100 km²

Protection category

IUCN II

Parque nacional —

Designated in

2014

Highlight

Germany's youngest national park and the first in Baden-Württemberg, in the heart of the forest that gave rise to the Brothers Grimm's tales

Declared in 2014, it is the first national park in the state of Baden-Württemberg, protecting a portion of the legendary forest that for centuries fed the German popular imagination of fairy tales, several of them collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. It is managed on the same principle of minimal human intervention as other recent German national parks, letting the forest's natural succession run its course after centuries of intensive logging.

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