The Central/North Black Forest Nature Park ( German : Naturpark Schwarzwald Mitte/Nord ) is located in Baden-Württemberg in Germany . It covers an area of 3,750 km and was founded in December 2000. As of 2018, it is the third-largest nature park in Germany.
21-584: In 2014, the Black Forest National Park opened within the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park. It is a maximum of 90 km from north to south and 65 km wide and covers the counties of Calw , Freudenstadt , Karlsruhe , Rastatt , Rottweil , Enzkreis , Ortenaukreis , Baden-Baden and Pforzheim with 105 municipalities in which around 700,000 people live. The Black Forest National Park
42-611: A large number of endangered animal and plant species, are also part of the scenery within the nature park: The variety of habitats is partly due to the very special climate of the Black Forest. Whilst in the vineyards of the foothill zone, it is almost Mediterranean, visitors to highlands, such as the Hornisgrinde , feel almost as if they are in Scandinavia. But this is compensated for in good weather by splendid views of
63-662: Is a national park in the state of Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany . It has an area of 10,062 hectares (100.62 km ; 38.85 sq mi) and is located on the main crest of the Northern Black Forest , mainly between the Black Forest High Road (Schwarzwaldhochstraße) and the valley of the Murg . It comprises two separate areas, roughly 3.5 kilometres apart, around Ruhestein (7,615 ha) and Hoher Ochsenkopf /Plättig (2,447 ha) and
84-559: Is located within the nature park. To the south, it is adjoined by the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . The Central/North Black Forest Nature Park is characterised by its deeply incised valleys, rock outcrops, streams, meadows and pastures. Geology and climate as well as centuries of human interference have created the Black Forest landscape which alternates between natural countryside and an agricultural cultural landscape. Especially valuable habitats, with
105-633: Is part of the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park (Naturpark Schwarzwald Mitte/Nord) . The park was officially opened on 3 May 2014 The Black Forest National Park was created on 1 January 2014 and is the first national park in Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The state parliament voted for its establishment on 28 November 2013. The establishment of the first national park in the Black Forest
126-538: Is the highest point in Forbach and also in the county of Rastatt . The mountain, whose domed summit or kuppe was already a nature reserve lies in the Black Forest National Park which was founded in 2014. Its name (which means "high oxen-peak") recalls its former use as wood pasture . The Hoher Ochsenkopf lies about six kilometres northeast of the highest mountain in the Northern Black Forest,
147-718: The Hornisgrinde , which is 108 metres higher. Like the Badener Höhe three kilometres north it is part of an eastern spur of the main chain of the northern Black Forest , which runs between the Upper Rhine Plain and the Murg valley . This spur is bounded by two western side valleys of the Murg, the valley of the Hundsbach with the Forbach village of Hundsbach in the south and the Schwarzenbach valley with
168-717: The Schwarzenbach Reservoir , and in the west to the Bühlerhöhe beyond the Black Forest High Road. Most of the state forest here belongs to the municipality of Forbach (in the county of Rastatt ). The towns of Bühl (Rastatt) and Baden-Baden own other municipal forests in the area around Plättig. The greater part of the Ruhestein area extends reaches a height of approximately 1,150 m above NHN near Dreifürstenstein in
189-569: The three-toed woodpecker , which had been extinct for many years in the Black Forest. The Hoher Ochsenkopf is accessible on foot from Hundseck on the Black Forest High Road over a roughly three-kilometre-long ridgeway or after a steep climb from Herrenwies or Hundsbach-Aschenplatz/Bridge along the Kirchweg . The start point is the östlichen Dreikohlplatten . From there a path marked by blue and white wooden posts leads initially gently uphill. Later it becomes unmarked and climbs steeply uphill to
210-679: The National Park are the tarns of Wildsee , Huzenbacher See and Buhlbachsee and the upper Schönmünz valley and the headwaters of the Murg headstreams, the Rechtmurg and Rotmurg and other Murg tributaries. On the western slopes of the Schliffkopf this subregions extends down as far as the All Saints Waterfalls , where it reaches is lowest and most westerly point at a height of approximately 500 m. Excluded from
231-737: The Rhine Plain in good weather. In addition, its range of hotels and restaurants alongside a host of cultural attractions make the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park one of the most popular holiday regions in Germany. World renown spas, culture and a range of sporting and tourist facilities for activities like hiking, mountain biking and winter sports add to its popularity. 48°33′41.36″N 8°13′18.70″E / 48.5614889°N 8.2218611°E / 48.5614889; 8.2218611 Black Forest National Park The Black Forest National Park ( German : Nationalpark Schwarzwald )
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#1732772938327252-767: The Ruhestein area are the Ruhestein itself with its two ski slopes and the Great Ruhestein Ski Jump , the Darmstädter Hut, the Schliffkopf Hotel, the Rotmurg Hunting Lodge, the hamlet of Schonmünz (Volzenhäuser) and other small areas. The state forest land here belongs mainly to the collective municipality of Baiersbronn (in the county of Freudenstadt ), other elements belong to Oppenau , Ottenhöfen and Seebach (in
273-575: The county of Ortenaukreis ). The park covers an area of 10,062 hectares, of which 2,447 hectares are within the High Ochsenkopf/Plättig and 7,615 hectares around the Ruhestein. The two areas are separated by the Forbach parish of Hundsbach. High Ochsenkopf The Hoher Ochsenkopf ("High Ochsenkopf", literally "High Oxen Peak") is a mountain in the Northern Black Forest in the municipality of Forbach in south Germany. At 1,054.5 m above sea level (NHN) it
294-539: The minister for environment Thekla Walker (A90/The Greens) announced plans to extent the national park and eventually connect the two parts in the following years. The northern part of the area, the High Ochsenkopf / Plättig includes the upper Schwarzenbach valley and the regions around the High Ochsenkopf ( 1,055 m above sea level (NHN) ) in the centre, the Mehliskopf (1,008 m) in
315-472: The northwest, the 948-metre-high saddle of Dreikohlplatten links the Hoher Ochsenkopf to the Mehliskopf (1008 m). The flat and once deforested domed summit or kuppe , then a typical grinde of the Northern Black Forest, was used in past centuries as pasture . The forest recolonised the area after grazing ended. In 1970 a Bannwald forest, 41.1 hectares in area, was declared around
336-603: The point, where there used to be a seven-metre-high observation tower, built in 1902, that was replaced in 1927 by a 12-metre-high stone tower. After a lightning strike, it was blown up by the Technisches Hilfswerk in 1971. Even today the rubble pile of stone blocks is still visible. The path continues uphill towards the Teufelskamin ("Devil's Chimney"), an open fault in the Bunter sandstone that appears as
357-721: The southeasternmost summit region of the Hornisgrinde , the highest mountain in the northern Black Forest. Other summits are the bird's head (Vogelskopf) (1,056 m) and the Schliffkopf (1,054 m) to the west, the Seekopf (1,054 m) in the northwest, the Riesenköpfle (1,001 m) in the centre, the Leinkopf (992 m) in the north and the Großhahnberg (940 m) in the northeast. In this southern part of
378-584: The summit and, in 1975, it was turned into a nature reserve . In 1986, in order to protect the capercaillie , a bird reserve , 600 ha in area, was declared around the Hoher Ochsenkopf. In 2000 the Bannwald was extended to an area of 100.7 ha and complemented by the surrounding, 427 ha of Schonwald , a form of semi-protected forest, called the Nägeliskopf . Numerous rare and endangered animal and plant species have settled here, including
399-682: The village of Herrenwies in the north and the Schwarzenbach Dam in the northeast. The Hoher Ochsenkopf is linked to the Mittlerer Ochsenkopf ("middle oxen-peak", 1,004.9 m) to the south over the Kegelplatz , a 977-metre-high saddle . The 964-metre-high Vorderer Ochsenkopf ("anterior oxen-peak") adjoins the Mittlerer Ochsenkopf to the south and, further east, is the Nägeliskopf (994 m). In
420-533: The west, the Badener Höhe (1,003 m) in the north and the Nägeliskopf (994 m) in the east. The lowest and most easterly point of this park is at the confluence of the Schwarzbach and Raumünzach streams, at a height of just below 500 m. Excluded are the village of Herrenwies as well as smaller areas around Plättig, Sand and the youth hostel of Badener Höhe . In the northeast, it borders to
441-533: Was politically controversial. In 2013, it was opposed by Baden-Württemberg's opposition parties ( CDU and FDP ), by representatives of the timber industry and by some of the affected population, whilst being supported by the SPD and Greens , the conservation associations and other parts of the populations of the Northern Black Forest . It is the first and only national park in Baden-Württemberg. In 2021
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