Southern Black Forest Nature Park

The Southern Black Forest Nature Park (German: Naturpark Südschwarzwald) covers an area of 394,000 hectares and is, at present, the largest nature park in Germany.

The Southern Black Forest Nature Park was established on February 1, 1999. Originally it comprised an area of 370,000 hectares, in 2005 it was expanded to 370,000 hectares and in 2014 finally to its present size of 394,000 hectares. It is one of seven nature parks in Baden-Württemberg.

It is located in the Southern Black Forest in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg, extending from Herbolzheim and Triberg in the north to Waldshut-Tiengen and Lörrach in the south and from the Black Forest foothills near Freiburg and Emmendingen in the west to Donaueschingen and Bad Dürrheim on the high plateau of the Baar in the east.

Three of the highest mountains of the Black Forest are located within the Southern Black Forest Nature Park:

Other mountains within the park are, e.g.:

Whereas the valleys offer generally a warmer and more balanced climate than the surrounding mountains, it is cooler in the ravines. As a consequence thereof, in the valleys of the Upper and High Rhine species from the Mediterranean region further south may already be found, while in the narrow ravines of the High Black Forest there may still be relics from the last ice age.

Well-known valleys and ravines in the Southern Black Forest are, e.g.: Wutach ravine (German: Wutachschlucht), Haslach flume (Haslachklamm), Rötenbach flume (Rötenbachklamm), Alb valley (Albtal), Ravenna Gorge (Ravennaschlucht), Simonswald valley (Simonswälder Tal), Münster valley (Münstertal), Schleifenbach ravine (Schleifenbachschlucht), Windberg ravine (Windbergschlucht), Great and Small Wiese valley (Wiesental), High Wehra ravine (Hohwehraschlucht) and Wehra valley (Wehratal) as well as Gauchach ravine (Gauchachschlucht) and Enge ravine (Engeschlucht).

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