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Adrian Ludwig Richter: Genoveva in der Waldeinsamkeit, 1841 Two Poster stamps called Deutscher Wald and "In a German Forest", about 1928 by Otto Altenkirch A woodland cemetery. The German Forest (German: Deutscher Wald) was a phrase used both as a metaphor as well as to describe in exaggerated terms an idyllic landscape in German poems, fairy ...
The forests of Germany covers 11.4 million hectares (28.2 Acres), 32 percent of the total area of the country (as of 2012). In the German forests grow about 90 billion trees with a total wood stock of 3.7 billion cubic meters. [1] The definition of the Federal Forest Act (BWaldG) for forest is: "any area planted with forest plants.
Together with the adjacent Upper Palatine Forest on the far side of the Cham-Furth Depression, and the Neuburg Forest south of Passau, the Bavarian Forest forms the largest contiguous area of woodland in Bavaria and, together with the Bohemian Forest and the Sauwald (its southeastern continuation towards Upper Austria), it forms one of the largest contiguous forests in Europe.
Pages in category "Forests and woodlands of Germany" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Pasture woodland (Hutewald or Hudewald), or grazing forest, is an ancient form of use, as well as forest farmland (Waldäcker) or forest fields, as a combined agricultural and forestry form of land use; Next, there are a variety of obsolete special uses, such as Lohwald, which were only local or regional.
View of the Black Forest from Feldberg (2003); the forest is a very reduced relict tract of the once unbroken Hercynian Forest. The Hercynian Forest was an ancient and dense forest that stretched across Western Central Europe, from Northeastern France to the Carpathian Mountains, including most of Southern Germany, though its boundaries are a matter of debate.
The Lower German Limes protected the Roman province of Germania Inferior (Lower Germany), along the Rhine from the Rhenish Massif to the North Sea coast. The fortifications were established in the late 1st century BCE and remained in use until the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire in the early 5th century CE. The site comprises 102 ...
The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany include five locations, cover 4,391 hectares and were added in 2011. The Carpathian site covers a total area of 77,971.6 ha (192,672 acres), out of which only 29,278.9 ha (72,350 acres) are part of the actual preserved area, while the rest is considered a "buffer zone".