The Harz National Park is a nature reserve in the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It comprises large portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg at the southern edge to Bad Harzburg and Ilsenburg on the northern slopes. 95 % of the area is covered with forests, mainly with spruce and beech woods, including several bogs, granite rocks and creeks. The park is part of the Natura 2000 network of the European Union. In its current form, the park was created on January 1, 2006 by the merger of the Harz National Park in Lower Saxony, established in 1994, and the Upper Harz National Park in Saxony-Anhalt, established in 1990. As the former inner German border ran through the Harz, large parts of the range were prohibited areas, that apart from the fortifications had remained completely unaffected for decades. Today the park covers parts of the districts of Goslar, Osterode and Harz. Rare animals of the Harz National Park include the Dipper, the Black Stork, Peregrine Falcon, the European Wildcat and especially the Eurasian Lynx. The last lynx in the Harz Mountains had been shot in 1818, but in 1999 a project for reintroducing was established. Since 2002 several wild lynxes gave birth. An attempt to return the Capercaillie (Auerhuhn) however did not succeed. TheBavarian Forest National Parkis a national parkin the rearBavarianForeston the borderwith the Czech Republic. Hewas founded on 7October 1970establishedthe first nationalpark in Germany. Sincethe enlargement of 1August1997, hehas a size of24 250hectares.Together with theCzechBohemian Forest it isthe greatest Forest in European.
Jasmund National Park
The Jasmund National Park is a nature reserve in the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for the largest chalkcliffs of Germany, the so called Königsstuhl (German = "king's chair"). These cliffs are up to 161 m high above the Baltic Sea. The undisturbed beech forests behind the cliffs are also part of the national park. Consisting of only 30 km², this is the smallest national park of Germany. The park was founded in 1990 by the last government of the GDR prior to the German reunification. On June 25th 2011 the beech forest in Jasmund National Park was added to UNESCO World Heritage List as an extension to the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany.
Lower Oder ValleyNationalParkis aNationalParkwas established in1995in Germany. It is locatedon the lower reachesof the Oderin thenorth-eastof Brandenburg, district Uckermark andcovers an areaof 10,500haissurroundedby the NationalPark onthe German sideofthe17 774hectarenature reserveLowerOder ValleyNationalPark region. The national parkisadjacentto thePolishLandscape ParkLowerOder Valley(Dolina Landscape ParkDolnejOdry, 6,000ha) and the ZehdenerLandscape Park(Cedynski Landscape Park, about 30 850ha) and its protectionzone is ageographicalunit.
Sincethe declarations and decisionsof thePolish-GermanEnvironment Councilin 1992, the area with its centralpart betweenthe Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler waterwayandthe ORoperation,including theadjacentareaonthe German sideof Mesopotamiabetween Eastand West, or ofWiduchowa(Fiddichow) toSkosnicachannel(cross Klützertrip)onthe Polish sideregarded ascross-border conservation areaand is calledthe Lower Oder ValleyInternational Park. Thecross-border protectionzone coversa total areaof 1,172square kilometersandcovers bothGerman andPolish sidealongthe Oder Riveronover 60km in length.
Nationalpark Edersee TheNationalParkbasementEderseeis57.40 km² large nationalpark in thenorthernpartof the low mountainforest in thebasementWaldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse (Germany). Since the 25thJune 2011 istheBuchwaldof the National Parkpartof theUNESCO WorldHeritagebeech forestsin the Carpathian mountainsand ancientbeech forestsin Germany.
The NationalPark Serviceis located in theeast of thetown of BadWildungenparks. TheNationalPark, locatedin the westernpart of NorthernHesse,about 40 km(airline) southwest ofKassel, covers a smallnorthernpartof thebasementForest.Its areaisapproximatelycoincidentwiththe mountain region ofthe Ederheights, which spreadssouthincludingthe Edersees. The parkis locatedwithin theborders of nature parkbasementEdersee.
TheNationalParkbasementEderseewho isunsettledin its boundariesincludean areasouth of theEderseesbetween the followingtowns(clockwise from north): Bringhausen, RehbachHemfurth-Edersee Affoldern, Giflitz, smaller, Gellershausen(all toEder), Frebershausen(Bad Wildungen), FrankenauAltenlotheim(to Frankenau), SchmittandKirchlotheim, HarbshausenandAsel-South (all toVöhl).
In the west, north and east itborders thevalleyof the Eder, andinthe EderseeAffoldernerlakelyingin the southeastand south bythat ofWesebachsandin the southwest andthe westsideofthe valley oftheEderLorfebachs.
NationalParkjust north ofKeller-Edersee andon the south bankoftheNationalParkEderseesEderseeisaffiliatedwiththebird show"Raptor Edersee" and the bookForestInformation Centre"Fagutop".
THE WADDEN SEA
The Wadden Sea is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. The tides there are very extreme, sometimes you can go many kilometres to the sea. In the summer it´s warm and much people come to the sea to enjoy the weather, the sand and the water. In the Sea lives common seals and many sea gulls. The sea gulls eat everything what you throw at them. The total area of the Wadden Sea is 10 000 kilometres.
The Harz National Park is a nature reserve in the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It comprises large portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg at the southern edge to Bad Harzburg and Ilsenburg on the northern slopes. 95 % of the area is covered with forests, mainly with spruce and beech woods, including several bogs, granite rocks and creeks. The park is part of the Natura 2000 network of the European Union.
In its current form, the park was created on January 1, 2006 by the merger of the Harz National Park in Lower Saxony, established in 1994, and the Upper Harz National Park in Saxony-Anhalt, established in 1990. As the former inner German border ran through the Harz, large parts of the range were prohibited areas, that apart from the fortifications had remained completely unaffected for decades. Today the park covers parts of the districts of Goslar, Osterode and Harz.
Rare animals of the Harz National Park include the Dipper, the Black Stork, Peregrine Falcon, the European Wildcat and especially the Eurasian Lynx. The last lynx in the Harz Mountains had been shot in 1818, but in 1999 a project for reintroducing was established. Since 2002 several wild lynxes gave birth. An attempt to return the Capercaillie (Auerhuhn) however did not succeed.
TheBavarian Forest National Parkis a national parkin the rearBavarianForeston the borderwith the Czech Republic. Hewas founded on 7October 1970establishedthe first nationalpark in Germany. Sincethe enlargement of 1August1997, hehas a size of24 250hectares.Together with theCzechBohemian Forest it isthe greatest Forest in European.
Jasmund National Park
The Jasmund National Park is a nature reserve in the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for the largest chalkcliffs of Germany, the so called Königsstuhl (German = "king's chair"). These cliffs are up to 161 m high above the Baltic Sea. The undisturbed beech forests behind the cliffs are also part of the national park.
Consisting of only 30 km², this is the smallest national park of Germany. The park was founded in 1990 by the last government of the GDR prior to the German reunification.
On June 25th 2011 the beech forest in Jasmund National Park was added to UNESCO World Heritage List as an extension to the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany.
Lower Oder ValleyNationalParkis aNationalParkwas established in1995in Germany. It is locatedon the lower reachesof the Oderin thenorth-eastof Brandenburg, district Uckermark andcovers an areaof 10,500haissurroundedby the NationalPark onthe German sideofthe17 774hectarenature reserveLowerOder ValleyNationalPark region. The national parkisadjacentto thePolishLandscape ParkLowerOder Valley(Dolina Landscape ParkDolnejOdry, 6,000ha) and the ZehdenerLandscape Park(Cedynski Landscape Park, about 30 850ha) and its protectionzone is ageographicalunit.
Sincethe declarations and decisionsof thePolish-GermanEnvironment Councilin 1992, the area with its centralpart betweenthe Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler waterwayandthe ORoperation,including theadjacentareaonthe German sideof Mesopotamiabetween Eastand West, or ofWiduchowa(Fiddichow) toSkosnicachannel(cross Klützertrip)onthe Polish sideregarded ascross-border conservation areaand is calledthe Lower Oder ValleyInternational Park. Thecross-border protectionzone coversa total areaof 1,172square kilometersandcovers bothGerman andPolish sidealongthe Oder Riveronover 60km in length.
Nationalpark Edersee
TheNationalParkbasementEderseeis57.40 km² large nationalpark in thenorthernpartof the low mountainforest in thebasementWaldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse (Germany). Since the 25thJune 2011 istheBuchwaldof the National Parkpartof theUNESCO WorldHeritagebeech forestsin the Carpathian mountainsand ancientbeech forestsin Germany.
The NationalPark Serviceis located in theeast of thetown of BadWildungenparks.
TheNationalPark, locatedin the westernpart of NorthernHesse,about 40 km(airline) southwest ofKassel, covers a smallnorthernpartof thebasementForest.Its areaisapproximatelycoincidentwiththe mountain region ofthe Ederheights, which spreadssouthincludingthe Edersees. The parkis locatedwithin theborders of nature parkbasementEdersee.
TheNationalParkbasementEderseewho isunsettledin its boundariesincludean areasouth of theEderseesbetween the followingtowns(clockwise from north): Bringhausen, RehbachHemfurth-Edersee Affoldern, Giflitz, smaller, Gellershausen(all toEder), Frebershausen(Bad Wildungen), FrankenauAltenlotheim(to Frankenau), SchmittandKirchlotheim, HarbshausenandAsel-South (all toVöhl).
In the west, north and east itborders thevalleyof the Eder, andinthe EderseeAffoldernerlakelyingin the southeastand south bythat ofWesebachsandin the southwest andthe westsideofthe valley oftheEderLorfebachs.
NationalParkjust north ofKeller-Edersee andon the south bankoftheNationalParkEderseesEderseeisaffiliatedwiththebird show"Raptor Edersee" and the bookForestInformation Centre"Fagutop".
THE WADDEN SEA
The Wadden Sea is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
The tides there are very extreme, sometimes you can go many kilometres to the sea. In the summer it´s warm and much people come to the sea to enjoy the weather, the sand and the water. In the Sea lives common seals and many sea gulls. The sea gulls eat everything what you throw at them. The total area of the Wadden Sea is 10 000 kilometres.