Palatinate Forest Nature Park

The Palatinate Forest Nature Park is a nature park and is German with its area of ​​179,800 hectares in the south of Rhineland- Palatinate, where it borders on France. 76 % of the nature reserve, which is the center of the Palatinate region, creating the Palatinate Forest, the largest contiguous forest area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. The nature park has an impressive landscape in which mainly noticeable red sandstone rocks. Together with his French continued in northern Alsace, it forms the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord.

Geography

Subregions

Due to its natural structure of the Palatinate Forest is divided into three areas:

  • The Northern or Lower Palatinate Forest, which is bounded on the north by the North Palatine Uplands and presented to the A6 south to roughly
  • The Middle Palatinate Forest, which extends from there to the line Pirmasens -Landau
  • The Southern Palatinate Forest, which extends from the line Pirmasens -Landau to the French border in the south. The southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges mountains together form the cross-border landscape of the Wasgau.

There is also the former nature reserve German Wine Route, which extends the transition to the Rhine valley on the eastern edge of the nature park.

Core zones

According to the latest State Ordinance of 22 January 2007 16 core zones are designated in the Natural Park, which are under special protection:

  • Adelberg at Fischbach bei Dahn ( about 191 ha)
  • Marsh Harriers at Ludwig angle ( about 22 ha)
  • Staff mountain near Neustadt on the Wine Road ( about 227 ha)
  • Bobenthaler button at Bobenthal (about 319 ha)
  • Eischkopf at Eußerthal ( about 58 ha)
  • Enkenbachtal at Elmstein ( about 235 ha)
  • Eulenhald at Waldleiningen ( about 19 ha)
  • Big mountain in Waldleiningen ( about 73 ha)
  • Haidhaldbrunnen at Waldleiningen ( about 4 ha)
  • High heap near Eppenbrunn ( about 54 ha)
  • Humberg at Kaiserslautern ( about 77 ha)
  • Mountain dog in Heltersberg ( about 81 ha)
  • Head Berger plate at Waldleiningen ( about 18 ha)
  • Middle Gleissberg at Esthal ( about 37 ha)
  • Mümmelsköpfe Ludwig angle ( about 51 ha)
  • Headwaters of the Wieslauter ( about 2400 ha)

History

1958, the Palatinate Forest was declared with the involvement of landscape protection areas Palatinate Forest German Wine Road and ice and Eckbachtal a nature park and made in 1967 with a national regulation as a nature reserve Palatinate Forest Nature Park under protection.

In 1992, the Palatinate Forest Nature Park has been recognized as the twelfth German biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Since 1998, he, together with the French Northern Vosges Natural Park, the first cross-border biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord.

Sponsorship

Entity is the Palatinate Forest Nature Park was founded July 20, 1982 eV club members are those counties and cities that in terms of area share in the Nature Park, also the district association Palatinate and various hiking, sports clubs and environmental organizations. So many social forces are included in the Natural Park of work to ensure the greatest possible independence of professional and individual regional interests. The aim of the association is to develop the natural park and biosphere reserve of the same uniform and maintain its uniqueness and beauty as well as its national recreational value and maintain it. The office of the Association is based in Lambrecht since 1997.

The sponsoring organization Palatinate Forest Nature Park eV was dissolved upon decision of its General Assembly on December 4, 2013 December 31, 2013, and transfer its responsibilities to the district association Palatinate. At a meeting of district day Palatinate at the Hambach Castle on December 20, 2013 was the formal decision to take over, so that since 1 January 2014, the district association Palatinate perceives the sole ownership. Seat of the office of the " Palatinate Forest " remains Lambrecht. As part of the organizational restructuring of a committee of 20 members was formed, which is responsible for the diverse interests of nature parks in the first place. It includes not only representatives of political organizations and five members, which previously belonged to the Nature Park Board. There are representatives of the Palatinate Forest Association ( PWV ), the collar of the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany ( BUND), the Pollichia Association for Nature Research and Care, the Association of Friends of Nature and the natural sports federations.

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