Wildsee

The Wildsee between Bad Wildbad and Gern Bach is a Moorkolk in the northern Black Forest in Baden- Württemberg. The surrounding moorland is the biggest natural state high moorland Germany and belongs to nature and forest reserve Kaltenbronn.

Location

The Wildsee with an area of 2.3 hectares is located at an altitude of 909 m above sea level. NN on a plateau between Bad Wildbad, Gernsbach and Forbach. Immediately adjacent is the smaller Hornsee ( 0.7 ha). The nearest village with road access is Kaltenbronn about 2 km to the southwest. The border between the municipalities Gernsbach ( Landkreis Rastatt ) and Bad Wildbad ( Calw ) runs through the Wildsee and the associated nature reserve. The Hornsee is on Gernsbacher district.

Formation

At the end of the last ice age ( 10,000 years ago ) ensured impermeable sandstone layers at high rainfall for swamps. Incomplete decomposition was a up to eight meters deep peat layer in Wildseemoor. The higher the peat layer, the lower the supply of nutrients for the growing plants on this layer. The result is a vegetation relatively undemanding plants ( shrubs, mosses, cotton grass ).

Conservation

The moorland with Wildsee and Hornsee is as close to nature bog with bog forests under protection (nature reserve Wildseemoor; 183.2 ha) to secure the uninfluenced development of the high moor, moorland edge pines and marsh edge spruce forest ecosystems with their specific animal and plant species. In addition, the region is recognized around the lake as protected forest ( forest reserve Wildseemoor, 291 ha). With the Nature Reserve and surrounding protected forest areas Hohlohsee the Wildseemoor is summarized for Nature and Forest Reserve Kaltenbronn (1750 ha) since 2000.

Tourism

The moorland is crossed by an applied through the Black Forest club boardwalk that passes the lake directly. The signs of the trail ( middle Pforzheim- Waldshut ) now leads around the nature reserve.