The Bavarian Forest is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech border and is continued on the Czech side by the Bohemian Forest. Most of the Bavarian Forest lies within the province of Lower Bavaria, but the northern part lies within Upper Palatinate. In the south it reaches the border with Upper Austria.
The Bavarian Forest National Park is a national park in the Eastern Bavarian Forest immediately on Germany's border with the Czech Republic. It was founded on 7 October 1970 as the first national park in Germany. Since its expansion on 1 August 1997 it has covered an area of 24,250 hectares. Together with the neighbouring Czech Bohemian Forest the Bavarian Forest forms the largest contiguous area of forest in Central Europe.
The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava and in German as Böhmerwald, is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in Germany, and form the highest truncated uplands of the Bohemian Massif, up to 50 km wide. They create a natural border between the Czech Republic on one side and Germany and Austria on the other.
Bayerisch Eisenstein, until 1951 just Eisenstein is a village and a municipality in the Regen district, in Bavaria, Germany.
Rimbach is a municipality in the district of Cham (district) in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany.
The Großer Arber ; Czech: Velký Javor, "Great Maple") or Great Arber, is the highest peak of the Bavarian/Bohemian Forest mountain range and in Lower Bavaria, with an elevation of 1,455.5 metres (4,775 ft). As a result, it is known in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen and the Upper Palatine county of Cham as the "King of the Bavarian Forest". Its summit region consists of paragneiss.
Neuschönau is a municipality in the district of Freyung-Grafenau, in the Lower Bavaria region of Bavaria, in Germany.
The Botanischer Garten der Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald is a botanical garden located adjacent to the Hans-Eisenmann-Haus visitor center in the Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald at Böhmstraße 35, Neuschönau, Bavaria, Germany. The garden contains over 700 plant species found in the Bavarian Forest, in habitats ranging from meadows, slopes, and rock fields, to springs, ponds, and bogs. It also includes geological displays.
The Eifel National Park is the 14th national park in Germany and the first in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Großer Falkenstein or Great Falkenstein, is a mountain, 1,315 metres (4,314 ft) high, in the Bavarian Forest about five kilometres southeast of Bayerisch Eisenstein in the Falkenstein-Rachel region of the Bavarian Forest National Park.
Bayerischer Plöckenstein is a mountain of the Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest, on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. It is not far from the Plöckenstein itself.
On 8 March 1988 the Bavarian State Ministry for State Development and the Environment designated an area of 1,280 square kilometres (490 sq mi) in the Steigerwald in North Bavaria, Germany, as the Steigerwald Nature Park. About half the area consists of protected landscapes. The nature park is run by the Steigerwald Tourist Association and Steigerwald Nature Park.
The Schwandorf–Furth im Wald railway is a 67 km long mainline railway in the German state of Bavaria. It runs from Schwandorf via Cham to Furth im Wald. It is part of a long-distance connection between Germany and the Czech Republic.
The Peene Valley is a landscape in West Pomerania in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It covers the area on either side of the river Peene in the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Greifswald as the river makes its way from Lake Kummerow past the towns of Dargun, Demmin, Loitz, Jarmen, Gützkow and Anklam to its mouth on the Peenestrom.
The Danube Hills, also variously called the Vorderer Forest, Anterior Bavarian Forest or Vorderer Wald, is part of the Bavarian Forest, a low mountain range in Germany.
The Bavarian Forest Nature Park covers an area north of the Danube as far as the border ridge with the Czech Republic. Its sponsor organisation is the Naturpark Bayerischer Wald whose head office is in Zwiesel, Bavaria. It was established in 1967 and is thus the oldest nature park in Bavaria.
The Bavarian Forest Club, or BWV, is a club that promotes culture, local history and folklore, nature and landscape conservation, and walking in the Bavarian Forest in Germany. It has its head office in Zwiesel and is registered in the register of clubs and societies in the district office at Deggendorf.
The Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park covers an area of 1,796 km² and is thus one of the largest nature parks in the German state of Bavaria.
The Plöckenstein is a mountain, 1,379 m (AA) high, in the Bohemian Forest on the Austro-Czech border. Its summit is the highest point in the Bohemian Forest in both countries, and also the highest point in the regions of Mühlviertel and South Bohemia. It is well known as a result of stories by Adalbert Stifter.
The Bavarian Forest Museum Village is an open air museum near Tittling on the southwestern shore of the Dreiburgensee lake in the Bavarian Forest. It covers about 25 hectares and has over 150 buildings from the period from 1580 to 1850 and a local history collection with 60,000 items. It is thus one of the largest open air museums in Europe.
