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National park ‚Bavarian Forest’
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"Let nature be nature"
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The national park ‘Bavarian Forest’ is unique in Central Europe. Nowhere else woods can come into being, grow and die in such a large area without action by mankind. That way trees can grow up to enormous dimensions - like they don’t exist anywhere else any longer.
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When the storms break down parts of the woods, the trunks remain lying down in the forest, rot away and open the best chance for the growth of a new generation of woods. And it can also happen that enfeebled trees are infested by insects, die and then - what is quite abnormal for our eyes as they are used to tidy forests - these dead trees remain standing there for years. This way they offer an optimal living condition for a wide range of animal and plant species.
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According to international rules national parks protect the natural development of biocoenosis, in this case the one of woods. The national park protects a valuable European natural heritage and therefore it was approved internationally in 1972. The park is situated at the frontier with Bohemia, where the national park ‘Sumova’ was founded in 1991.
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It’s also unusual, that there is no hunting in the centre zone of the national park in an area of 10.000 ha, that means that fauna can live widely undisturbed by men. Thereto the 320 km long and well signposted network of hiking trails contributes as well. From this network of hiking trails, which is not allowed to be left in the central zone, the park is accessible from the valleys to the high altitude areas.
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The national park has got many faces and it offers more than just a spacious open-air enclosure, in which local big animal species can be watched in near-natural environment. Themed ‘experience woods - understand nature’ it is a unique meeting place with pristine, genuine nature of woods, in whose natural development mankind doesn’t interfere any longer.
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A special recommendation:
In summer 2006 the building ‘world of experience’ Haus zur Wildnis was opened nearby Ludwigsthal.
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It offers a special architecture, plenty of information on the subject of wildlife and vegetation in the Bavarian Forest as well as a Stone Age cave in the close proximity and a comfortable circular path through the spacious near-naturally landscaped open-air enclosure with lynx, wolf, aurochs and wild cows and steers living in close touch with nature.
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The Hans-Eisenmann-Haus in Neuschönau is another excursion destination which is worth seeing. There you can visit exhibitions, watch films and slide shows, browse interesting books in the library or in the themed room ‘Experience’ you can get in closer contact with nature and discover its secret beauty with the microscope.
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