{"id":7689,"date":"2016-09-10T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:04:02","slug":"german-nationalparks-part-14-hunsruck-hochwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-nationalparks-part-14-hunsruck-hochwald\/","title":{"rendered":"German Nationalparks \u2013 Part 14: Hunsr\u00fcck-Hochwald"},"content":{"rendered":"

In previous months, we have already explored a large part of the gesch\u00fctzte Sch\u00f6nheit\u00a0<\/em>(protected beauty) of German nature.\u00a0We went to the windige K\u00fcsten\u00a0<\/em>(windy shores) of the\u00a0Wattenmeer<\/a>, <\/em>the\u00a0eindrucksvolle Felsen\u00a0<\/em>(impressive rocks) of the\u00a0S\u00e4chsische Schweiz<\/a>, <\/em>the\u00a0Jahrhunderte alten W\u00e4lder\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(centuries old forests) of the\u00a0Bayerischer Wald<\/a><\/em>, the\u00a0Erzminen\u00a0<\/em>(ore mines) in the\u00a0Harz<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>Tiger\u00a0<\/em>(tigers) roaming around in the\u00a0Eifel<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Tausend Seen\u00a0<\/em>(thousand lakes) of\u00a0M\u00fcritz<\/a><\/em>, the hohe Gebirge\u00a0<\/em>(high mountain ranges) of\u00a0Berchtesgaden<\/a>, <\/em>and the atemberaubende Natur\u00a0<\/em>(stunning nature) of the\u00a0Schwarzwald<\/a><\/em>. We discovered the\u00a0bedrohten<\/em>\u00a0Kreidefelsen\u00a0<\/em>(threatened chalk cliffs) of\u00a0Jasmund<\/a><\/em>. We visited\u00a0Hainich<\/a><\/em>, and its\u00a0Alte Buchen\u00a0<\/em>(old beeches). Then, we went to\u00a0Hessen<\/em>, to\u00a0Kellerwald-Edersee<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>with the\u00a0Staudamm\u00a0<\/em>(dam) of the\u00a0Edersee<\/em> and its old forests. We then returned north to the beautiful lagoons of the\u00a0Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>And last time, we visited the unique\u00a0Polder-Landschaft\u00a0<\/em>(polder landscape) of \u00a0the\u00a0Unteres Odertal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the last post of this series of German national parks. And today, we visit not only the last park in this series, but also the youngest\u00a0Nationalpark\u00a0<\/em>of Germany!\u00a0I hope that you liked the series and let me know if you would like to see more series\u00a0like this and whether it helped you to learn about German culture and the German language!<\/p>\n

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The National Parks in Germany (Image by Lencer at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n

Der Nationalpark Hunsr\u00fcck-Hochwald<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

The youngest\u00a0Nationalpark\u00a0<\/em>is really<\/span> young: it was established only a year ago. The sixteenth park was officially opened during the\u00a0Pfingstwochenende<\/em> (Pentecost weekend) 2015. It is located in the west, with a small part of the park located in\u00a0Bundesland\u00a0<\/em>(federal state)\u00a0Saarland<\/em>, below the Eifel<\/a>. The rest of the 10.120 hectares (25.000 acres) is located in\u00a0Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz\u00a0<\/em>(Rhineland-Palatinate).<\/p>\n

The park is located on the\u00a0Hunsr\u00fcck<\/em>, a\u00a0Mittelgebirge\u00a0<\/em>(low mountain range). The\u00a0Erbeskopf\u00a0<\/em>is the highest mountain of the\u00a0Gebirge\u00a0<\/em>(see below).<\/p>\n

What is special about the\u00a0Nationalpark Hunsr\u00fcck-Hochwald<\/em>?<\/h2>\n