Thuringian Forest Nature Park

Thuringian Forest Nature Park
Location of the Thuringian Forest Nature Park

The Thuringian Forest Nature Park (German: Naturpark Thüringer Wald) is one of the two nature parks in Thuringia.


Few from Grosser Finsterberg to Beerberg and Schneekopf (The three highest mountains of Thuringia)

The 1990 founded park has a size of 2082 km². It extents around the Rennsteig and comprises almost the entire Thuringian Forest and the Thuringian Highlands with Eisenach in northwest and Sonneberg in the south. It includes further the 170 km² the biosphere reservation Vessethal-Thuringian Forest, and last but not least a number of dams like Talsperre Tambach-Dietharz, Talsperre Schmalwasser, Ohra-Talsperre, Talsperre Lütsche and the Leibis-Lichte Dam.

The highest mountains in the park are the Grosser Beerberg (982 m above sea level) and the Schneekopf (978 m above sea level).

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