Black Forest Facts for Kids

Map of the Black Forest

The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) is a world famous forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Important towns are (from north to south): Pforzheim, Calw, Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Freudenstadt, Horb, Villingen-Schwenningen, Titisee-Neustadt and Waldshut-Tiengen. The highest mountain is the Feldberg (1492m).

The Black Forest is quite popular for hiking, skiing and Nordic walking. In Triberg, at the lake Titisee and in other places you can buy the famous cuckoo clocks. A good way to get known to the Black Forest is to travel on the Deutsche Uhrenstraße, a "National Scenic Byway."

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The Black Forest on the Tabula Peutingeriana: a mountain chain with fantastically formed trees as a symbol of an unsettled and virtually inaccessible terrain
Black Forest farmhouse, 1898
An unmarried Black Forest woman wearing a red Bollenhut, 1898
Woods and pastures of the High Black Forest near Breitnau
The Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Black Forest, SE of Freiburg
Slopes of the Northern Black Forest to the Upper Rhine Plain (Northern Black Forest Valleys)
Grassland economy in side valleys of the Kinzig, Central Black Forest
The Belchen in the Southern Black Forest with its bare dome, seen from Münstertal
The River Schiltach in Schiltach
The Schluchsee, north of St. Blasien
One of two patterns of Cego trump cards
Central/North Black Forest Nature Park: view from the Hornisgrinde (highest mountain of the Northern Black Forest)
The Altstadt of Altensteig in the Northern Black Forest
The Vogtsbauernhof (1612) of the Black Forest Open Air Museum in the Gutach valley
The Gutach bridge on the Höllental Railway
Winter on Schauinsland: famous "Windbuchen" Beeches bent by the wind
Black Forest track
Hornisgrinde plateau and raised bog (2004). Behind: transmission mast and wind generators
Trunks of White Fir from Gersbach hold up the largest unsupported wooden roof in the world at Expo 2000
Clockmaker's workshop in a sitting room (postcard from around 1900)
The Straßerhof Mill in Hornberg, a typical Black Forest farming mill
The Hornberg Basin near Herrischried, upper reservoir of the Wehr pumped storage station (emptied, May 2008).
Traditionally, the Bollenhut is worn by unmarried women as part of the tracht.
Arnold Lyongrün: "Frühling im Schwarzwald" (1912)
"Kinderreigen" (1872) by Black Forest artist Hans Thoma
Black Forest landscape by J. Metzler
Black Forest landscape by J. Metzler
Black Forest farmhouse, painted by Wilhelm Hasemann
A Gutach family, painted by Wilhelm Hasemann (ca. 1900)
German cuckoo clock
Black Forest ham with German bread
A Black Forest cake
Slice of a Black Forest Cake
Fastnacht in the Black Forest
Carnival pleasure in the Black Forest (1890)
Fastnacht in Gernsbach (Black Forest)
The Feldberg
View from the Belchen towards the Alps
Cattle near Simonswald
The Titisee, popular year-round
The Minster in Freiburg, the region's biggest city
The River Kinzig passing through the Black Forest
The Mummelsee
Ortenberg Castle near Offenburg (now a youth hostel)
The Murg Valley Railway
The Black Forest is known for its native clockmakers
Traditional farmhouse of the Black Forest
Hausach
Schiltach
Paragliding above Baden-Baden
The former Graf-Eberhard-Bad (now: Palais Thermal) in Bad Wilbad

Black Forest facts for kids

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