Bavarian Forest Nature Park

The Bavarian Forest Nature Park (German: Naturpark Bayerischer Wald) covers an area north of the Danube as far as the border ridge with the Czech Republic.

In the southeast the area of the nature park borders on the Upper Austrian district of Mühlviertel.

The territory of the Bavarian Forest Nature Park begins at the Danube at a height of about 320-metres above sea level.

The weather resistant quartz rock protrudes above the surrounding gneisses by several metres and offers a habitat for many warmth-loving animal and plant species.

Numerous animal and plant species which have become very rare or are threatened with extinction in Bavaria and Germany as a whole, have found their last refuge areas in this region.