It is part of the Southern Black Forest Nature Park and is largely surrounded by the landscape conservation area no.

A stratigraphic line profile based on borehole decections from 1976 showed that the western part of the moor consists of a basin up to 16 meters deep, lying on the moraine of the Feldberg glacier.

In its central area, directly beneath the Sphagnum peat layer, there is an underground lake with a diameter of around 300m and a depth of 3-4 meters.

In the southern part of the moor, a sports field was constructed in 1954, and between the 1950s and 1970s, the area was used as a landfill for household, commercial, and bulky waste, as well as soil.

Disagreements over the legitimacy of the sports field and the landfill led to a subsequent adjustment of the nature reserve’s boundaries.

The fact that monitoring has since shown consistent peat growth along the ditches is seen as the first success of the restoration efforts.

[15] According to the management plan relevant to the moor for the "Hochschwarzwald um Hinterzarten" special area of conservation (SAC), nutrient input is to be reduced by adopting extensive farming practices and eliminating the use of fertilizers on the meadows to the north.

Additionally, a buffer zone is to be created between the former landfill and the seepage water entering the western part of the moor from that direction, in order to further limit nutrient input.