List of nature parks in Germany

As of 2020[update] there were 103 nature parks, comprising about 27 percent of the total land area of Germany and are brought together under the Association of German Nature Parks.

[2] Parks that overlap into neighbouring countries are led by Europarc.

[4] As of 2020[update] the largest nature reserve in Germany, with 3,940 square kilometres (1,520 sq mi), is the Southern Black Forest Nature Park.

[5] The surface area of nature parks in Germany increased by 42% between 1998 and the end of 2019 (this corresponds to around 3.0 million hectares).

[6] The 16 national parks of Germany, under paragraph 24 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act, are not listed here.