The Wildsee is a small lake within an area of bog between Bad Wildbad and Gernsbach, high in the Northern Black Forest mountain range in southwestern Germany.

The Wildsee is located at a height of 909 m above sea level (NN) on a plateau between Bad Wildbad, Gernsbach and Forbach.

At the end of the last ice age (about 10,000 years ago), impervious, bunter sandstone beds and high levels of precipitation caused the formation of the boggy terrain in this area.

As a result of incomplete decomposition, a peat layer, up to eight metres thick, was formed in the Wildsee Bog (Wildseemoor).

[2] The moorland landscape is crossed by a board walk built by the Black Forest Club, which passes directly over the lake.