Bavarian Forest

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Bavarian Forest Description

(Local Name: Bayerischer Wald) Land: Bavaria

Situation and characteristics

The Bavarian Forest is the name given to the great expanse of wooded hills in eastern Bavaria which is bounded on the south by the Danube valley between Regensburg and Passau. In the northeast it merges into the Bohemian Forest (in the former Czechoslovakia and Austria) and continues beyond the Furth depression into the Upper Palatinate Forest (Oberpfälzer Wald). Here, as elsewhere, the forests are suffering from the effects of pollution.

Landscape

Near the Danube lies the Vorderer Wald, a rolling upland region at altitudes of up to around 1,100m/3,600ft in which only the highest parts and the steeper slopes are

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Hobbies & Activities category: Natural area; Region with significant interests