Black Forest

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The Black Forest (in German Schwarzwald ) is a mountainous solid mass of the south-west of the Germany, in the Land of the Bade-Wurtemberg. It is separated by the Rhenish ditch from the solid mass of the the Vosges of which it regains the triangular shape and the type of relief, higher in the south. More the high summit is the Feldberg, which culminates with 1493 meters. The notable tops are the Feldberg (1493 m), the Herzogenhorn (1415 m), the Belchen (1414 m), the Schauinsland (1284 m), the Kandel (1242 m), the Hinterwaldkopf (1198 m), the Hornisgrinde (1164 m), more the high summit of the north of the Black Forest, and the Schliffkopf (1055 m).

Well irrigated area, the Black Forest east crossed in its central part/is (around Donaueschingen and Villingen) by the watershed between the Atlantique and the Black Sea. The the Rhine circumvents the solid mass by the south then the west, receiving for affluents Kinzig, Murg and, with Mannheim only, the Neckar, which crosses the solid mass in direction of north with its affluents, Enz and Nagold. The the Danube results from the confluence of the Breg and of the Brigach and runs out towards the east. The Black Forest borders the plate of the Baar in south-east.

The economy concentrates especially in the valleys. The agricultural life associates the breeding and the culture of cereals. Industry works in particular the wood of the many fir trees. Industries textile and the clock industry gradually yield their place to tourism. The thermal springs with the healing properties were already known Romans. The principal cities of Black Forest are Freiburg-in-Brisgau, Offenburg, Lörrach, Baden-Baden, Villingen-Schwenningen, Furtwangen and Freudenstadt.

It is the point of passage of many footpaths and in particular the European Sentier of great excursion. Westweg, (literally Way of the west ) led the hikers of Pforzheim to Basel on 285 kilometers, while passing by the Schliffkopf (horizontal dark red rhombus on white right-angled bottom) and forms a section of the E1 course which goes from Sweden to l´Italie.

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  • Camera weather in Schliffkopf/Black
  • Camera of Unterstmatt /For and Black Forest
  • Images and history of Black Forest
  • Black Forest: Gallery D `Images

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