Black Forest

Map of the Black Forest

The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) is a world famous forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.^[1]

Important towns are (from north to south): Pforzheim, Calw, Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Freudenstadt, Horb, Villingen-Schwenningen, Titisee-Neustadt and Waldshut-Tiengen. The highest mountain is the Feldberg (1492m).

The Black Forest is quite popular for hiking, skiing and Nordic walking. In Triberg, at the lake Titisee and in other places you can buy the famous cuckoo clocks. A good way to get known to the Black Forest is to travel on the Deutsche Uhrenstraße, a "National Scenic Byway."

Black Forest Media

The Black Forest on the Tabula Peutingeriana: a mountain chain with fantastically formed trees as a symbol of an unsettled and virtually inaccessible terrain
Black Forest farmhouse, 1898
An unmarried Black Forest woman wearing a red Bollenhut, 1898
Woods and pastures of the High Black Forest near Breitnau
The Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Black Forest, SE of Freiburg
Slopes of the Northern Black Forest to the Upper Rhine Plain (Northern Black Forest Valleys)
Grassland economy in side valleys of the Kinzig, Central Black Forest
The Belchen in the Southern Black Forest with its bare dome, seen from Münstertal
The River Schiltach in Schiltach
The Schluchsee, north of St. Blasien