#Black forest village series#

The effects of the storm are demonstrated by the Lothar Path, a forest educational and adventure trail at the nature centre in Ruhestein on a highland timber forest of about 10 hectares that was destroyed by a hurricane. As had happened following the 1990 storms, large quantities of fallen logs were kept in provisional wet-storage areas for years. On 26 December 1999, Cyclone Lothar raged across the Black Forest and caused even greater damage, especially to the spruce monocultures.

#Black forest village series#

In 1990, extensive damage to the forest was caused by a series of windstorms. In the middle of the 19th century, the Black Forest was almost completely deforested by intensive forestry and was subsequently replanted, mostly with spruce monocultures. At the higher elevations spruce also grew. Originally, the Black Forest was a mixed forest of deciduous trees and firs. Examples include the multiple baroque fieldworks of Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden or individual defensive positions such as the Alexanderschanze (Alexander's Redoubt), the Röschenschanze and the Schwedenschanze ( Swedish Redoubt). Remnants of military fortifications dating from the 17th and 18th centuries can be found in the Black Forest, especially on the mountain passes. Further peasant unrest, in the shape of the saltpetre uprisings, took place over the next two centuries in Hotzenwald. Some of the uprisings (including the Bundschuh movement) that preceded the 16th century German Peasants' War, originated in the Black Forest. These include, for example, Rötenbach, which was first mentioned in 819. Soon afterwards, increasingly higher areas and adjacent forests were colonized, so that by the end of the 10th century, the first settlements could be found in the red (bunter) sandstone region. They settled and first colonized the valleys, crossing the old settlement boundary, the so-called 'red sandstone border', for example, from the region of Baar. the baths in Badenweiler, and mines near Badenweiler and Sulzburg) and the construction of the Roman road of Kinzigtalstraße, the colonization of the Black Forest was not carried out by the Romans but by the Alemanni. With the exception of Roman settlements on the perimeter (e.g.

They, in turn, were part of the Germanic tribe of Suebi, who subsequently gave their name to the historic state of Swabia. The Black Forest probably represented the border area of the Marcomanni ('border people') who were settled east of the Roman limes. In Roman times ( Late antiquity), it was given the name Silva Marciana ('Marcynian Forest', from the Germanic word marka = 'border'). In ancient times, the Black Forest was known as Abnoba mons, after the Celtic deity, Abnoba. History 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 There are several ruined military fortifications dating back to the 17th century.

Historically, the area was known for forestry and the mining of ore deposits, but tourism has now become the primary industry, accounting for around 300,000 jobs. Roughly oblong in shape, with a length of 160 kilometres (100 miles) and breadth of up to 50 km (30 mi), it has an area of about 6,009 km 2 (2,320 sq mi). Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres (4,898 ft) above sea level. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers. The Black Forest ( German: Schwarzwald ⓘ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland.