Tierisch Wild - Urlaub am Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald

The Bavarian Forest and Sumava/Bohemian Forest National Parks

Bavarian Forest National Park
The National Park concept was first developed in North America, where the famous Yellowstone National Park was founded in 1872. The objective is to preserve as many original landscapes as possible around the world as national natural heritage for future generations. Nearly 100 years later, in 1970, the Bavarian Forest was designated as the first National Park in Germany. In 1997 it was extended by a further 11,000 hectares and, with a total of 24,000 hectares, became the largest German forested national park.

Sumava National Park
The events of 1989 also benefitted nature. The iron curtain to the former Czechoslovakia fell; the barriers, the landscape and the people opened up. In 1991, the new Czechoslovak government also made the most valuable parts of the Sumava area in Bohemia, which had been a protected area since the 1960s, into a national park. Covering more than 69,000 hectares, it became the largest national park in the Czech Republic.