Kellerwald-Edersee_National_Park

Kellerwald-Edersee National Park

Kellerwald-Edersee National Park

National Park in Northern Hesse, Germany

The Kellerwald-Edersee National Park (German: Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee), CDDA-No. 318077)[2] in the North Hessian county of Waldeck-Frankenberg is a national park, 57.38 km²[1] in area, that lies south of the Edersee lake in the northern part of the low mountain range of the Kellerwald in the German state of Hesse. Since 25 June 2011 the beech forested area of the national park has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, because of its testimony to the ecological history of the beech family and the forest dynamics of Europe since the Last Glacial Period.[3]

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National park sign near Hemfurth-Edersee

The national park administration is located in the east of the park at Bad Wildungen.

Literature

  • Norbert Panek (2006), Urwald-Ängste. Der beschwerliche Weg zum Nationalpark "Kellerwald". Idee, Konzept, Entstehungsgeschichte (in German), Korbach: Selbstverlag, ISBN 978-3-00-020673-3
  • Norbert Panek (2006), Nationalpark-Region Kellerwald-Edersee. Mit Kellerwaldsteig (in German), Niedenstein: Cognito, ISBN 978-3-932583-21-6
  • Manfred Delpho; Wolfgang Lübcke (2006), Im Reich der urigen Buchen. Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee (in German), Niedenstein: Cognitio, ISBN 978-3-932583-18-6
  • Hugo Hücker; Gerhard Kalden (2004), Naturpark und Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee. Faszination Natur (in German), Niedenstein: Cognitio, ISBN 3-932583-12-4

Edersee Game Park The Edersee game park is home to wildlife species from the local forests as well as species that used to inhabit our landscape, but no longer do so. Amidst the WildtierPark game park is the bird of prey station. There you can experience eagle owls, hawks, red kites, stone and imperial eagles close-up.

Film

  • Im Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee, documentary, 45 minutes, Germany, 2005, Buch und Regie: Ina Knobloch, Manfred Praxl und Hiltrud Jäschke, Produktion: MDR

Footnotes and references

  1. [1]
    National Park Area [5,738 ha (57.38 km²)]: Verordnung über den Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee, dated 17 December 2003 in the edition dated 20 December 2010, see § 1 – Erklärung zum Nationalpark, p. 2, (3), at nationalpark-kellerwald-edersee.de (pdf; 1.3 MB)
  2. [2]
    Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  3. [3]
    "Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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