#5 - Naturpark Fichtelgebirge
Bayern, GermanyThe Fichtelgebirge Nature Park lies like a large horseshoe in northeast Bavaria. With peaks like the Schneeberg and Ochsenkopf, the highest peaks in Franconia, it attracts countless visitors every year. The 4 large rivers Main, Eger, Naab and Saale have their source here. The park was established in 1971. The Fichtelgebirge is divided into two very different natural areas - the rough, difficult to settle Hohe Fichtelgebirge with its Atlantic climate and the more protected, human-shaped Inner Fichtelgebirge with a continental climate. These very different habitats are home to a multitude of different animals and plants and organisms displaced by the Ice Age were able to survive here as well. There are eight information points in the park: the Grassemann open-air museum, the Torhaus Schloss Leupoldsdorf information point, the Zell information point in the Kleinlosnitz Farm Museum in Upper Franconia, the Weißenstadt information barn, the Mehlmeisel forest house with its wildlife park, the Häuselloh open-air mine, the "Kleiner Johannes" old mine and the information point and granite labyrinth Kirchenlamitz.
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