The German-Luxembourg Nature Park (german: Deutsch-Luxemburgische Naturpark) is a cross-border
nature park, which was established on 17 April 1964 by
state treaty between the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
and the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
. It thus became the first cross-border nature park in Western Europe.
File:Irrel Wasserfälle 10+.jpg, Prüm river
File:Naturpark Südeifel (Eifel); Irreler Wasserfälle r.jpg,
File:Naturpark Südeifel (Eifel); Irreler Wasserfälle m.jpg,
File:Bizarre Felsenlandschaft - Teufelsschlucht (Bizarre Rocky Landscape - Devil's Gorge) - geo.hlipp.de - 14733.jpg, At Teufelsschlucht (Devils Gorge)
File:Einstieg in die Schlucht.JPG,
Literature
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Christian Humberg: ''Ein Riese namens Heimat – Streifzüge durch den Deutsch-Luxemburgischen Naturpark'' Eifelbildverlag, Daun, 2013,
See also
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List of nature parks in Germany
Nature parks in Germany (german: Naturparks) have been established under section 22, paragraph 4 of that country's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG). there were 103 nature parks, comprising about 27 percent of the total land area of Ger ...
External links
''Der Naturpark Südeifel'' official webpage of the German part
''Deutsch-Luxemburgischer Naturpark'' at deutsch-luxemburgischer-naturpark.info
''Naturpark Südeifel – Der Naturpark Südeifel… '' at naturparke.de
''Our Naturpark''(offizielle Website), at naturpark-our.lu
''Gewässerprojekt Ourtal''("Projekt Nat’OUR"), at projekt-natour.org
Geography of Luxembourg
Nature parks in Rhineland-Palatinate
Nature parks in Luxembourg
Eifel
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