Altmühl Valley Nature Park
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The Altmühl Valley Nature Park () is a
nature park A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscapes are pres ...
, 2,962 km² in area, in the south German state of
Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
. The area of the park is almost coextensive with that of the
natural region A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate. From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and ...
major unit of the Southern
Franconian Jura The Franconian Jura ( , , or ) is an upland in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to and it has an area of some 7053.8 km2. Emil Mey ...
(''Südliche Frankenalb''). It lies immediately north of the city of
Ingolstadt Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ) is an Independent city#Germany, independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan ...
on the River Danube and is divided into a southern and northern Altmühl Valley.


Description

The nature park was established on 25 July 1969 in Pappenheim by society formed for the purpose, the ''Naturpark Altmühltal (Südliche Frankenalb)'' ("Altmühl Valley Nature Park (Southern Franconian Jura)"). It is the fourth largest nature park in Germany after the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park, Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park and
Southern Black Forest Nature Park The Southern Black Forest Nature Park () is located in Baden-Württemberg in Germany and covers an area of . As of 2018, it is Germany's largest nature park. History The Southern Black Forest Nature Park was established on February 1, 1999. The ...
. File:Arnsberger Leite 01.jpg, Arnsberger Leite File:Altmühltal - Bavaria, Germany - 16 July 2015.jpg, Burgstein File:2016 Zwölf Apostel 09.jpg, Zwölf Apostel File:2013 Weltenburg 18.jpg, Weltenburger Enge File:Weltenburger Enge (Nordufer).JPG,
Danube The Danube ( ; see also #Names and etymology, other names) is the List of rivers of Europe#Longest rivers, second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest sou ...
at Weltenburger Enge File:Wasserzell vom Frauenberg (1).jpg, Villages and valleys File:Arzberg 2-2.jpg, Arzberg File:2016 Heinrichsgraben 10.jpg, Sinter terraces File:Klausenhöhle.JPG, Cave-systems File:Herbst im Harburger Karab (FFH-Gebiet) 02.jpg, Autumn in Harburger Karab forest File:Galgenberg 05.jpg, Autumn at Galgenberg File:Figurenfeld bei Eichstätt.jpg, Figurenfeld sculpture park File:Naturpark_Altmuehltal.jpg, Nature park sign


See also

*
List of nature parks in Germany Nature parks in Germany () 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 Germany and are broug ...


References

Area of the nature park:
– 2962 km²
''Liste der Naturparke''
(Association of German Nature Parks), retrieved 20 August 2014, at naturparke.de
according to other sources:
– 2967 km²
''Der Naturpark Altmühltal''
retrieved 12 October 2016, at naturpark-altmuehltal.de (pdf; 67.16 KB)
Naturpark Altmühltal
retrieved 24 April 2014, at openstreetmap.org
''Der Naturpark Altmühltal''
retrieved 12 October 2016, at naturpark-altmuehltal.de (pdf; 67.16 KB)


Literature

* ''Das Tal der Uraltmühl'', 144 Seiten, Tümmels, Nuremberg, * ''Das Urdonautal der Altmühl'', 132 Seiten, Tümmels, Nuremberg,


External links


Altmühl Valley Nature Park
at naturpark-altmuehltal.de {{Authority control Nature parks in Bavaria Eichstätt (district) Kelheim (district) Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Franconia