The Black Forest, Forest Mountains in Baden-Württemberg (Southwest Germany)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Black Forest is a wooded mountain, "in this area is almost rectangular with a length of 200 km (120 miles) and breadth 60 km (37 miles). This place has an area of approximately 12,000 km 2 (4.600 sq mi). in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany.

This place is bordered by the Rhine River valley in the west and south. The highest peak is Feldberg with a height of 1493 meters (4898 feet) in southwestern Germany.

Geologically, the "Black Forest cover consist of sandstone above the core gneiss and granite. During the last ice age some of the Wurm glaciation, the Black Forest is covered by glaciers.


The rivers in the Black Forest including the Danube (which rises in the Black Forest), the River enz, River Kinzig, Murg River, Nagold River, Neckar River, Rench River, and the River Wiese. Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin (drained by the Rhine) and the Black Sea drainage basin (drained by the Danube).

And the city of Freiburg and Baden-Baden are popular tourist destinations on the west bank of the Black Forest, the cities of the forest include Bad Herrenalb, Baiersbronn, Freudenstadt, Furtwangen, Gengenbach, Gütenbach, Sasbachwalden, Schramberg, Staufen, Titisee-Neustadt, Hausach, and Wolfach .

Other popular destinations include the mountains in the Feldberg, Belchen, Kandel, and Schauinsland, at All Saints have Triberg Waterfall, is not the highest, but the most famous waterfalls in Germany; and Wutach River canyon.