Lothar Trail Is Located Directly Along the Schwarzwaldhoch- Straße (B 500)
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Baden-Baden (loh) (loh) How to find us B 500 The Lothar trail is located directly along the Schwarzwaldhoch- straße (B 500). The trail starts from the Lothar trail car park. Karlsruhe Junction 51 Children‘s i Baden-B. Baden-Baden high seat Junction 52 Gaggenau Bühl Bühl 500 National Park Center in Ruhestein Rock sun Uprooted 3 Junction 53 Forbach lounger tree Achern Achern See- Stuttgart A5 National Park Center in Ruhestein Straßburg bach Ruhe- Otten- höfen stein Viewing Schwarzwaldhochstraße 2 Junction 54 A81 platform D-77889 Seebach Appenweier Baiersbronn Oberkirch Oppenau Phone +49(0)7449 92998-0 28 Trunk slices 28a [email protected] Junction 30 Bad Peterstal Freudenstadt Offenburg Horb www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de Griesbach Horb Freiburg/ Basel Singen Opening hours Freudenstadt Summer season Winter season Arriving by public transport (May 1st to September 30th) (October 1st to April 30th) You can reach many attractions of the National Park as Tue to Sun & public holidays Tue to Sun & public holidays well as the National Park Center in Ruhestein using public 10am to 6pm 10am to 5pm 0 50m 100m transport. For current information please visit closed www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de Total distance: 900 metres January 1st, Good Friday, three-week closure directly after the autumn www.efa-bw.de holidays in Baden-Württemberg, December 24th, 25th and 31st Publisher Nationalpark Schwarzwald . Schwarzwaldhochstraße 2 . 77889 Seebach The Black Forest National Park Lothar trail NEW WILDERNESS Phone +49 7449 92998-0 . [email protected] . www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de Production, maps and design Area: 10.062 hectares start and information point car park (production) i Pesch Graphic Design (design) Subareas: North 2.447 hectares, south 7.615 hectares Lothar Trail Picture credits attraction bus stop (qui) q©qu-int.gmbh/Nationalpark Schwarzwald , (ko) Arne Kolb, (eh) Madeleine Ehinger Location: Between Offenburg, Freudenstadt and Baden-Baden in the Black Forest Nature Park Central/North rest area Altitude: 470m - 1151m above sea level hiking trail The Black Forest National Park belongs to the „National Natural Foundation: January 1st 2014 Landscapes“, the umbrella label of the German national parks, biosphere reserves and nature parks supported by EUROPARC Germany eV: www.europarc-deutschland.de For children – Special tasks while walking Tips for your visit You have to be very lucky to see some species in a wild forest – Walking the Lothar Trail will take others, such as the robin redbreast, are much easier to see. Keep around 30 minutes; sturdy foot- a close eye on the tops of young spruce trees on the Lothar Trial, wear and weatherproof clothing are it’s here that robins particularly like to perch. They take their recommended as they are throughout name, of course, from their orange-red breast. The robin the National Park. If wished, the measures some 14 centimetres from its beak to the tip of its walk can be extended by taking a tail, a little bigger than your hand. They weigh up to 20 grams detour along the Panoramaweg path. which is only the same as a tablespoon of flour. In summer, they Walking from the Lothar Trail to eat mainly insects, spiders, woodlouse and worms; in winter Schliffkopf and then on to Ruhestein to leave it in its post-storm state and let nature have full control. berries and seeds. Robins are great singers– they are known to is also very appealing. Watching the A growing wilderness Year for year, visitors to the Lothar Trail can therefore experi- have more than 250 different tone sequences, and they can even sunset from the path’ s observation ence how the area is becoming increasingly wilder. imitate other birds. But you are most likely to hear their ‘ticking’ platform provides a particularly pic- Welcome to the Lothar Trail (Lotharpfad) – the shortest and call with lots of ‘ticks’ one after the other; it means they are turesque view and makes an excellent most popular circular path in the Black Forest National Park. Nature feeling disturbed. photograph. Having a length of just under one kilometre, the path weaves its way through an area of around ten hectares where nature has A storm creates space for new life – such as plants that need a The National Park team kindly ask you to follow these rules in been left to its own devices since Storm Lothar struck in 1999. lot of light and would otherwise have no chance of survival in a order to protect the plants and animals: keep to the paths, keep Insects and fungi have developed new habitats in the dead wood dense forest. Or species that need dead wood for their habitats dogs on a lead, do not pick any plants or mushrooms and take while young trees now grow wild. After negotiating boardwalks, – such as ants, beetles, insects and common lizards. These are your litter home with you. steps and ladders you will reach an observation platform from followed in turn by other species such as the very rare wrynecks where the entire Northern Black Forest will be at your feet. On from the woodpecker family that feed almost entirely on ants. Enjoy your time in a growing wilderness, be enchanted by a good day, the view stretches to the Vosges and sometimes even Robins and wrens have also settled quickly in the Lothar Trail the little wonders close to the path and the great views in the as far as the Alps. area, while thrushes have brought new seeds with them, parti- Were you able to hear a robin on your walk? Or even see one? distance. cularly mountain ash. In the moist hollows created by uprooted Or find something that a robin would find tasty? History trees, birch trees now grow, something that rarely occurred Maybe you would like to tell us about it or send a before. Regular visits to this adventure trail will unveil new dis- photo to [email protected]. You can see what The foundation for this path was laid down by Storm Lothar, coveries every time –thus allowing you to share in the wonders other children have photographed and written about hence the path’s name. On 26 December 1999, the strongest of a growing wilderness. on our website: www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de easy, but not barrier-free i ever storm measured in the Black Forest swept across Area development 2002 to 2015 900 metres Central Europe. Wind speeds of up to 200 kilometres around half an hour per hour dramatically changed the forest landscape as 2002 2006 2009 2015 the storm passed. It uprooted millions of trees and left level path but with a number of steps to negotiate behind a wilderness-like chaos covering an area equi- valent to almost 50,000 football pitches. Instead of clearing the area between Plonkopf and Sandkopf, Lotharpfad bus stop – served by bus route 12 (Mon-Sat) the authorities at the time decided and F2 (Sun & public holidays) from Freudenstadt (ebe) (ebe) (ebe) (ebe) Lotharpfad car park on the B500 road between Schliffkopf and Freudenstadt.