Baden- Baden UNTERER PLÄTTIG How to find us B 500 The Lynx trail is located directly along the Schwarzwaldhoch- straße (B 500). The trail starts near the Plättig car park.

Karlsruhe

Junction 51 Baden-B. Baden-Baden Else-Stolz- Junction 52 Gaggenau Heim Bühl National Park Center in Ruhestein Bühl 500 3 Junction 53 Plättig Forbach Achern Achern See- Stuttgart A5 National Park Center in Ruhestein Straßburg bach Ruhe- Otten- stein höfen Freuden- Forester‘s Schwarzwaldhochstraße 2 Junction 54 A81 stadt D-77889 Seebach Appenweier house Oberkirch Oppenau Phone +49(0)7449 92998-0 28 28a [email protected] Junction 30 Bad Peterstal Bernhardus Offenburg Horb www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de Griesbach Horb cot Freiburg/ Basel Singen Opening hours Arriving by public transport Info- Summer season Winter season portal Fairy tale lawn (May 1st to September 30th) (October 1st to April 30th) You can reach many attractions of the National Park as iInformation cot Tue to Sun & public holidays Tue to Sun & public holidays well as the National Park Center in Ruhestein using public Lynx Trail 10am to 6pm 10am to 5pm Access transport. For current information please visit Lynx Trail closed www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de January 1st, Good Friday, three-week closure directly after the autumn i 0 100m 200m 300m www.efa-bw.de holidays in Baden-Württemberg, December 24th, 25th and 31st

Publisher Nationalpark Schwarzwald . Schwarzwaldhochstraße 2 . 77889 Seebach The National Park Legende Wilderness at your doorstep Phone +49 7449 92998-0 . [email protected] . www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de

Production, maps and design Area: 10.062 hectares attraction (production) Pesch Graphic Design (design) Subareas: North 2.447 hectares, south 7.615 hectares information point The Lynx Trail Picture credits i (qui) q©qu-int.gmbh/Nationalpark Schwarzwald , (ko) Arne Kolb, (eh) Madeleine Ehinger Location: Between Offenburg, Freudenstadt and Baden-Baden car park in the Black Forest Nature Park Central/North bus stop Altitude: 470m - 1151m above sea level

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 small animals. Newly born moderate kittens remain in a hidden den i about 5 kilometres for the first few weeks before around 3 hours for a family venturing out to discover the 75 m, many short, sometimes steep climbs world.

Tips for your visit

If you wish to explore the Lynx Bühlerhöhe/Plättig bus stop – bus route 245 from Baden-Baden or Mummelsee trail you should be physically fit and wear sturdy footwear. In Car park next to the Schwarzwaldhochstraße (B500 order to protect the plants and animals, please keep to the path, road) at Hotel Plättig/Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe In the paw prints life. Children can trace the lynx’s tracks with all their senses – keep dogs on a lead, do not pick any plants or mushrooms and discovering how they prowl, pounce, peer and listen. Originally take your litter home with you. Please also be aware of the of the lynx the idea of the nature conservation society NABU Baden-Würt- dangers of being in a natural forest as you are undertaking the The National Park team wish you a pleasant outing. Immerse temberg, the trail was put into practice by the Centre/North walk at your own risk. This adventure trail is closed to walkers yourself into this wilder world, enjoy the break from your daily Every now and again, the occasional lynx is sighted roaming Black Forest Nature Park and the municipality of Baden-Baden. in snowy conditions. routine and the many little wonders beside the path. through the . They haven’t resettled here Since 2014 the adventure trail has belonged to the Black Forest yet, but if you would like to get to know this fleet-footed, feline National Park. predator a little better, you can follow their tracks on the Lynx Trail (Luchspfad). Plenty of information in the lynx hut at the Special tasks for children starting point along with hearing the wildcat’s call will put you in the mood for the trail. Passing by numerous interactive sta- Would you like to do a quiz while walking the tions, you will be walking through woodland in which the lynx trail? Then make sure you take the free quiz would feel at home. Children can experience how lynxes prowl, sheet with you from the information hut at the pounce, peer and listen. A rest area surrounded by tall beech starting point. If you stay alert while walking trees is located at the halfway point. you should be able to answer all the questions on this wildcat – and you can even win a great History Nature prize from the NABU nature conservation society. Simply send the quiz card with the solution word and your name and address The Lynx trail was opened in More than 200 years after being eradicated from the German to NABU. You can also do the quiz online at www.nabu-bw.de/ 2009 – the first of its kind in landscape, the lynx is making a comeback in a number of its luchsquiz. And you can also print out your own lynx diploma the whole of Germany. With a former habitats. The chances of encountering one in the Black from the Nature Park website (www.luchsdiplom.de). length of around five kilometres, Forest are nevertheless extremely rare – particularly as the wild- the narrow path leads through cat will do it best to avoid contact with humans. They are not When you were doing the walk, did you find a place where a woodland in which the lynx only quiet but also well camouflaged. An adult lynx will grow lynx would feel particularly at home? If you took a picture of it, would feel at home. Numerous to a height of 75 centimetres and measure up to 1.20 metres in you could send it to us to [email protected]. You can also interactive stations along the length. Unlike domestic or wildcats, they have a very short tail. see what other children have taken photos of on our website: way bring visitors closer to They can be easily distinguished by their tufted ears. Lynx prey www.schwarzwald-nationalpark.de. the animal and its way of in particular on young deer but also hunt hares, mice and other