Black Forest
The Black Forest is located in the southwest corner of Germany in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, which contains the namesake low, forested mountain range and warm, sunny lowlands at its foot.Photo: Wildbäder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Freiburg
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Freiburg im Breisgau is a major city in a secluded wine-rich corner of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, on the edge of the Black Forest.
Baden-Baden
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Baden-Baden is a spa town built on thermal springs at the edge of the Black Forest in Baden Württemberg, south west Germany.
Pforzheim
Pforzheim is known as the "Gateway to Black Forest" or "Goldstadt" for its jewellery and watch-making industries.Destinations
Villingen-Schwenningen
Villingen-Schwenningen is a twin town at the east side of the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg.Offenburg
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Offenburg is a city in the Black Forest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Rastatt
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Rastatt is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Lörrach
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Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders.
Calw
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Calw, the birth place of the writer Herman Hesse, is a little town in the Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Weil am Rhein
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Weil am Rhein is a German town and commune. It is on the east bank of the River Rhine, and extends to the tripoint of Switzerland, France, and Germany.
Kehl
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Kehl is a city on the River Rhine, in the Ortenau region of Germany west of the Black Forest and immediately east of Strasbourg.
Emmendingen
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Emmendingen is a city 17 km north of Freiburg, within the Black Forest region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Triberg Im Schwarzwald
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Triberg Im Schwarzwald is a small quiet German town located in Baden-Württemberg, in the heart of the Black Forest and is an enjoyable vacation spot.
Titisee-Neustadt
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Titisee-Neustadt is a spa town of 12,000 people on the north shore of Lake Titisee, in the Black Forest.
Baiersbronn
Baiersbronn is a municipality and a village in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.Bad Wildbad
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Bad Wildbad is a town in Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Bad Säckingen
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Bad Säckingen is a magnificent little city located in the very southern part of Germany.
Gengenbach
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Gengenbach is an historic town delightfully set in the Kinzigtal of the Black Forest and boasting romantic half timbered houses in narrow streets in the style of the Romantic Road.
Bonndorf
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Bonndorf im Schwarzwald, a 7,000 inhabitant town in the Black Forest in the very southwest of Germany, is in the district of Waldshut in the land of Baden-Württemberg.
Europa-Park
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Europa-Park is a theme park in Rust, Germany between Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Strasbourg.
Häusern
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Häusern is in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg.
Schiltach
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Schiltach is in German Black Forest region, located in the upper Kinzig valley located where the Schiltach tributary flows into the Kinzig river.
Schönwald im Schwarzwald
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Schönwald im Schwarzwald is a small village in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Black Forest
- Type: Mountain
- Description: mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany
- Categories: low mountain range and forest
- Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
48° northLongitude of centre
8.25° or 8° 15' eastElevation
998 metres (3,274 feet)GeoNames ID
2834688Wikidata ID
Q4204Black Forest Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Swartwoud
- Albanian: Schwarzwald
- Albanian: Shvarcvalldi
- Arabic: Kagurangan nga Itom
- Arabic: الغابة السوداء
- Armenian: Շվարցվալդ
- Asturian: Selva Prieta
- Azerbaijani: Qara Meşə
- Azerbaijani: Qara meşə
- Basque: Oihan Beltza
- Belarusian: Шварцвальд
- Bengali: কালো বন পর্বতশ্রেণী
- Bhojpuri: ब्लैक फॉरेस्ट
- Breton: Schwarzwald
- Bulgarian: Шварцвалд
- Catalan: Selva Negra
- Cebuano: Black Forest
- Chinese: 黑林山
- Chinese: 黑森林
- Croatian: Schwarzwald
- Czech: Schwarzwald
- Czech: Černý les
- Danish: Schwarzwald
- Dutch: Schwarzwald
- Dutch: Zwarte Woud
- Egyptian Arabic: الغابة السوداء
- English: Schwarzwald
- Esperanto: Nigra Arbaro
- Esperanto: Ŝvarcvaldo
- Estonian: Schwarzwald
- Finnish: Schwarzwald
- French: Forêt-Noire
- French: Schwarzwald
- Galician: Selva Negra
- Georgian: შვარცვალდი
- German: Schwarzwald
- Greek: Μέλανας Δρυμός
- Greek: Μέλας Δρυμός
- Hebrew: היער השחור
- Hebrew: היער השחור וסביבתו
- Hindi: ब्लैक फॉरेस्ट
- Hungarian: Fekete-erdő
- Icelandic: Svartiskógur
- Indonesian: Hutan Hitam
- Irish: An Fhoraois Dhubh
- Italian: Foresta Nera
- Japanese: シュヴァルツヴァルト
- Korean: 슈바르츠발트
- Ladin: Bosch Fosch
- Latin: Nigra silva
- Latin: Silva Nigra
- Latvian: Švarcvalde
- Limburgan: Zwarte Woud
- Lithuanian: Švarcvaldas
- Lombard: Foresta Negra
- Luxembourgish: Schwarzwald
- Macedonian: Шварцвалд
- Malayalam: ബ്ലാക്ക് ഫോറസ്റ്റ്
- Marathi: श्वार्त्सवाल्ड
- Norwegian: Schwarzwald
- Norwegian Bokmål: Schwarzwald
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Schwarzwald
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Sweartweald
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Sƿeartƿeald
- Panjabi: ਕਾਲਾ ਜੰਗਲ
- Persian: جنگل سیاه
- Polish: Schwarzwald
- Portuguese: Floresta Negra
- Romanian: Munții Pădurea Neagră
- Romanian: Pădurea Neagră
- Russian: Шварцвальд
- Scots: Black Forest
- Serbian: Шварцвалд
- Serbo-Croatian: Schwarzwald
- Slovak: Schwarzwald
- Slovenian: Schwarzwald
- Spanish: Schwarzwald
- Spanish: Selva Negra
- Swahili: Msitu mweusi
- Swedish: Schwarzwald
- Swiss German: Schwarzwald
- Tamil: கருங்காடு
- Tatar: Шварцвальд
- Thai: ป่าดำ
- Tosk Albanian: Schwarzwald
- Turkish: Kara Orman
- Turkmen: Schwarzwald
- Ukrainian: Шварцвальд
- Urdu: سیاہ جنگل
- Venetian: Foresta Nera
- Vietnamese: Rừng Đen
- Waray (Philippines): Kagurangan nga Itom
- Welsh: Fforest Ddu
- Western Frisian: Swarte Wâld
- Western Panjabi: کالا جنگل
- Wu Chinese: 黑林山
- Wu Chinese: 黑森林
- Yakut: Шварцвальт
- Yue Chinese: 黑林山
- Yue Chinese: 黑森林
- Abnoba
- Foret Noire
- Tlīlcuauhtlah
- Zwart Woud
- Şwarswald
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Black Forest. Photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0.