German component parts include selected forest areas of four National Parks, Hainich in Thuringia, Kellerwald-Edersee in Hesse, Jasmund and Müritz in Mecklenburg-Western …

The ancient beech forest that has been preserved in the Serrahn section, provides a glimpse into the past, what the primeval beech forests of Germany once looked like. Lowland beech forests …

An ancient beech forest still exists in the extensive woodland and lake landscape of the Serrahn component site of the Müritz National Park, which gives an idea as to how primeval beech …

Jasmund represents the beech forests of the lowland. The approximately 3,000-hectare protected area is home to the largest contiguous beech forest on the Baltic coast, covering some 2,100 …

In Germany they are found in Schleswig-Holstein, in Lower Saxony, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and in Brandenburg (World Heritage areas Serrahn, Jasmund and Grumsin).

Forest history research shows that Grumsin Forest has been a mostly deciduous forest for several hundred years. In the former German Democratic Republic, the area was a government …

The refuge areas in this region were of the utmost importance for the European postglacial expansion process of the beech. Within this area, the beech survived the last ice age and …

Beech forests are Europe’s natural wilderness. The World Heritage Site comprises the few remaining primeval beech forests and centuries-old European beech forest areas unaltered by …

The entire World Heritage Site comprises the few remaining European primeval beech forests and centuries-old European beech forest areas, which are almost unaltered by humans.

The ancient and primeval beech forests of our World Heritage Site are windows in time to a world without human use – the natural state of nature. Nearly all of Europe would look like this, if …