Swabian-Franconian Forest

<h2 id="hill-ranges-and-hills">Hill ranges and hills</h2>
<p>The Swabian-Franconian Forest is divided clockwise (beginning roughly in the north) into the <a href="/facts/Waldenburg_Hills/6dsIoM9k">Waldenburg Hills</a>, <a href="/facts/Mainhardt_Forest/2m7Es5nb">Mainhardt Forest</a>, <a href="/facts/Limpurg_Hills/EnnCTAIW">Limpurg</a> and <a href="/facts/Ellwangen_Hills/yNdXTJBI">Ellwangen Hills</a>, <a href="/facts/Virngrund/3zbtQFWW">Virngrund</a>, <a href="/facts/Murrhardt_Forest/leMw74WV">Murrhardt Forest</a>, <a href="/facts/L%C3%B6wenstein_Hills/HydwS3BS">Löwenstein Hills</a>, <a href="/facts/Heilbronn_Hills/VHktYJfN">Heilbronn Hills</a> and Sulm Plateau; in addition the valley of Weinsberger Tal, which lies between the last two uplands, is part of the region
</p><p>The highest point of the Swabian-Franconian Forest is the <a href="/facts/Hohe_Brach/Elw2rEch">Hohe Brach</a> (586.4 m). Other high hills include the <a href="/facts/Hagberg_(Welzheim_Forest)/DhTkdBz5">Hagberg</a> (585.2 m), <a href="/facts/Hornberg_(Virngrund)/TCchBa64">Hornberg</a> (580.0 m), Hohenstein (572 m), Hohenberg (568.9 m), Hohentannen (565.4 m), <a href="/facts/Altenberg_(Limpurg_Hills)/krxJCIg7">Altenberg</a> (564.7 m), <a href="/facts/Stocksberg_(hill)/4pnc3Jnw">Stocksberg</a> (538.9 m), Flinsberg (534.8 m), <a href="/facts/Juxkopf/nxW6Tnkb">Juxkopf</a> (533.1 m) and <a href="/facts/Steinknickle/u6k7eG9z">Steinknickle</a> (524.9 m).
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<h2 id="protections">Protections</h2>
<p>Naturpark Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald, or Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park in English, is a nature park and protected area within the Swabian-Franconian Forest. The nature park covers an area of 1,270 km², including most of the Swabian-Franconian Forest, but also large areas of adjacent <a href="/facts/Cultural_landscape/RmMBfLVB">cultural landscapes</a> and historical monuments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

Naturpark Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald

<h2 id="literature">Literature</h2>
<ul><li>Paul Strähle (2006), <i>Naturpark Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald : revised by Theo Müller</i> (in German) (4th, revised and expanded ed.), Stuttgart: Theiss, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-8062-2033-6</li>
<li>LUBW Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Württemberg (publ.): <a href="http://www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/34183/"><i>Naturführer Schwäbischer Wald.</i></a> (Reihe <i>Naturschutz-Spectrum. Gebiete</i>, Vol. 29). <i>verlag regionalkultur</i>, Ubstadt-Weiher, 2007, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-89735-507-1.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<ul><li><a href="http://www.fachdokumente.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/92374/brief108.pdf">Natural region fact file Schwäbisch-Fränkische Waldberge (108)</a> (N.B. the small Baden-Württemberg element of the Central Franconian Basin (113) and the Frankenhöhe (114) is integrated here.) – <a href="/facts/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_State_Department_for_the_Environment,_Survey_and_Nature_Conservation/0mdEoptd">LUBW</a> (pdf, 12.5 MB)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=10801">Landscape fact file for the Swabian-Franconian Forest</a> by the <a href="/facts/Bundesamt_f%C3%BCr_Naturschutz/FXICCJxt">Bundesamt für Naturschutz</a>, at bfn.de</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080413233813/http://rips-uis.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/rips/wms_viewer/lubw_wms/map.php">Detailed LUBW natural regional map</a> at Basis by google.maps (Open "Natur und Landschaft")</li>
<li><a href="http://www.naturpark-sfw.de/">Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park</a> (official homepage)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation <a href="https://www.bfn.de/infothek/karten.html" target="_blank">https://www.bfn.de/infothek/karten.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Naturpark Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald" [Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park] (in German). Retrieved 11 September 2019. <a href="https://www.naturpark-sfw.de" target="_blank">https://www.naturpark-sfw.de</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Swabian-Franconian Forest open-in-new

Swabian-Franconian Forest