Fragrance Forest (Bad Kissingen)
The Fragrance Forest Bad Kissingen is the only fragrance forest in Germany. The area northwest of the spa town of Bad Kissingen is about one hectare in size, was planted from 2001 and is accessible to the public via an educational trail .
location
The scented forest is located behind the Seehof sanatorium, at the north-western exit of the city of Bad Kissingen and the Garitz district , a little above the federal road 286 in the direction of Oberthulba and the A 7 motorway
description
The one-hectare scented forest with a total of around 4,000 forest trees and shrubs was created on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the spa town of Bad Kissingen in 2001 by Karl-Heinz Knörr , who was head of the State Forestry Office in Bad Kissingen until the official dissolution. He planted around 50 different types of fragrant forest trees and bushes on a fallow field.
In the area prepared for visitors, you can not only look at the trees in the forest, but also experience them with your sense of smell . The walker can smell the scents of flowers, leaves and needles, of bark and resin . Depending on the season, he perceives, for example, the smells of lilac and olive willow , of barberry and manna ash , of Bodnant snowball and broom , of spice bushes or even of the Japanese cake tree (katsura tree), which only smells its typical gingerbread in autumn Leaf fall unfolded. Witch hazel and cinnamon-raspberry start in February / March.
A display board at the entrance to the Bad Kissingen Scented Forest shows all the tree and shrub species present with a detailed map. Pin boards on the individual trees or bushes explain the respective plant to the visitor. A circular route is barrier-free . The fragrance forest is not cordoned off and can be visited free of charge at any time.
literature
- Bavarian Yearbook 2012, page 2, KG Sauer Verlag GmbH & Co.KG
- Waldlust , magazine of the Bavarian State Forests, issue 2 / June 2007, page 24
- Guest Journal Bad Kissingen , August 2012, page 6
Web links
- Siegfried Farkas: Where the forest smells of gingerbread , in: Main-Post from May 4, 2007 ( online )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bad Kissingen is great. The only scented forest in Germany is located in Bad Kissingen . Post on: Primatononline.de from June 5, 2012 ( archive.org ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ The scent forest at the Seehof , in: Main-Post from June 14, 2001 ( online )
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 3.4 ″ N , 10 ° 2 ′ 42 ″ E