List of biosphere reserves in Germany

Biosphere reserves in Germany

The list of biosphere reserves in Germany lists the 16 from the UNESCO -recognized biosphere reserves in Germany on addition that was not recognized biosphere reserve Karst Landscape South Harz and the abandoned Biosphere Reserve Bavarian Forest .

Biosphere reserves recognized by UNESCO

Biosphere reserve	map	state	Total size [ha]	Core zone [ha]	Maintenance area [ha]	Development zone [ha]	UNESCO recognition	Coordinates
Berchtesgadener Land		Bavaria	84,000	13,896	9537	60,551	1990	47 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ N, 13 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E
Bliesgau		Saarland	36,152	1103	7051	27,998	2009	49 ° 14 ′ 15 "N, 7 ° 15 ′ 35" E
Elbe River Landscape (sections Mittelelbe , Steckby-Lödderitzer Forest , Elbe River Landscape Brandenburg , Elbe River Landscape Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony Elbe Valley )		Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein	275,893	3570	55,523	216,800	1979, 1997	52 ° 33 ′ 20 ″ N, 11 ° 33 ′ 10 ″ E
Hamburg Wadden Sea		Hamburg	11,700	10,530	1170	-	1992	53 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N, 8 ° 25 ′ 29 ″ E
Lower Saxony Wadden Sea		Lower Saxony	240,000	130,000	108,000	2000	1992	53 ° 46 ′ 17 "N, 7 ° 37 ′ 46" E
Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape		Saxony	30.102	1124	12,015	16,963	1996	51 ° 19 ′ 29 ″ N, 14 ° 32 ′ 22 ″ E
Palatinate Forest-Northern Vosges		Rhineland-Palatinate	177,842	3939	49,261	124,642	1992	49 ° 13 ′ 41 "N, 7 ° 42 ′ 54" E
Rhön		Bavaria, Hesse, Thuringia	243,323	7438	53,897	181.988	1991	50 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N, 10 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E
Schaalsee		Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	30,900	1916	8930	20,054	2000	53 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ N, 10 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and Halligen		Schleswig-Holstein	443.100	157,000	284,000	2100	1990	54 ° 27 '23 "N, 8 ° 38' 47" E
Schorfheide-Chorin		Brandenburg	129,160	3901	24,440	100,819	1990	53 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N, 13 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E
Swabian Alb		Baden-Württemberg	85.269	2645	35,410	47.214	2009	48 ° 26 ′ 5 "N, 9 ° 28 ′ 44" E
Black Forest		Baden-Württemberg	63,236	1905	18,523	42,808	2017	47 ° 47 ′ 21 ″ N, 7 ° 57 ′ 27 ″ E
Spreewald		Brandenburg	47,509	974	9334	37.201	1991	51 ° 51 ′ 35 "N, 14 ° 3 ′ 32" E
Southeast Ruegen		Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	22,900	349	3204	19,347	1991	54 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N, 13 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E
Thuringian Forest		Thuringia	17,081	562	1949	14,570	1979	50 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ N, 10 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E

Without UNESCO recognition

Biosphere reserve	map	state	Total size [ha]	Core zone [ha]	Maintenance area [ha]	Development zone [ha]	UNESCO recognition	Coordinates
Karst landscape of the southern Harz		Saxony-Anhalt	30,034	918	9760	19,356	Pending	51 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N, 11 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E

Former biosphere reserve

Biosphere reserve	map	state	Total size [ha]	Core zone [ha]	Maintenance area [ha]	Development zone [ha]	UNESCO recognition	Coordinates
Bavarian forest		Bavaria					1981 to 2007	48 ° 58 '42 "N, 13 ° 23' 22" E

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Web links

Commons : Biosphere Reserves in Germany  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biosphere reserves in Germany . In: Website of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
• UNESCO biosphere reserves in Germany . In: Website of the German UNESCO Commission
• Biosphere reserves in Germany . In: Website of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (PDF; as of June 2017)
• Map of the German biosphere reserves with zoning . In: Website of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (PDF; as of February 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Astrid Eichhorn, Guido Puhlmann: 20 years of recognition of the Steckby-Lödderitzer Forest as a UNESCO biosphere reserve - a milestone in the preservation of the Elbe river landscape  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   (PDF file, 911 kB). Retrieved June 10, 2014.
2. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy: Black Forest Biosphere Area - Application for recognition as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (German), July 29, 2016, p. 49 ( PDF ; 24 MB).
3. ↑ Unesco recognizes the Black Forest area as a biosphere reserve