National Park House
The information and education center of a national park in German-speaking countries is referred to as the National Park House.
description
National park houses exist in almost all national parks in Germany and Austria at visitor focal points or in entrance areas and provide clear information and support through multimedia or multivisionary display techniques about the natural history and characteristics of the respective large protected area or the landscape in which the respective national park is embedded.
National park houses also provide information about the hiking trails and the range of events and are the first point of contact for park visitors. There are usually other facilities in their vicinity, such as restaurants, game reserves, playgrounds, barefoot paths or, as in the example of the Hainich National Park , the treetop path . National park houses also offer space for changing art and special exhibitions related to nature topics and national parks. In terms of conception, type of sponsorship and size, however, national park houses can be very different. Newer national park houses are multimedia theme centers such as B. the Molln National Park Center , the Müritzeum and the “ House of the Mountains ” in Berchtesgaden . They are not intended to replace experiences in nature, but to arouse interest in deepening interesting facts outside. On the other hand, dimensions can be made tangible that would otherwise remain hidden to the average national park visitor, such as the depths of the Königsee and the summit regions of the Alpine mountains in the example of the Berchtesgaden National Park.
Just like natural history museums , national park houses are an important pillar for environmental education . The number of visitors confirms this fact. For the Königstuhl National Park Center, for example, 187,000 visitors are reported in the first year and 310,100 in the following year 2005.
Similar visitor facilities are also available for the following other types of large protected areas: biosphere reserve , nature park , geopark .
National park houses in Germany
- "Hans-Eisenmann-Haus" and "Haus zur Wildnis" in Ludwigsthal in the Bavarian Forest National Park
- House of the Mountains , National Park House of the Berchtesgaden National Park in Berchtesgaden
- Neuwerk National Park House in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park
- The Altenau and Sankt Andreasberg National Park Houses , as well as the Brockenhaus in the Harz National Park
- National Park Center King chair in the Jasmund National Park
- National Park Center near Vöhl at the Kellerwald National Park
- The Müritzeum in Waren at the Müritz National Park
- The national park houses Carolinensiel , Greetsiel , Land Wursten , Norderney , Wangerooge and the National Park House Museum Butjadingen Fedderwardersiel in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park
- “National Park Center” in Bad Schandau in the Saxon Switzerland National Park
- Husum National Park House in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park , as well as the Westerhever , Hallig Hooge and Hallig Langeneß National Park Houses (all Wadden Sea protection stations )
- National Park House Wattwurm near Meldorf in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park
- Hiddensee National Park House in the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park
" House of the Mountains ", since 2013 National Park House Berchtesgaden
The Brockenhaus in the Harz National Park
Butjadingen National Park House Museum in Fedderwardersiel
National Park House "Land Wursten" in Dorum Neufeld
National park houses in Austria
- National Park House “ wien- lobAU” in the Donau-Auen National Park
- National Park Pavilion in the Gesäuse National Park
- Bios adventure world in Mallnitz at the Hohe Tauern National Park
- National Park Center in Molln and National Park Visitor Center Ennstal in the Kalkalpen National Park
Molln National Park Center (Kalkalpen National Park)
literature
- Franz Maier: With all your senses. New visitor centers and adventure offers in Austria. In: National Park 2005. Issue 4, pp. 12–15.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visitor centers in the Kalkalpen National Park ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 3, 2011
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