Regional nature park Gantrisch

Regional nature park Gantrisch
Nüneneflue and Gantrisch
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '35.3 "  N , 7 ° 22' 27.4"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred ninety-five thousand and eighty-six  /  one hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred forty-five
Location:	Bern , Switzerland
Next city:	Schwarzenburg BE
Surface:	414 km²
Founding:	2012
Address:	https://www.gantrisch.ch
Gantrisch - namesake of the nature park
Panorama from the Gantrisch
Gantrisch chain
Gantrischseeli

The Gantrisch Regional Nature Park is one of 17 parks of national importance in Switzerland. Of its 20 park communities, 19 are in the canton of Bern and one in the canton of Friborg . The Gantrisch nature park covers an area of ​​414 km² at an altitude between 510 m ( Bern-Belp airport ) and 2239 m (Schafberg) and includes the Schwarzsee tourist region .

Location and geography

The Gantrisch Nature Park lies between the three Swiss cities of Bern , Thun and Freiburg and is traversed by Gürbe , Schwarzwasser and Sense . The park area includes the Längenberg, a lateral moraine of the Aare glacier , as well as the Belpberg , which also consists partly of moraine material from the Aare glacier. In the south, the Gantrisch nature park is bounded by the Gantrisch chain, which gives the nature park its name and contains the source area of ​​the Gürbe. In the southwest of the nature park there is the Schwarzsee and the primeval landscape of Brecca .

20 communities form the Gantrisch Nature Park (as of 2020): Belp , Burgistein , Forst-Längenbühl , Gerzensee , Guggisberg , Gurzelen , Kaufdorf , Kirchdorf , Niedermuhlern , Oberbalm , Plaffeien , Riggisberg , Rüeggisberg , Rümligen , Rüschegg , Schwarzenburg , Thurnen , Toffen , Wald , Wattenwil .

Landscapes of national importance

In accordance with Article 5 of the Federal Act on Nature Conservation and Heritage Protection, Switzerland keeps a federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance . Two of these areas are in the Gantrisch Nature Park:

• No. 1320, name: Schwarzenburgerland with Sense and Schwarzwasser gorges
• No. 1514, name: Brecca throat

Attractions

Viewpoints

• Guggershörnli
• Monument in honor of Rudolf von Tavels

Museums

• Abegg Foundation
• Vreneli Museum

Historic buildings and facilities

• Schwarzenburg Castle
• Grasburg
• Rüeggisberg Abbey
• Gerzensee Castle
• Old Gerzensee Castle
• Gerzensee New Castle

Waters

• Gerzensee
• Dittligsee
• Schwarzsee

Mountain peaks

• Gantric
• Kaiseregg

literature

• Martin Arnold, Roland Gerth: The nature parks in Switzerland. AT Baden and Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-03800-563-6 .

Web links

Commons : Gantrisch Nature Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gantrisch Nature Park - Official website of the Gantrisch Nature Park.

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ Gantrisch Nature Park
2. ↑ Gantrisch Nature Park - park perimeter. Förderverein Region Gantrisch FRG, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Gantrisch Nature Park - key figures for the Gantrisch Nature Park. Förderverein Region Gantrisch FRG, archived from the original on January 8, 2015 ; accessed on May 15, 2015 .