Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park

The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park is a conservation area shaped by its incredibly unspoilt sweeping countryside, endless beech and fir forests, and characteristic rock formations.

Welcome to Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park

The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park is one of the largest of its kind in Germany. It was founded in 1980 and includes landscape and nature conservation areas in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The protected area stretches from the heights of the Hunsrück over the plateaus of the Mosel-Saar-Gau to the undulating Saar-Nahe-Bergland. The natural and cultural landscape is multifaceted, with extensive woodlands, species-rich meadows, hedges and meadows in the open countryside, river and stream valleys, characteristic rocks and moors.
The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park is characterised by impressive biodiversity. A rich flora and fauna has its habitat here. Hikers and nature lovers can discover rare plants and animal species, including some that are rarely found in other parts of Germany. The open meadow landscapes are retreats for butterflies and insects, while the wooded areas provide habitats for wild animals such as deer, wild boar and foxes.
There are many opportunities for leisure activities in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park. In addition to hiking, you can go cycling, horseback riding or do water sports.
To make it possible to experience all of this, the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park offers guided hikes, workshops, seminars, courses and lectures on a variety of topics throughout the year. Nature experience programmes are also available for day-care groups, school classes and youth groups. Expeditions into the earth or bat safaris are just as much a part of the programme as animal forest rallies or climate-conscious nutrition.
Several information centres spread throughout the protected area provide visitors with comprehensive insights into the nature park. The Nature Park can be explored in multimedia form in the "Mensch und Landschaft" adventure museum in the Nature Park Information Centre in Hermeskeil. The museum is an interesting experience especially for children. A large panorama map with a screen provides information about the sights and leisure facilities on the Saar, Moselle, Nahe, Ruwer and in Hunsrück. The adjacent park with a tactile path and an open-air classroom invite visitors to linger.
The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park is committed to awakening enthusiasm for nature and the environment, bringing them closer to children, young people and adults in an eventful and playful way and thus laying a foundation for environmentally friendly action.

Source: DataHub Rheinland-Pfalz