Germany In Germany municipal forests are usually
corporate forests in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Forest Act (§ 3
Bundeswaldgesetz). Among the best known municipal forests in Germany are the
Tiergarten (210 ha) in Berlin, the Berlin City Forest (28,500 ha) which includes the
Grunewald (ca. 3,000 ha) and Köpenick Forest (ca. 6,500 ha), the
Frankfurt City Forest (3,866 ha), the
Dresden Heath (6,133 ha) and the
Rostock Heath (6,004 ha), which are some of the largest in the world. The
Duisburg City Forest, together with the Broich-Speldorf Forest in
Mülheim an der Ruhr, the
Sportpark Duisburg and the Duisburg Huckinger Mark form a contiguous forest area of about 3,000 ha. The
Leipzig Riverside Forest is one of the largest surviving
riparian forests in Central Europe.
List of municipal forests in Germany • Berlin City Forest (28,500 ha) with
Grunewald, Köpenick Forest and other woodland areas in and around Berlin •
Brilon Municipal Forest (7,750 ha) •
Baden-Baden, Municipal Forest (ca. 7,500 ha) •
Augsburg Municipal Forest (7,000 ha) •
Dresden Heath (6,133 ha) •
Rostock Heath (6,000 ha) •
Villingen-Schwenningen Municipal Forest (5,841 ha;
in toto 8,114,5 ha) •
Wiesbaden Municipal Forest (5,600 ha) •
Freiburg Municipal Forest (5,200 ha) •
Boppard Municipal Forest (4,360 ha) •
Frankfurt City Forest (3,866 ha Stadtwald.
in toto 5,785 ha) •
Fürstenwalde Municipal Forest (4,677 ha woods with 90% pine forest and 10% deciduous) •
Mühlhausen Municipal Forest (3,093 ha) •
Weißenburg Municipal Forest (2,806 ha) •
Koblenz Municipal Forest (2,772 ha) •
Bielefeld Municipal Forest (2,256 ha) •
Salzwedel Municipal Forest (1,400 ha) •
Leipzig Riverside Forest (1,163 ha of forest.
In toto ca. 2,500 ha) •
Calw Black Forest (1.100 ha) •
Lauerholz in Lübeck (960 ha) •
Steigerwald in Erfurt (800 ha) •
Eilenriede in
Hanover (650 ha) •
Duisburg City Forest (600 ha) •
Fürth Municipal Forest (560 ha) •
Eschweiler Municipal Forest (350 ha) •
Cologne Municipal Forest (205.3 ha) •
Marienhölzung in Flensburg (200 ha) •
Krefeld Municipal Forest (120 ha) •
Seelhorst in
Hanover (100 ha)
France •
Bois de Boulogne in Paris •
Bois de Vincennes in Paris
Austria •
Vienna Woods (105,645 ha, of which 8,650 ha are in
Vienna) •
Lainzer Tiergarten (2,450 ha) in
Vienna •
Lobau (2,300 ha) in
Vienna •
Viennese Prater (600 ha)
Switzerland • Stadtwald (1.200 ha) und
Sihlwald (1.000 ha) in
Zürich (
Schweiz) == United States ==