Seelensteig - Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald

Wind breakage 1983
Since then natural
forest development!
Map Detail
Bark beetle
infestation
1995
Young forest from
natural regeneration
Spruce Forest Trail
Forest Playgrounds
Spiegelau
Core Area
do not leave the trail
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~120-year-old
mixed mountain forest:
same age due to
utilisation
WC
Text tablets
Boardwalk with stairs Caution slippery
when wet or windy
855 m
a.s.l.
890 m
a.s.l.
Bark beetle
infestation
2005/06
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Wind breakage 1983, 1991 and 2006,
bark beetle infestation 1987/88,
1992/93 and 2005/06:
natural forest regeneration
100
200 m
So you will help the nature
in the Nationalpark
Bavarian Forest National Park Authority
Freyunger Straße 2, 94481 Grafenau
Phone 0 8 52 96 000
[email protected]
The Bavarian Forest National Park
has been awarded the
European Diploma of
Protected Areas since1986
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300 400year-old
fir trees
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835 m
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From 15 May to the beginning of November, the Schwarzachstraße is closed to private traffic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Please use the “Igel Busses” (every half hour).
Seelensteig
Length ca. 1.3 km
ren
Die Seele wird vom Pflastertreten krumm.
Mit Bäumen kann man
Bäume sind Heiligtümer.
wie mit Brüdern reden
und tauscht bei ihnen seine Seele um. Wer mit ihnen zu sprechen,
wer ihnen zuzuhören weiß,
Die Wälder schweigen.
der erfährt die Wahrheit.
Doch sie sind nicht stumm.
Sie predigen nicht Lehren
Und wer auch kommen mag,
und Rezepte,
Sie trösten jeden.
sie predigen
Erich Kästner
das Urgesetz des Lebens.
Hermann Hesse
I am longing for a wild nature,
which cannot be penetrated,
longing for forests,
where the chirping of the wood thrush sounds forever,
where every hour is an early morning
Wildnis ist:
and the day forever virgin.
- Vitalität und Vielfalt erfahren
Henry Thoreau
- Akzeptieren von Vergänglichem
- Überwinden festgefahrener Werte und Symbole
- Staunen hervorrufen
- den Wert der Einfachheit zeigen
- Tolerieren und Zulassen von Ungewöhnlichem
- Wachstum und Sterben in seiner Gleichzeitigkeit erfahren
- Ruhe und Gelassenheit offenbaren
Gabi Hanner
Gfäll
Hiking Trails to Mount Rachel
Gfäll
ling
Glaube mir, denn ich habe es erfahren,
du wirst mehr in den Wäldern finden
als in den Büchern.
Bäume und Steine werden dich lehren,
was du von keinem Lehrmeister hörst.
Die meisten Menschen
Bernhard von Clairvaux
wissen gar nicht, wie schön die Welt ist
und wieviel Pracht in den kleinsten Dingen,
in irgendeiner Blume, einem Stein,
einer Baumrinde oder einem Birkenblatt sich offenbart.
Es geht eine große und ewige Schönheit durch die ganze Welt,
und diese ist gerecht über den kleinenund großen Dingen verstreut.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Weißt du, was ein Wald ist?
Ist ein Wald etwa nur zehntausend Klafter Holz?
Oder ist er eine grüne Menschenfreude?
Es braucht der Mensch
Bert Brecht
die Naturerlebnisse als Gegengewicht
gegen die Unruhe und Ängste des Herzens,
gegen den kalten, harten Glanz
Ich schenke Dir, für den Sohn,
laufender Maschinen,
meinen Wald.
gegen den Schatten der Atombombe.
Umflogen von Eulen,
Die Welt ist unheimlich geworden,
befährtet vom Hirsch,
aber die Wege,
wird er ihn lehren,
die uns das Gewissen zeigt
dass Freiraum für Leben nur ist,
- zurück zur Natur wo Natur ihre eigenen Wege geht. können uns aus dem Höllenkreis
Horst Stern
herausführen.
Theodor Heuss
H I K I N G I N T H E N AT I O N A L PA R K
www.nationalpark-bayerischer-wald.de
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Q U O TAT I O N S A LO N G T H E S E E L E N S T E I G
ADVENTURE TRAIL
Seelensteig
The Seelensteig - a foresight into
natural forest development
With the foundation of the Bavarian Forest National Park in 1970 the
forestry industry was gradually reduced after 20 years of utilisation.
Today the former commercially used forest resources around Mount
Lusen are allowed to develop in accordance with their own ancient
laws without any human intervention. As of 2027 the forests around
Mount Falkenstein are allowed to develop to theirs own natural laws
after consistently enlarging the nature zones to almost 20.000ha of
interrelated woodland. In a merely 500 m-broad margi-nal area the
bark beetle will be controlled to protect the adjacent privately owned
forests.
Diversified and more stable natural forests develop out of centuries long silviculturally used forests. Occurrences like storms and bark
beetle infestations accelerate such unique forest regeneration.
A typical mixed mountain forest of firs, beeches and spruces was
developed with a 1.3 km-long boardwalk in a nature orientated way in
summer 1995. In this forest area no using has taken place for about 50
years. Thereby no tree was cut in two. The aim was and is to make it
possible to experince prospective wilderness even in hardly accessible
natural forests.
The idea to call the boardwalk “Seelensteig“ - souls trail was resulting
by the thougt to give full scope the feelings concerning the forest. The
trail provides profound insights in the unexpected self-healing forces.
The nature presents a gorgeous spectacle and the visitor receives the
cance to experience the everlasting circle of “growth, becoming and
decay”. In addition to it the nature presents trust in the development of
an extensively regeneration of a mountain spruce forest which has
been taking place since 1996.
This process along the “Seelensteig” has become a foresight of natural
forest regeneration owing to its temporal advance.
Please mind abruptly falling dead wood especially with
strong wind.
Please stay on marked trails within the Core Area!
Text tablets along the “Seelensteig”
Not only the people need
the forest.
The forest teaches
humanity
The forest teaches
modesty
It is also the forest who needs
the people
who protect him.
In this way
the knowing recognise
that not only the healthy
but also the morbid parts
render an indispensable service to
a society as a whole.
People want healty wood
but woodpecker want unhealthy.
That is why this trail.
It is called
The Souls Trail
The morbid tree
nourishes a myriad of creatures
which transform
the decaying biomass
of leaves, branches, stumps
to fresh forest soil.
Seelensteig
All the people who walk the trail
shall be affected
by the pictures of life
and death
which are made visible by the trail.
In a
Forest
plants and animals
visible and invisible, young and old
are on a tiny little space or on a huge area
with each other and for each other
Forest teaches,
that monotony overshadowed the mind
and endangered life
Only a forest which consists of young and old trees on a small area
is serene and steady.
And who have not lost its feeling for
natural forest compositions know that:
Ancient trees are beautiful.
The thoughts,
worth being considered,
abandon the healthy
who are only
concerned about increasing the amount of
material goods.
People do not enable
forests to mature
but the capercaillies do not enable
young forests to live.
In an economy
people do not think much of
deciduous trees
since they do not bring much money
but black woodpeckers depend on them!
Tengmalm’s owls and stock pigeons
wait for the holes
dug out by the woodpeckers.
All these are “conflicts of objectives”.
And people tend to come first!
Only the healthy
and lucrative forest
loses its biodiversity.
This is no law of nature!
The forest teaches
the meaning of life
The forest teaches
the gratefulness
of the presentees
A fir
is able to stay
underneath the impervious crown
of an old beech
for two generations,
then being only
as thick as an arm and
as tall as a little child
but tightly packed
with annual rings.
The fir starts growing
when the giant tree falls
and gives way to the sun.
In this way the forest regenerates itself.
Its individuals die,
ist life is forever.
Even more than its timber,
more than the breathable air
which it cleans and cools for us,
the water
which it filters and conserves,
the silence created
and the soil retained,
we need
its mental welfare effects.
The forest is
not only the people
green delight
but the place
where the lost
natural measurements
are conserved.