Southern Eifel Nature Park: A region full of natural spectacles & a picture book of the earth's history

Everything takes time. Sometimes millions of years. A lot has to happen for a seabed to become a natural wonder. Gigantic mountains have to work their way up through floods before ice and wind gnaw away at them. Continental plates have to press against each other, the earth's crusts have to wedge themselves into each other... No nonsensical spectacle. For it is only where the Earth's history makes capers that extraordinary landscapes are created. The Southern Eifel Nature Park is one of these. If you want to visit the Southern Eifel Nature Park, you should take plenty of time: Time to relax, time for sporting activities, time for culinary experiences, time to marvel at the unique nature.

Mysterious rocky landscapes, picturesque river valleys, extensive forests, cosy Eifel villages and legendary witnesses of days long gone make a visit to the Southern Eifel Nature Park a very special experience. It is a large-scale protected area (432 km² in area), which is particularly suitable for an intensive experience of nature because of its scenic diversity and the associated richness of species of flora and fauna native to the area. The Southern Eifel Nature Park was founded in 1958, making it the oldest nature park in Rhineland-Palatinate and the second oldest in Germany. Together with the Our Nature Park, it forms the first transnational nature park in Europe: the German-Luxembourg Nature Park.

In the historically grown landscape of the Southern Eifel Nature Park, numerous animal and plant species that have become rare find the space they need to live. Gentle agriculture and forestry and targeted maintenance measures are the prerequisite for preserving the characteristic landscapes in their diversity of habitats.