Bavarian Forest

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (April 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,147 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Bavarian Forest
Effects of bark beetle in the Bavarian Forest
Highest point
Peak	Großer Arber (Great Arber)
Elevation	4,776 ft (1,456 m)
Naming
Native name	Bayerischer Wald (German)
Geography
Topography of the Bavarian Forest
Country	Germany
Region	Bavaria
Parent range	Central Uplands Bohemian Massif
Geology
Orogeny	Variscan
Rock type(s)	Metamorphic Gneiss and Granite rocks

The Bavarian Forest (German: Bayerischer Wald [ˈbaɪʁɪʃɐ ˈvalt] ^ⓘ or Bayerwald [ˈbaɪɐvalt] ^ⓘ; Bavarian: Boarischa Woid) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech border and is continued on the Czech side by the Bohemian Forest (Czech: Šumava). Most of the Bavarian Forest lies within the province of Lower Bavaria, but the northern part lies within Upper Palatinate. In the south it reaches the border with Upper Austria.

Geologically and geomorphologically, the Bavarian Forest is part of the Bohemian Forest - the highest of the truncated highlands of the Bohemian Massif. The area along the Czech border has been designated as the Bavarian Forest National Park (240 km²), established in 1970 as the first national park in Germany. Another 3,008 km² has been designated as the Bavarian Forest Nature Park, established 1967, and another 1,738 km² as the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park, established in 1965. The Bavarian Forest is a remnant of the Hercynian Forest that stretched across southern Germania in Roman times. It is the largest protected forest area in central Europe.^[1]

The highest mountain in the region is the Großer Arber ("Great Arber", 1,456 m). The main river is the Regen, which is formed by the confluence of the White and Black Regen and flows out of the mountains towards the city of Regensburg.