Kellerwald-Edersee National Park protects 57.38 square kilometers of the northern Kellerwald low mountain range south of the Edersee reservoir in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district of Hesse, Germany. It was designated a national park on January 1, 2004 and is administered from the town of Bad Wildungen. Since June 25, 2011 its beech-forested area has formed part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site for Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests, valued for documenting the ecological history of European forests since the last ice age.
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Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing Body
Governing Body (category)German national park administration (Nationalparkverwaltung) 1 Sources
1. Kellerwald-Edersee National Park (Wikipedia)
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The national park administration is located in the small town of Bad Wildungen, east of the park.
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Kellerwald-Edersee National Park (German: Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee), CDDA-No.
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Since 25 June 2011 the beech forested area of the national park has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, because of its testimony to the ecological history of the beech family and the forest dynamics of Europe since the Last Glacial Period.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Kellerwald-Edersee National Park
- Wikidata Q695880, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata Q695880 P31 instance-of
- Wikidata Q695880 P571 inception
- Part Of: Germany, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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