page_title: Hornisgrinde
section_title: Grinden and raised bogs
hierarchical_section_title: Hornisgrinde / Geography / Grinden and raised bogs
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hochmoorfläche auf der Hornisgrinde (Naturschutzgebiet) Foto: M. Linnenbach GNU-FDL
context_page_description: The Hornisgrinde, 1,164 m, is the highest mountain in the Northern Black Forest of Germany. The Hornisgrinde lies in northern Ortenaukreis district.
context_section_description: The Grinden - treeless wet heathlands on the highest areas, were created following forest clearance and the subsequent use of the land as grazing in the 15th century. By contrast the raised bog, up to five metres thick, in the southeastern area of the summit plateau is naturally treeless. It is reckoned to be at least 6,000 years old.
  Parts of the plateau with the raised bog and the Karwand to the Biberkessel were designated as the Hornisgrinde-Biberkessel Nature Reserve (Naturschutzgebiet Hornisgrinde–Biberkessel, 95 ha.) in 1992.
caption: Protected areas of the raised bog on the summit plateau of the Hornisgrinde with typical bog vegetation and crooked, stunted fir trees
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