Diemelsee Nature Park

The highest mountains in the Sauerland and wide valleys, deep forests alternating with meadows and fields characterize the Diemelsee Nature Park. Dark spruce forests as well as colorful deciduous and mixed forests cover about half of the area. In between you will find fields and pastureland, colorful flower meadows, crystal-clear streams, unique natural landscapes, erica-colored Hochheide and, in the middle of it all, Diemelsee.

The biodiversity of birds, fish, mammals, plants and amphibians speaks for the excellent water quality of the lake and the watercourses as well as for a largely intact landscape. Red deer, wild boar, roe deer and the shy mouflon can be found in the large, contiguous forest areas.

Cultural and historical monuments are reminders of times long past and the Diemelsee Nature Park also has a lot to offer below the surface: Devonian and Carboniferous slate, quartzite, volcanic diabase, marl and various limestones as well as precious fossils, minerals and ores. Important fossil sites, visitor mines and the largest gold deposit in Germany provide interesting insights into 300 million years of geological history.