South Harz Nature Park

The South Harz Nature Park is located in the county of Nordhausen in north Thuringia, Germany. The act designating this nature park in the Harz Mountains came into force on 31 December 2010 and thus founded the fifth nature park in Thuringia. It has an area of 267 km². The park is managed by the South Harz Tourist Association in conjunction with the Kyffhäuser Nature Park.

The nature park covers parts of the southern foothills of the Lower Harz, the gypsum karst landscape of the adjacent Zechstein belt and the transition region with the North Thuringian bunter sandstone country. In the south, the park is bounded by the valley of the River Helme; on the other sides by the state border of Thuringia. Its western boundary is part of the German Green Belt. To the east is the South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve , to the north, the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and to the northwest, the Harz Nature Park . The entire Harz is a so-called major nature reserve in which the Harz National Park is also located.

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