Forest diversity - from ticks to deer

About the tour

With around 4,300 hectares of forest (43 km²), the city of Wiesbaden is one of the largest municipal forest owners in Germany. Located in the Taunus Mountains, the green belt of the city forest nestles in a semi-circle around the northern edge of the city. This year, the Wiesbaden city forest was voted Forest Area of the Year 2025. Since 1999, it has been awarded the international environmental seal of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Naturland guidelines, which are awarded for particularly careful forest management.

Together with the forester, get to know the near-natural forest, which is home to rare moss and special animal species and more than fifty different tree species. We will learn how this forest is managed in a natural way, how the foresters deal with drought and beetle damage and how a near-natural, stable mixed forest can be created.

Find out what is special about this forest, whether there are different types of forest here, how we use the wood. Which animals still live here, which ones can we discover? Is hunting allowed, and if so, who? What do the markings on the trees mean? What about tree and animal species that are dying out? And will new ones appear? And what does a forester actually do? The profession originated in the 18th century and developed from hunting and forest management. Are they constantly out and about in the forest? Does he/she know all the animals in the forest?

Let a forestry expert from our Wiesbaden city forest take you and your children into the secrets of our forest – an exciting and stimulating guided tour where you can ask the questions that have always occurred to you during a walk in the woods!

Forests are complex ecosystems. If their resources are optimally utilised, they are the most productive terrestrial ecosystem. After the oceans, our forests are the most important factor influencing the global climate. They reduce carbon dioxide and are the most important producers of oxygen. Forests therefore have a balancing effect on the global material balance. The biodiversity of forests is an invaluable gene pool.