📜 Diverse landscape with wild animal enclosures and hiking trails.
🔍 Explore forests, meadows, and unique plant collections on the Albhochfläche.
🦌 Observe red deer and wild boars up close in enclosures.
🚶♀️ Hike through varied landscapes of forests, meadows, and avenues.
🤸♂️ Enjoy a large playground, especially for children.
🌿 Discover unique wild shrub collection and field flora reserve.
🔬 Learn about traditional forestry and agricultural research.
📣 Experience the red deer rutting season in September and October.
🐖 Spot tiny striped wild boar piglets in spring (March/April).
🦊 Encounter various wild species like deer, hares, foxes, and birds.
🌳 Admire ancient pasture beeches and lime avenues, home to rare insects.
⛳ Play disc golf.
⏰ Best animal observation times are early mornings and late evenings.
⚠️ Wild boars are intelligent and fast; maintain a safe distance.
🚫 Respect boundaries of research plots at Buchrain and Oberer Lindenhof.
🦌🐗 Two wild animal enclosures at the parking lot with red deer and wild boars.
🌅 Best observation times: early mornings and late evenings when animals are most active.
📣 Red deer rutting season: September and October (stags very active, loud roaring).
🐖 Wild boar piglets: born March/April, visible by May.
🦊 Beyond enclosures: deer, hares, foxes, and numerous bird and insect species.
🦉🦇 Hidden animal silhouettes on the path to Hannersteigfelsen.
🦅 Kestrels and Peregrine Falcons can be observed hunting.
🌸 Multitude of wild-growing plants along hiking trails.
🌿 Wild shrub collection and field flora reserve (1-hectare area).
🌹 Features all native shrubs, wild roses, and wild fruit species of the Swabian Alb.
🌾 Arable plots cultivated using the traditional three-field system.
🌳 Distinctive pasture beeches (Hutebuchen) and avenues of lime, ash, and maple trees.
🐞 Lime avenues are home to the extremely rare Lime Jewel Beetle.
🌲 Original primeval forests of beech, ash, and sycamore maple.
♻️ Current goal: develop near-natural deciduous forests with small proportions of spruce.
🌬️ Hurricane "Lothar" (1999) led to natural regeneration of forests.
🌱 Visitors can help with beech re-expansion by planting beech seeds.
🔬 Fallow Experiments (Bracheversuche) at Buchrain: long-term effects of unmanaged grassland since 1972.
🐑 Methods studied: mulching, controlled burning, sheep grazing, and natural succession.
🎓 Oberer Lindenhof: research and teaching facility of the University of Hohenheim.
🌾 "Plant Breeding Research Area" for cereals, oil/protein plants, and forage grasses.
🐐 "Animal Husbandry / Animal Breeding Research Area" with sheep breeds and multi-purpose goat breeding (Cashgora, milk, meat).
🐑 Schafhaus: part of the Marbach State Stud Farm, housing a large flock of Merino sheep.
🅿️ Two wild animal enclosures are located at the parking lot.