Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park
national park in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany
Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park (German: Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald) is a national park located in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland in Germany. The Park was established in March 2015 and is the country's newest national park, as well as the only one located in either of the two Bundesländer. The Park protects roughly 10,000 hectares of upland forests and fields.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park” is national park in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hunsrück-Hochwald, National and Park, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “national park in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17393446. VIAF identifies the subject as 115144782947237367953. Authority coordinates are 49.706, 7.104. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.