The most important destination in the Schwarzwald is called, interestingly, Titisee, which is a medium-sized lake with associated tourist village ( Titisee-Neustadt) and hotels, with very nice views and generally very relaxed and healthy activities.

There is a large high-tech light engineering industry in the region stemming from the silver-mining and watchmaking days. The region is famous for its cuckoo clocks, watchmaking, skiing and hiking. The region managed by the Black Forest Tourism Board extends beyond the mountains and includes attractions like the Europa-Park and the Kaiserstuhl hills in the Upper Rhine Plain as well as the surrounding cities. The Black Forest is a mountainous terrain at about 200–1,500 m (660–4,920 ft) above sea level, the highest point being the Feldberg (the field mountain) at 1,493 m (4,898 ft). Better to head south to the Alps if you are a serious skier or boarder. There are a few skiing resorts as well offering average but crowded conditions. While not particularly high, the mountains offer a wonderful place to go hiking or mountain biking. This ancient forest is famous for its legends and the black fir trees that dot the landscape. It is a picture of a goat, riding on a sheep, in Heidelberg.The Vogtsbauernhof, a typical farm house of the region, in the Black Forest Open Air Museum this one's from my friend Mark, who lives in Germany. It's always best to plot the data in several different ways to more fully understand it.Īnd now for a 'fun' picture. I think a separate gradient shaded map for each country would be ideal. In addition to the map showing the predominant foreigners living in each area, it would also be interesting to plot the number, or percent, or per-100,000. Now I know that foreigners from Turkey are predominant in the area of the Black Forest's highest peak. I moused over the areas in southwestern Germany, and quickly found one with that name in the mouse-over text. The highest peak in the Black Forest is Feldberg, and that is in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Wikipedia says it's in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and now I can easily see the extent of that state, using the darker black border (whereas before I just vaguely knew 'southwestern Germany'). I also made the county outlines lighter, and added a darker outline around the states.Īnd now, back to the Black Forest question.I changed the names in the legend to the English spelling (previously, I didn't have a clue that 'Vereinigte Staaten' was United States, and 'Sonstige' was Other!).(Click the map image below, to see the interactive version with the mouse-over text.) I added HTML mouse-over text, so you can mouse over each area and see the county & state name, and the predominant foreigners living there.

I include the title as part of the image file - now if someone copies the map image, the title automatically goes along with it.For the colors that were difficult to discern (such as purple & gray), I adjusted them to be darker/lighter (eg, darker purple, and lighter gray).I removed the labels from the map, which gave it a much more clean look.Here's a list of the improvements I made, and then an image of my new map (below): Perhaps we can get a more exact answer with my new/improved map(?) My friend Courtenay took this photo in the heart of the Black Forest on her recent visit. Here's a question to tie the photo in with the map - what is the predominant group of foreigners living in the Black Forest area? Wikipedia says the Black Forest is located in southwestern Germany, and from the map in the article (above), it looks like the foreigners living in that general area are probably from Turkey or Italy. And the countries in the legend are in German (not a problem for those who speak German, but difficult for the rest of the world to understand).īefore we move on to my new version of the map, here's a photo to get you into the mood for Germany.There is no mouse-over text to see the individual county names & values.The title is separate from the image file.Some of the colors are difficult to discern.The labels printed on the map are very difficult to read.It was an interesting map, but I thought I might be able to make a few improvements.īelow is the original map from the article, and a list of some things I wanted to improve about it: I recently saw a map of Germany, that showed which country had the most foreigners living in each area. And for many people in Europe, that 'where' is Germany. These days, more and more people move to where the work is.

Black forest map