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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

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102 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"<br />

Natural beech forest Serrahn<br />

4. State of conservation and<br />

factors aff ecting the property<br />

Th e nominated property “Ancient Beech Forests of Germany” represents<br />

the last relics in the European centre of distribution of the beech forests.<br />

Th ese are old-growth beech forests and prim eval forest relics. Together<br />

with the "Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians", they illustrate<br />

the singularly successful expansion process of the beech and beech forests<br />

as well as the ongoing postglacial ecological developments.

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