EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

146 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
on wooden posts indicate the routes to
ensure that visitors can discover them on
foot without any expert guidance. Th e
infrastructural facilities for visitors are
supplemented by three nature trails along
the hiking paths. Outside of the national
park, there is a visitor centre and two information
houses focussing on diff erent
topics.
Visitor centres and information
houses of the Kellerwald-Edersee
National Park
• The Kellerwald National Park Centre
in Vöhl-Herzhausen informs its visitors
about the wilderness subject on an
exhibition space of 700 m 2 and an open
air area of 15,000 m 2 . Inaugurated in
2008, it is state-of-the-art and follows
a multimedia approach. A 4D sensual
cinema is featured as the main attraction,
taking the visitors away to the
beech forests of the national park. The
exhibition concept is rounded off by
a comprehensive event and educational
programme.
• The “Fagutop” nearby the Edertal
Wild lifePark is a small information
house addressing the beech forest
ecosystem and its wildlife. Scheduled
for extension in 2009 and 2010 in
terms of space and contents, it will be
developed into a primary centre for the
national park’s educational programme,
into a wilderness school.
• The “KellerwaldUhr” in Frankenau
on the southern edge of the national
park informs about the national park
and history of the forest.
60,000 visitors have been counted in
the national park centre and 130,000
in the “Fagutop” and its wildlife park.
The “KellerwaldUhr” was frequented
by some 14,000 visitors.