Excursions
General information and instructions
Good hiking boots and standard outdoor equipment, especially against rain, are strongly recommended for all excursions! The Black Forest could have rather cold and humid conditions (maximum annual average precipitation in the upper montane belt about 2000 mm; maximum annual average temperature about 3 to 4 °C!). Despite this the Black Forest is a very nice holiday landscape!
Registration needed for excursions.
Pre-congress welcome excursion
A pre-congress welcome excursion is planned for Sunday afternoon, 30th August 2015. A bus will start with the participants in front of the Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, at 1.00 pm and bring them back to the same place around 7.00 pm. With this trip, we would like to offer the opportunity to get some deeper insights in our kiln site anthracological and mining archaeological research field and field work at the western edge of the Black Forest. Depending on the weather and on the possibility to construct and run an experimental charcoal kiln just in time as well as the progress of the charcoal burning process, we will visit a running traditional charcoal kiln, a pilot area of historical mining and/or the highest tree of Germany. The program will differ from the program the following Sunday. A guide book of the excursion will be provided to the participants.
Mid-congress excursion
A mid-congress excursion is planned for Wednesday afternoon, 2nd September 2015. A bus will start with the participants in front of the Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, at 1.00 pm and bring them back to the same place around 7.00 pm. This trip gives the opportunity to get some deeper insights in the historical cultural landscape and traditional land-use practices of the Southern Black Forest. Depending on the weather we will climb up (mainly by cablecar) on the mountain top of the city of Freiburg, one of the highest mountains of the Black Forest, visit some typical well-prepared sites of historical charcoal burning, cross the heart of a valuable nature conservation area of high (European; FFH) significance and enter an old traditional farm and especially the well-conserved farmhouse. Moreover, the area visited has also a long tradition of historical mining with a large mine. A guide book of the excursion will be provided to the participants.
Post-congress excursion
An all-day post-congress excursion is planned for Saturday, 5th September 2015. A bus will start with the participants in front of the Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, at 8.30 am and bring them back to the same place around 7.00 pm. We would like to offer the opportunity to get some deeper insights in the settlement, land-use and vegetation history of a very remote area of the Central Black Forest. The participants will visit a late-settled steep, rocky and stony area of the Central Black Forest, which was agriculturally used only for a few centuries after the middle ages and is mainly abandoned since decades, having the status of a nature conservation area and a strictly protected forest area today and since nearly half a century – representing the highest degree of conservation in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg as well as a (relatively) low degree of anthropogenic influence in Western Central Europe (conservation of natural processes). It is an area of well-known land-use history, vegetation and cultural landscape elements. A guide book of the excursion will be provided to the participants. At the end of the excursion we will try to schedule a stop at a Black Forest farm inn.
Post-congress good-bye excursion
A post-congress good-bye excursion is planned for morning at Sunday, 6th September 2015. A bus will start with the participants again in front of the Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, at 8.30 am and bring them back to the same place around 1.00 pm. With this trip, we would like to offer (again) the opportunity to get some deeper insights in our kiln site anthracological and mining archaeological research field and field work at the western edge of the Black Forest. Depending on the weather and on the possibility to construct and run an experimental charcoal kiln just in time as well as the progress of the charcoal burning process (7 days later!), we will visit a running traditional charcoal kiln, a pilot area of historical mining and/or the highest tree of Germany. The program will differ from the program on Sunday a week before. A guide book of the excursion will be provided to the participants.