" Germany: 1978/today - ALPEN NP Berchtesgaden Mug

The national park Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian district of Berchtesgadener Land is the only German national park in the Alps. The area covers an area of 208 km² and is part of the Berchtesgaden Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 1990, which has been extended to the Berchtesgaden Biosphere Reserve since June 2010. The national park Berchtesgaden covers a large part of the municipal areas of Ramsau near Berchtesgaden and Schönau on the Königsee lake as well as a small part of the south-eastern community area of Berchtesgaden. It is bounded in the east, south and southwest by the Austrian state of Salzburg. According to the structure of the main natural spaces in Germany, the area of the National Park belongs to the Berchtesgaden Alps in the Northern Kalkalpen. The highest elevation within the national park is the Watzmann, the central mountain massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The Wimbachgries, a valley which, according to a geological theory, was created by the collapse of a vault over Watzmann and Hochkalter. It is filled with a deposit of up to 300 meters thick and stretches over ten kilometers. The Funtensee, a mountain lake where the lowest temperatures are regularly measured throughout Germany in winter, is also located in the area of the Berchtesgaden National Park.