Editing Black Forest (section)

==== Work of the Institute of Applied Geography ====
The [[Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany]] published by the Federal Office of Regional Geography (''{{lang|de|Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde}}'') since the early 1950s names the Black Forest as one of six tertiary-level major landscape regions within the secondary-level region of the South German Scarplands and, at the same time, one of nine new major landscape unit groups. It is divided into six so-called major units (level 4 landscapes).<ref name="Meynen">{{cite book|editor-first1=Emil|editor-last1=Meynen|editor-first2=Josef|editor-last2=Schmithüsen|title=[[Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands]]|publisher=Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde|location=Remagen/Bad Godesberg|year=1953–1962}}</ref> This division was refined and modified in several successor publications (1:200,000 individual map sheets) up to 1967, each covering individual sections of the map. The mountain range was also divided into three regions. The northern boundary of the Central Black Forest in this classification runs south of the Rench Valley and the [[Kniebis]] to near Freudenstadt. Its southern boundary varied with each edition.<ref name="Meynen"/>

In 1998, the Baden-Württemberg State Department for Environmental Protection (today the Baden-Württemberg State Department for the Environment, Survey and Nature Conservation) published a reworked Natural Region Division of Baden-Württemberg.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Thomas|last=Breunig|url=http://www.fachdokumente.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/50033/nat1in0092.html?COMMAND=DisplayBericht&FIS=200&OBJECT=50033&MODE=BER&RIGHTMENU=NO|title=Überarbeitung der Naturräumlichen Gliederung Baden-Württembergs auf Ebene der naturräumlichen Haupteinheiten|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219145155/http://www.fachdokumente.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/50033/nat1in0092.html?COMMAND=DisplayBericht&FIS=200&OBJECT=50033&MODE=BER&RIGHTMENU=NO |archive-date=19 December 2014|journal=Naturschutz-Info|year=1998|issue=1}}</ref> It is restricted to the level of the natural regional major units and has been used since for the state's administration of nature conservation:{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! No. !! Natural region
! Area<br />in km<sup>2</sup> !! Population !! Pop./km<sup>2</sup>
! Settlement<br />area<br />in % !! Open land<br />in % !! Forest<br />in %
! Major<br />centres of<br />population !! Middle-sized<br />centres of<br />population
|-
| 150 || [[Northern Black Forest|Black Forest Foothills]]<ref name="Steckbrief 150">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|150|Schwarzwald-Randplatten|9,9|ref=nein}}</ref>
| {{0}}930 || 268,000 || 289
| 7.69 || 29.33 || 62.92
| [[Pforzheim]] || [[Calw]],<br />[[Freudenstadt]]
|-
| 151 || [[Northern Black Forest|Black Forest Grinden and Enz Hills]]<ref name="Steckbrief 151">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|151|Grindenschwarzwald und Enzhöhen|8,9|ref=nein}}</ref>
| {{0}}699 || {{0}}60,000 || {{0}}86
| 1.92 || {{0}}6.39 || 91.51
| ||
|-
| 152 || [[Northern Black Forest|Northern Black Forest Valleys]]<ref name="Steckbrief 152">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|152|Nördlicher Talschwarzwald|9,0|ref=nein}}</ref>
| {{0}}562 || 107,000 || 190
| 4.12 || 19.48 || 76.41
|  || [[Baden-Baden]],<br />[[Gaggenau]]/[[Gernsbach]]
|-
|153 || [[Central Black Forest]]<ref name="Steckbrief 153">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|153|Mittlerer Schwarzwald|9,6|ref=nein}}</ref>
| 1,422 || 188,000 || 133
| 3.35 || 30.25 || 66.39
|  || [[Haslach im Kinzigtal|Haslach]]/[[Hausach]]/[[Wolfach]],<br />[[Waldkirch]], [[Schramberg]]
|-
|154 || [[Southern Black Forest|Southeastern Black Forest]]<ref name="Steckbrief 154">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|154|Südöstlicher Schwarzwald|6,8|ref=nein}}</ref>
| {{0}}558 || {{0}}80,923 || 112
| 3.03 || 32.44 || 64.49
| [[Villingen-Schwenningen]] ||
|-
|155 || [[High Black Forest]]<ref name="Steckbrief 155">{{GeoQuelle|DE-BW|LUBW-NR-SB|155|Hochschwarzwald|10,1|ref=nein}}</ref>
| 1,990 || 213,000 || 107
| 2.44 || 26.93 || 70.31
|  || [[Schopfheim]],<br />[[Titisee-Neustadt]]
|}

[[File:Yburg von Fremersberg (cropped).jpg|thumb|Slopes of the Northern Black Forest to the Upper Rhine Plain (Northern Black Forest Valleys)]]
The Black Forest Foothills (''{{lang|de|Schwarzwald-Randplatten}}'', 150) geomorphologically form plateaux on the north and northeast periphery of the mountain range that descend to the [[Kraichgau]] in the north and the [[Heckengäu]] landscapes in the east. They are incised by valleys, especially those of the [[Nagold (river)|Nagold]] river system, into individual [[interfluve]]s; a narrow northwestern finger extends to beyond the [[Enz]] near [[Neuenbürg]] and also borders the middle reaches of the [[Alb (Upper Rhine)|Alb]] to the west as far as a point immediately above [[Ettlingen]]. To the southwest it is adjoined by the Black Forest [[Grinde (landform)|Grinden]] and Enz Hills ({{lang|de|Grindenschwarzwald und Enzhöhen}}, 151), along the upper reaches of the Enz and Murg, forming the heart of the Northern Black Forest. The west of the Northern Black Forest is formed by the Northern Black Forest Valleys ({{lang|de|Nördliche Talschwarzwald}}, 152) with the middle reaches of the Murg around [[Gernsbach]], the middle course of the [[Oos (river)|Oos]] to [[Baden-Baden]], the middle reaches of the [[Sandbach (Acher)|Bühlot]] above [[Bühl (Baden)|Bühls]] and the upper reaches of the [[Rench]] around [[Oppenau]]. Their exit valleys from the mountain range are all oriented towards the northwest.

[[File:Langbrunnen Welschensteinach 01 Kandelhöhenweg.jpg|thumb|Grassland economy in side valleys of the Kinzig, Central Black Forest]]
The Central Black Forest (153) is mainly restricted to the [[drainage basin|catchment area]] of the River [[Kinzig (Rhine)|Kinzig]] above [[Offenburg]] as well as the [[Schutter (Kinzig)|Schutter]] and the low hills north of the [[Elz (Rhine)|Elz]].

The Southeastern Black Forest ({{lang|de|Südöstliche Schwarzwald}}, 154) consists mainly of the catchment areas of the upper reaches of the [[Danube]] headstreams, the [[Brigach]] and [[Breg (river)|Breg]] as well as the left side valleys of the [[Wutach (river)|Wutach]] north of [[Neustadt im Schwarzwald|Neustadt]] – and thus draining from the northeast of the Southern Black Forest. To the south and west it is adjoined by the High Black Forest ({{lang|de|Hochschwarzwald}}, 155) with the highest summits in the whole range around the [[Feldberg (Black Forest)|Feldberg]] and the [[Belchen (Black Forest)|Belchen]]. Its eastern part, the Southern Black Forest Plateau, is oriented towards the Danube, but drained over the Wutach and the [[Alb (High Rhine)|Alb]] into the Rhine. The southern crest of the Black Forest in the west is deeply incised by the Rhine into numerous ridges. Immediately right of the [[Wiese (river)|Wiese]] above [[Lörrach]] rises the relatively small Bunter Sandstone-[[Rotliegend]]es table of the Weintenau Uplands ({{lang|de|Weitenauer Bergland}}) in the extreme southwest of the Black Forest; morphologically, geologically and climatically it is separate from the other parts of the Southern Black Forest and, in this classification, is also counted as part of the High Black Forest.

[[File:Belche-vum-Minschtertal.jpg|thumb|The [[Belchen (Black Forest)|Belchen]] in the Southern Black Forest with its bare dome, seen from [[Münstertal, Black Forest|Münstertal]]]]