Wildpark Altenberg/Naturgehege

Just have a look - many wild animals in the immediate vicinity.Important: However, "at your own risk" for dogs (wild boars could be dangerous)

There is a white deer in the Altenberg wildlife park.

Unspoilt mountain nature, meadows and forests and native animals - that awaits visitors in the Wildpark Altenberg. However, this is not an animal park or zoo in the classical sense. The wildlife park Altenberg is a natural reserve in a fenced forest area of ​​448 hectares. This means that there is no fence between the visitors and the animals, but only at the outer edge of the entire game park. The animals z. Wild boars, deer and mouflon can move freely on the entire area of ​​the game reserve.

If you're lucky you can spot boars, deer and moufflons (large wild sheep with curved horns).

This valley offers a very unusual flora, you just have to look carefully to discover mushrooms, mosses and other trifles!

The wildlife park Altenberg is a natural reserve in a fenced forest area of ​​448 hectares. Here you can watch in the early hour dam, roe deer, mouflon and wild boar excellent.On foot you can always, except in the autumn at the time of the rutting, explore a nearly ten-kilometer-long and signposted network of trails. The owner of the game park is the Odenthal-living Prince Hubertus zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.The animals live completely free in this forest area. Only a fallow deer grazes the grass of the game park on fenced pastures.

The wildlife park is currently closed

Here you have to keep your eyes open to discover the game. First of all, you will only discover the earth that has been churned up by the wild boars, and then, if you're lucky, the wild boars themselves.

Unusual mushrooms, mosses, tree cover. Look carefully, what is growing, worth it!

A nice way through the game reserve. Often one finds solution of wild animals on the way or at the wayside. Had in the upper section the luck to see a deer flit through the trees.
Entering the enclosure between 8 - 17 clock, as it says on the signs at the entrance.

Sturdy shoes are recommended, especially after rain.

A wildlife park where you encounter wild game without a fence separating you from the animals. In addition, a very natural and calm atmosphere!
Opening times from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (a sign also said 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.).

On our hike around the Altenberg Cathedral we also had an eerie encounter with a wild boar. And it was really scary. How so? For what reason? Why? And you can find out whether we came out of this encounter safely at:
netreisetagebuch.de/altenberger-dom-wandern

The wild boar flew in front of us, quickly went into the woods.