The Altdorf Forest () is a forested, low mountain ridge between Aulendorf and Vogt in the county of Ravensburg in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is up to high.
The forest has an area of about 82 km<sup>2</sup> and is thus the largest contiguous forest in Upper Swabia. It is divided into state, municipal and private forests, of which the aristocratic House of Waldburg-Wolfegg owns the largest area.
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Literature
- Anton Huber: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Altdorfer Waldes. Staatliches Forstamt, Ravensburg, 1998
- Jochen Jauch: Geschichte und Geschichten aus dem Altdorfer Wald. Von der Försterei Gambach zum Forstrevier Bergatreute. Eppe, Bergatreute, 2012,
- Volker Kracht (ed.): Die Naturschutzgebiete im Regierungsbezirk Tübingen. 2nd edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2006, (includes coverage of the few nature reserves in the Altdorf Forest)
- J. D. G. von Memminger: Der Altdorfer Wald, in: Beschreibung des Oberamts Ravensburg. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1836 ()
- Der Altdorfer Wald, in: Allgemeine Forst und Jagdzeitung, 9th annual issue, 1840, pp. 424ff. (digitalised)
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