Bohemian Forest

American  

noun

1. a wooded mountain range in central Europe, on the boundary between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak, Arber, 4,780 feet (1,455 meters).

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Bohemian Forest British  

noun

1. Czech name: Český Les.  German name: Böhmerwald.  a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)

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Example Sentences

He lived with his family in a remote town in what was then Czechoslovakia, nestled in the mountainous Bohemian Forest.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2018

To christen the new space, Jacques decided to exhibit ceramics produced between 1893 and 1910 in the Bohemian Forest of what is now the Czech Republic.

From Architectural Digest • Sep. 16, 2015

In the summer and fall of 2013, Malkemper exiled himself to a horse stable in the Czech Republic's Bohemian Forest, far from technology that could potentially throw off his sensitive measurements.

From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2015

They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers.

From Time Magazine Archive

You cross the fertile country of Franconia, a wide curve gives you a fine view of Nuremberg, and then you ascend towards the pass that divides the Ore Mountains from the Bohemian Forest.

From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville