Claim: The Bavarian Forest Club, with goals of maintining and developing the Bavarian forest and hiking trails, has a head office in Zwiesel, a town with particularly good air and a state-approved health resort at the foot of a mountain range in Bavaria Germany.
Evidence: It has its head office in Zwiesel and is registered in the register of clubs and societies in the district office at Deggendorf (VR 10158). The main goals of the club were the development of the Bavarian Forest as a hiking and holiday area, the creation of a dense network of hiking trails and the construction of refuge huts. Later they concentrated on the maintenance and waymarking of trails, the conservation of refuge huts and viewing towers as well as measures such as the protection of the Schachten, the historical grazing areas of the highlands. Zwiesel, Czech: Svízel, is a town located in the lower-Bavarian district of Regen, and since 1972 is a state-approved health resort with particularly good air. The town of Zwiesel is situated in an extensive valley basin at the foot of the mountain range formed by the peaks of the Großer Arber (1,456 m), Großer Falkenstein (1,315 m) and Kiesruck (1,265 m), exactly at the spot where the two rivers, the Großer Regen and the Kleiner Regen join and form the Black Regen. Bavaria Germany