 This is a leisure destination for local residents, home to many species of plants and animals and an essential source of fresh air for the region whilst at the same time producing wood, a natural and sustainable raw material.At the end of the 1960s, there were plans to build a new airport for Stuttgart here, but these were thwarted by the resistance of a large part of the population and a number of official bodies.As a result, it was decided to establish a nature park in the extensive forests between Böblingen, Sindelfingen, Herrenberg and Tübingen in 1972.