Romincka Forest

"Krasny Les" redirects here. For the villages in the Czech Republic, see Krásný Les (disambiguation).

A map of Suwalszczyzna with Puszcza Romincka in the north

Romincka Forest (Template:Lang-pl), also known as Rominta Forest or Krasny Les (Russian: Красный лес), a palaearctic ecoregion (called Puszcza Romincka) in the Taiga and boreal forests Biome, is located in Russia and Poland.

The German and Polish names of the forest are derived from the Old Prussian syllable rom, meaning calm or holy, as the forest was connected with the mythology of the Old Prussians. The Russian name, Krasny Les, means "red forest".

Geography

The forest complex is in the east of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northeastern Poland, and the southeast of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The total area of the forest is about 360 km². It includes the protected area known as Puszcza Romincka Landscape Park. The Krasnaya River flows through the forest. Localities in the forest include Krasnolesye, Żytkiejmy, and Gołdap.

Prior to 1945 the forest was part of German East Prussia and known as the Rominter Heath (German: Rominter Heide). It was known as an Imperial Hunting ground for Kaiser Wilhelm II, who built his Rominten Hunting Lodge here and later Hermann Göring's Reichsjägerhof Rominten. The Potsdam Agreement after World War II divided the region between Poland and the Soviet Union.

See also

• Index: Taiga and boreal forests Ecoregion

Palearctic boreal forests/taiga ecoregions
East Siberian taiga	Russia
Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra	Iceland
Kamchatka–Kurile meadows and sparse forests	Russia
Kamchatka–Kurile taiga	Russia
Northeast Siberian taiga	Russia
Okhotsk–Manchurian taiga	Russia
Sakhalin Island taiga	Russia
Scandinavian and Russian taiga	Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Trans-Baikal conifer forests	Mongolia, Russia
Urals montane tundra and taiga	Russia
West Siberian taiga	Russia