Acidophilous forests of Fagus sylvatica, Fagus sylvatica and Abies alba or Fagus sylvatica, Abies alba and Picea abies of the submontane, montane and high montane levels of the greater Hercynian ranges, from the Vosges and the Black Forest to the Bohemian Quadrangle, of the Thüringian Forest, of the Jura, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Bavarian Plateau.