A little bit over a week ago I spent a few days in the Black Forest. The northern part is less in altitude than the southern part but at the right spot the view is still impressive. The Rhine flows in the distance and on … Continue reading 1000 Metres Above the Rhine Valley
This hotel in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest still takes guests apparently. This side of the house faces the river Enz flowing through the town, the entrance is on the other side. Monday Window
when there is a blue sky! I was up here when I took the picture: Weekly Prompts – The One Day Challenge 7
This is the Mummelsee, a lake in the Northern part of the Black Forest. There are countless legends about this lake and its mythical inhabitants, water sprites, mermen, and other ghostly beings. Poems have been written about it, the most famous by Eduard Mörike is called The Geister am Mummelsee (The Ghosts at the Mummelsee).
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Seven years ago I was camping in the Black Forest and saw this derelict hut next to the camping grounds. I featured it here last year. And this week I happened to drive past the same field and the hut has been partly spruced up. … Continue reading What a Difference Seven Years Make (2nd attempt)
Seven years ago I was camping in the Black Forest and saw this derelict hut next to the camping grounds. I featured it in a post for FOWC last year. And this week I happened to drive past the same field and the hut has … Continue reading What a Difference Seven Years Make
The worst winter storm in recorded European history was Cyclone Lothar in 1999. In the Black Forest there is a strip of land which was left to heal itself. It’s possible to walk through the area and see what happens if nature is left to do its own thing. In order not to disturb this process visitors are not allowed to walk on the ground but on the raised planks leading through the emerging forest.
My husband’s first name is Lothar so he has a special connection to the area.
Can somebody correct this? No snow. Wrong spelling. And the trail shouldn’t lead up a tree.
Note of interest: The five red dots on top of the T in trail, the logo of the Black Forest (mountain bike) Trails, is the stylised design of a Bollenhut, the traditional headgear with red woollen pompoms of the area.
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They started with the deforestation of the Black Forest which slowly changed the look of the mountains and valleys with the dark firs we know today. In truth, the switch from mixed forest to fir forest was completed in the 19th century only.
Linked to Cee’s Midweek Madness: Pick a topic from my photo.
The Black Forest is almost synonymous with dark fir forests but its highest mountain, the Feldberg, is curiously bare. It is the highest mountain in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and the highest in Germany outside of the Alps. It’s the top of the non-Alpine mountain tops, so to speak. And this isn’t even the actual top (but close). I haven’t got pictures of the actual top as 2 years ago, when we had endless, warm, dry days towards the end of summer, we managed to pick the one weekend when it was cold, miserable, foggy, raining and cold. I went to the top (there is a kind of cairn marking it) but I didn’t take my camera because it would have been either drowned or blown away.
This is my twenty-ninth square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.
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