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The Spree Forest

45 min

North Friesland

45 min

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The Black Forest

45 min

Western Pomerania coast

45 min

The Berchtesgaden Alps

45 min

Saxon Switzerland

45 min

Wild Germany

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The Black Forest

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 20, 2011

The Black Forest is known worldwide for its cuckoo clocks and Black Forest cake. But the region has much more to offer: in the mountain forests there is silver fir, up to 60 meters high - a European record. One last impressive giant tree in the northern Black Forest is the 230-year-old, so-called grandfather fir, which towers over all the treetops in the area with a trunk circumference of 1.65 meters and a height of 45 meters. The capercaillie lives hidden in sparse old growth. The extremely shy birds are threatened with extinction due to the destruction of their habitat, climate change and growing tourism. A few lynxes and wildcats from the neighboring Vosges and Swiss Alps have recently been sneaking through the Black Forest again. Eradicated here in the last century, the two cat species return to their ancestral habitat almost unnoticed. There are also alpine animals and plants in the Black Forest that survived the Ice Age at rough altitudes for thousands of years.

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Wild Germany

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The Black Forest

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 20, 2011

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