Rhön: Land of Open Far

The Rhön is a unique and distinctive, open and wide landscape. Hute trees, small swamp areas and bristle grass turf offer threatened animal and plant species. How farmers and conservationists use and protect this region.

Text: Oliver Abraham

What a view! On the water cap and the nearby stone head hut, on the mountains Schafstein and Milseburg in the distance. As far as the view, so free. And hardly any human work molested the gaze. Not even wind turbines – you usually have to search for it with binoculars. Uncestrying to the horizon. This is unusual in the middle of Germany. I hike across the “Lange Rhön”, a nature reserve in the Bavarian part of the Rhön, and I have the feeling that it is doing this in a savannah – grass to the next crest and beyond. Individual trees such as sculptures. Twisted and bent by the wind, much older than they look like giant bonsai. One can

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