Snow in the Steiger

Looking at individuals

Details that otherwise receive little attention

The Steiger appears in different outfits over the course of a year. From spring to summer, autumn to winter: the forest in Erfurt's south is sometimes green, colorful, gray and sometimes white. Especially when it has freshly snowed, the Steiger shows off a very special side. The basic structure of the forest becomes visible through the lack of leaves and the monochrome base coat.

Trees in the snowy Steigerwald Erfurt from a bird's eye view.

It is the individual trees that catch the viewer's field of vision. Details become visible that otherwise receive little attention in the green and gray of the rest of the year.

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Branch with snow in the Steigerwald Erfurt.

Main protagonist of the forest

The forest continues to be a place for leisure, relaxation and sport. These activities also adapt to the conditions of a winter landscape.

Cross-country skiing in the snow Steigerwald Erfurt.

But: This winter landscape makes the individual tree stand out as the “main actor” of the forest. Marked by age, caught in the neighbor's branches - individual fates become apparent here.

Tree kept by another in Steigerwald Erfurt.

No two trees are alike. What we often encounter in summer and autumn as a green entity or colorful forest dissolves in the snow into what makes the forest: the individual tree.

Old oak tree in the Erfurt city forest in the winter snow.

Frozen back to town

Once you start looking, you won't be able to get out of the winter forest any time soon. Stories are told on every corner and fairy-tale characters appear.

Branch of a tree in the Steigerwald Erfurt becomes a fairytale character in winter.

At some point, your feet are frozen, your fingers are numb, you head back to the city. What will he show us next time we visit, this forest with its trees?

Erfurt Cathedral seen from the snowy Steigerwald.

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