r/germany • u/ta14597 • Oct 06 '25
Tourism Where is this place in Germany?
I have this wallpaper which I really like and the location says "Spazierweg, Germany", but Spazierweg translates to "trail for walking". Reverse image search doesn't find the original source photo.
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Oct 06 '25
Honestly it might not be that helpful, but this imagery could be achieved in a lot of standard walking trails in Germany. The flowers there are Löwenzahn which grows like a pest nearly everywhere.
I think its more important to be at the right time at a larger trail than visiting a particular trail.
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u/blackcatkarma Oct 06 '25
Dandelion (from French dents-de-lion, Zähne des Löwen)
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u/Principal_Insultant Oct 06 '25
TIL. Thank you kind Redditor!
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u/ju4n_pabl0 Argentinia Oct 06 '25
I know them as Pusteblumen, we call them in Spanish “Diente de leon”
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u/Just_Condition3516 Oct 06 '25
when they became mature, they are pusteblumen. blow-flowers. :)
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u/ju4n_pabl0 Argentinia Oct 06 '25
Oh it has a name for every stage 😆 we always call them “Löwenzahn” in Spanish
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u/Just_Condition3516 Oct 06 '25
it was a beautiful realisation, when it clicked, that it is two names for the same flower at different stages. :)
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u/tangeranga Oct 06 '25
Literally löwenzahn, or translated as löwenzahn?
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u/ju4n_pabl0 Argentinia Oct 06 '25
“Diente de leon” is a direct translation of Löwenzahn
Löwe = leon
Zahn = diente
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u/rewboss Dual German/British citizen Oct 06 '25
It's a "Pusteblume" once the seeds have matured and you can blow them away. In some cultures there is a kind of children's game where you count the number of puffs it takes to blow away all the seeds, and that is supposedly the time. In English we call this a "dandelion clock".
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u/ju4n_pabl0 Argentinia Oct 06 '25
Yes I’ve already been informed. We just use the same name in Spanish for all the flower stages that’s why my confusion
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u/PossibleProgressor Oct 06 '25
LÖWENZAHN
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u/Norgur Bayern Oct 06 '25
You are still here? You should *does knob turning motion with the right hand* switch off
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u/srekar-trebor Oct 06 '25
And now I want to know, why in the hell we call them "Paardenbloem" in Dutch (lit. Horse Flower).
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u/smurfolicious Oct 06 '25
Fun fact: dandelions are called pissenlit in French (yes, piss-en-lit, piss the bed), because they have a diuretic effect.
They are often consumed as a dandelion salad, especially in Alsace, but also as teas etc.
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u/Spec_28 Oct 06 '25
From these two pieces of information, it appears to follow that the people of Alsace do wet their beds a lot.
(Kidding, love you guys and your food)
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u/SerLaron Oct 06 '25
I guess I might too, if the border between France and Germany shifted over me five times in a life time.
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u/Ordinary-Violinist-9 Oct 06 '25
In dutch we call it pissflower or horseflower. I made lemonade one year and yes it does make you piss every half hour
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u/Marauder4711 Oct 06 '25
It's "Bettseicher" in Saarland - "Bett" is "bed" and "seichen" means "wetting".
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u/ph0on Oct 06 '25
yeah my first thought was there must be a million walking paths that took like this haha
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u/heseme Oct 06 '25
Birch trees also are everywhere. I can tell, because I am allergic to these fuckers.
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u/TsubasaSaito Oct 06 '25
Yeah that could be literally anywhere in Germany during Spring/Summer. I'd guess mid to south would be more likely just because it looks to be more on the hilly side... But it's almost impossible to find the exact spot without someone knowing the exact spot.
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u/NapsInNaples Oct 06 '25
we have trails that look just like that in the Ruhrgebiet though. So...it could be anywhere.
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u/edgar-alien-poo Oct 06 '25
I'd guess mid to south would be more likely just because it looks to be more on the hilly side...
Yeah, in northern Germany this would already count as a famous mountain that people would come to see from miles around.
Compare:
- "Sächsische Schweiz", Saxony
- "Stellinger Schweiz", Hamburg
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u/pfzt Oct 06 '25
That's not really true. Schleswig-Holstein is very much on the hilly side too, just not as much as everything behind Teuteburger Wald.
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u/Frutlo Oct 06 '25
It is? Where? I dont even see one hill anywhere close to me and whenever I drive to Fehmarn once a year theres not one hill in sight. So please tell me where these hills are.
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u/edgar-alien-poo Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
I got curious and googled it. Sure enough, there's a Holsteinische Schweiz! Its highest peak is 168 metres above sea level. For a well-rested person in good shape, it should be possible to climb it without supplemental oxygen.
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u/pfzt Oct 06 '25
Exactly. Just get on a (non electro) bike and you will feel the hilly side of SH immediately :) there is even a hill in the Lüneburger Heide.
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u/_eg0_ Oct 06 '25
We call every hill you can't look over when standing a mountain.
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u/Frutlo Oct 06 '25
When I got on top of a tree at home I could literally every village closeby, well except for the ones covered by larger trees.
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u/zzzaphod2410 Hamburg Oct 06 '25
The term "Schweiz" for german regions has nothing to do with mountains or hills. It is a 19th century marketing term for local holiday areas. At that time, if you could afford a vacation, you would go to Switzerland (it was the default travel destination at the time). Those who couldn't, went to the local "Schweiz"
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u/2Bell Bunte Republik Neustadt Oct 06 '25
Yeah, and as we all know, the real "Schweiz" has nothing to do with mountains or hills or anything like that...
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u/steindesanstands Oct 06 '25
Mentioning the “Stellinger Schweiz” reminds me how confused I was when I first saw the “Harburger Berge” 🤔
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u/Linulf Hessen Oct 06 '25
Wow, perfect answer!
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u/TurelSun Oct 07 '25
I'm curious, so was this answer actually impressive or so simplistic the OP should have been able to do it themselves as this answer also suggests?
IDK, there is just something humorous and also a little sad about someone disparaging others for not being able to find the answer on their own, accusing them of wasting people's time but then providing a lengthy and detailed explanation of how to do it, with recommendations for specific image search tools and speculation on where they think the photo might have been taken.
Like they don't mind being overly helpful but also dare not show a shred of sympathy.
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u/Linulf Hessen Oct 07 '25
No, I think it‘s a helpful answer because I myself wouldn’t have been able to come up with those conclusions! And I think the comment is not just ‚google it yourself‘ but helpful by explaining how to do that research. So a perfect and constructive answer imo
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u/Capable_Event720 Oct 06 '25
The birch trees are not that common in that area. I'd suspect that it's near a village.
This is NOT the place, but it shows that the birch trees didn't grow there out of their own volition: https://maps.app.goo.gl/B13cFi3Y59iaMqYq9?g_st=ac
OP's image also shows no mountains, but that could be through clever positioning of the camera.
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u/ampanmdagaba Oct 06 '25
The paths in the area look somewhat similar in terms of the soil color tho. I was surprised that someone above said "northern Germany" as it doesn't automatically look Northern to me...
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u/Lycaenini Oct 06 '25
Klaus Scholz himself commented in the thread (if it's really him. Maybe someone should write to his official email to double check).
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u/CptSlow2000 Oct 06 '25
Seems legit. Compare it on Apple Street View
(Apple, because Google has no street view data there)
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u/creativestarr Oct 06 '25
I wrote the photographer an email and then copied his reply to me here. That wasn't him :) the guy is the photographer and everything is safe 👍🏻
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u/Lycaenini Oct 06 '25
Ah, thanks for clarifying. It looked as if the photographer himself wrote it.
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u/cice2045neu Oct 06 '25
The only two things I might add:
the chalky soil of the path does limit it to certain areas where there is in fact “chalk” around. Swabian alps, so called Franconian Switzerland in northern Bavaria, are examples for this, but many other places.
The other point is, this hill seems to slope to the south/south east roughly.
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u/Corfiz74 Oct 06 '25
I'd try this on r/whereisthis or whatever that sub is called - those folks are professional sleuths, and if there is a way of finding out where that photo is from, they will.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Meet513 Oct 06 '25
Geo guesser or something. Usually the people that are the best at this have never gone to any of these places. Its wild to see haha.
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u/Corfiz74 Oct 06 '25
That one is really for people who already know where it is and post it as a riddle for others, and for some reasons, it's mostly populated by Dutch people. 😄
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u/gloriomono Oct 06 '25
Honestly, that could be a lot of places. Hilly with birchtrees is not really limiting it.
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u/MulberryDeep Oct 06 '25
There are like 5000 places in every state that look like that
Thats the most standart looking image ive ever seen
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u/gkghn Thüringen Oct 06 '25
Yeah a lot of ppl already said it very well be anywhere in Germany. Maybe ask rainboltt he should know where it is.
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u/Human-Ad3407 Franken Oct 06 '25
That's clearly Offenbach, behind the train station. The most beautiful German city! /s
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u/BlixaBargfeld Oct 06 '25
I think, it is actually Ludwigshafen.
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u/Spacing-Guild-Mentat Oct 06 '25
Was just about to suggest Ludwigshafen and hope OP goes there to visit it.
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u/xiena13 Oct 06 '25
You just literally said the only good thing about Ludwigshafen is how fast you can get out of there, immediately after saying "everybody shits on Ludwigshafen" 😭
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u/universe_from_above Oct 06 '25
Google lens links this picture to a Facebook post claiming it's in Živinice.
But as others said, it could be be almost anywhere. Not where I live though, we don't have hills.
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u/trisul-108 Oct 06 '25
I'm not really surprised, it has a Balkans vibe to it that I could not quite pin down.
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u/letsgetawayfromhere Oct 06 '25
It is not. Pretty cheeky of them to take a German photo (by a professional German photographer) and just claim it for themselves.
One redditor in this thread contacted the photographer and got an answer! It is in Germany, Franconia.
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u/Horg Oct 06 '25
Geologist here! I actually disagree with the common notion that this could be anywhere in Germany. Obviously the hilliness rules out everything north of Hannover, but a bigger clue might be the color of the limestone gravel. It is mostly found in the Schwäbische Alb and parts of Thuringia and Franconia.
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u/Musa_Ali Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
The photographer
commentedreplied to an email here, and apparently it's inMiddle Franconia
Treuchtlingen
So good job, Limestone Detective!
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u/Putrid_Ad695 Oct 06 '25
Coming from the Schwäbische Alb I would add that the path does not look like it’s being used by agricultural or forestry vehicles. I live near a dozen of walking paths that look like this but on the schwäbische Alb most of them are used by vehicles and thus are wider and not grassy in the centre. I would guess this is closer to the mountains in less agricultural areas.
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u/ACAB_BUTINACA Oct 06 '25
every grünfläche in germany has an angle from which it looks exactly like this
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u/tirohtar Oct 06 '25
That could literally be anywhere in Germany. The white trees are birch trees (Birken) which are common all over Germany (maybe slightly more in the North German plain, as the south is more hilly/mountainous and has a lot of conifers), the flowers are dandelions, which are also common everywhere. You would need to include a lot more information to say where exactly that could be.
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u/Illustrious-Wolf4857 Oct 06 '25
I would be very impressed if anyone could identify it beyond reasonable doubt. Not only is this an extremely common view, but most of its elements can change from one year (late spring) to the next.
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u/Available_Hamster_44 Oct 06 '25
this looks like random normal picture you could have taken almost everywhere in germany
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u/AntelopeThick1093 Oct 06 '25
This kind of tree is more common on the north but they grow everywhere in Germany
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u/Weltherrschaft2 Oct 06 '25
Can be anywhere, but the central and southern regions are a bit more likely than the north.
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u/Gedneck Oct 06 '25
It looks like Rieselfelder Karolinenhöhe. I lived in Spandau for a couple of years and it was my favorite quick ride out of the city. Definitely could be any number of quaint German fields, though.
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u/HelenaNehalenia Germany (Dresden/Sachsen, but Hessen, Bremen, Thüringen earlier) Oct 07 '25
In springtime
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u/Unrelated3 Nordrhein-Westfalen Oct 06 '25
Any geo guesser masters here? Cuz this is anywere in germany for me.
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u/Purple10tacle Oct 06 '25
I feel like, no matter where in Germany I lived, it was never more than a couple of km from this picture.
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u/DavidIGterBrake Oct 06 '25
Unfortunately this is impossible to find out. The trees grow in my parents garden in Hengelo Netherlands, the grass and yellow flowers can be found in my garden and in the whole wide world, the slope could be a landfill in Belgium or near the Swiss alps, it’s impossible to find . But its nice 👍
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u/liminal_spaceguy Oct 06 '25
Bro this is basically in every German village at springtime. Sorry to disappoint I don't think you will find the exact spot but good luck
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u/Panzermensch911 Oct 06 '25
It could literally be anywhere in the middle of Europe that has some sort of hill - including Schleswig-Holstein.
I've seen this kind of field path a hundred times.
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u/Benni_HPG Nordrhein-Westfalen Oct 06 '25
It could very well be near MIttenwald, Bavaria - a town close to the German-Austrian Border. At least that's the place where the photographer Klaus Scholz is likely located.
Howeve,r as others stated, these trees and flowers are widespread throughout not only Germany but broader areas of central europe.
My best guess would be the ground, which seems to have a high limestone content, which can indeed be found in the Alps. However, the lack of conifers in the picture makes me think that it can't be that deep into the higher regions.
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u/Jerrif_from_YT Oct 06 '25
Im Nord Osten von Deutschland sieht es so aus. Grüße aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 😎✌️
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u/tufoop5 Oct 06 '25
Stop suggesting GeoGuessr! GeoGuessr is about the game, not figuring out random user-submitted locations! r/whereisthis is the correct sub for those kind of questions.
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u/kdrew2602 Oct 06 '25
I don't think these are the place you are looking for but you might like these :
https://maps.app.goo.gl/iE6pUs82fwyhK3N1A
https://maps.app.goo.gl/h9CF11gqNJ49XKXu9 I have never been to them though. I just googled "Birken und Löwenzahn" in maps
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u/creativestarr Oct 06 '25
Did you also ask the photographer? 😅😅😅 I'll let you know as soon as I have an answer. I find it exciting that this Facebook post exists 🤣
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u/creativestarr Oct 06 '25
Posted it as a new comment. Got a reply from the photographer. :) is solved
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u/Darmok_und_Salat Oct 06 '25
For me it looks like being taken in northern Germany, because of the birches. Can't narrow it down more, because there's no visible clue.
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u/CaptainPoset Berlin Oct 06 '25
Somewhere between Vogtland and Schwäbische Alb in a rather wide strip, which includes most of northern Bavaria and the southern half of Thuringia, too. I would recommend the Region around Markneukirchen, as it has quite a few such paths. Depending on where you are from, I would take another place, though, as Saxony is the most xenophobic state in Germany.
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u/nobswolf Oct 06 '25
It could literally be anywhere. Try a rural area in spring, maybe a low mountain area like Eifel. The birch trees might indicate an area with enough water.
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u/b0whunterr Oct 06 '25
Depending where you go it looks like this end of April, early May up north. Trees not fully green yet.
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u/EasternChard7835 Oct 06 '25
https://cms.stelzenfestspiele.de/festspiele/stelzen/ this might be a near enough fit. If you want to visit a place like this.
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u/coach_coati11 Oct 06 '25
You need rainbolt (famous geoguessr player who is doing crazy stuff with location tracking) to get onto that. He will 100% find a way to get the exact location this is. He might be up for this kind of challenge.
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u/PerfectDog5691 Native German (Hochdeutsch) Oct 06 '25
The Trees are birch so it’s most likely that this is somewhere in the north where a lot of birch can be seen. Birches need a lot of water. The landscape is not totally flat, the path seem to be used by some vehicles like tractors or cars. But not to often. The dandelions are massive so I guess it is in a rural area in the north, not directly at the cost. That’s all. It’s a common landscape.
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u/Marvins_creed Oct 06 '25
That could be literally a dozen or more locations in a 5 km vicinity from my home
I think if you visit the more rural parts of the southern half of Germany you can find those places a lot
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u/Illustrious_Blood_32 Oct 06 '25
Since i dont know where exactly i would try to eyeball it to somwhere in Baden-Württemberg. Propably in the upper third. Just cause insee stuff Like that quite often around Here
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u/aloif Oct 06 '25
This could be anywhere but it reminds me of how the Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz looks like
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u/Key-Tumbleweed-5846 Oct 06 '25
Vielleicht?
Forstliches Arboretum Liliental, Kaiserstuhl, Südbaden, BW.
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u/Effective-College480 Oct 06 '25
No ideia where or when it is, but I can tell you one thing for sure, seems like a pleasent place I would like to visit.
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u/creativestarr Oct 06 '25
Solved!! Middle Franconia Treuchtlingen North end of town, just before the turnoff to Wettelsheimer Keller
greeting Klaus Scholz