Photos by Fred Hahn (7) - Landschaftsfotos.eu

In the distance, you can see from the Wurmberg to the Kassel area, here slightly right of center on the horizon the broad ridge of the basalt table mountain Hoher Meißner in Hesse, about 80 km away; Sun., 14.02.2021 in the late afternoon... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

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In the distance, the entire Thuringian Forest mountain range on the horizon and in the valley in front, against the backdrop of the South Harz, Braunlage; slightly right of center on the horizon, the distinctive shape of the Großer Inselsberg, over 100 km away; Sun, 14.02.2021 in the early evening... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 335 1200x800 Px, 19.02.2021 

View from the Wurmberg towards the Brocken in the early evening of 14.02.2021; on the left you can see the huge Telekom antenna tower, to the right of it the tower of the "Brockenherberge" hotel, next to it the weather station, all three buildings still from GDR times, when the entire summit area was closed to visitors... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 367 1200x800 Px, 19.02.2021 

Panoramic long-distance view from the Wurmberg to the southeast; in the center of the image on the horizon beyond the Harz Mountains, the Kyffhäuser Mountains, to the right of it runs the delicate line of the Thuringian Forest, which transitions into the Franconian Forest in Bavaria; visibility up to approx. 180 km. The curvature of the Earth can be seen in the distance; evening of 14.02.2021 on the Wurmberg... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 328 1200x800 Px, 19.02.2021 

During the descent from the Wurmberg, golden light from the evening sun falls into the forest; 14.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

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On the way back from Silberteich to Braunlage; on the afternoon of Saturday, 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 311 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

On the way along the Hahnenkleer Forest Road, the view opens up over the South Harz Mountains; shot in the afternoon of 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 316 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

The sunlight sparkles on trees along Hahnenkleer Waldstraße; shot in the afternoon of 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 311 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

On the go on the Hahnenkleer Forest Road; shot in the afternoon of Sat, 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 309 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

On the go on the Hahnenkleer Forest Road; shot in the afternoon of Sat., 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 298 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

Like the light-filled choir of a Gothic cathedral - the sun in the spruce forest; shot in the afternoon of 13.02.2021 in the forest between Braunlage and the Hahnenkleeklippen... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 314 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

Sunlight in the spruce forest; shot in the early afternoon of 13.02.2021 between Braunlage and the Hahnenkleeklippen... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 300 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

The sun is already warming, although this morning we still had -13 degrees in Braunlage; shot on 13.02.2021 on the way between Braunlage and the Hahnenkleeklippen... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 280 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

Forest near Braunlage on the Old Harzburger Road in sunshine; shot around midday on Sat., 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 280 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

The first beautiful sunny day after the winter storm in northern Germany from last weekend: The Rathausallee in Braunlage around noon on Sat., 13.02.2021... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 292 1200x800 Px, 18.02.2021 

View from the Brocken looking south to the Thuringian Forest on the horizon, but the Wurmberg massif looks terrible: lots of reddish-brown discolored dying or dead forest and huge cleared areas due to the hot and too dry summers of recent years; shot in the early evening of 19.08.2020... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz

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View from the Brocken towards the southeast to the Hohneklippen and over the eastern Harz; you can see the massive forest damage on the Hohneklippen, on the Heinrichshöhe (right), and in the eastern Harz. Photo taken in the early evening of 19.08.2020... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz

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View from the Brocken looking north over the so-called "Little Brocken" and Bad Harzburg on the edge of the Harz over the northern Harz foothills; shot in the early evening of 19.08.2020... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz

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View from the Brocken over the Ilse Valley with Ilsenburg on the edge of the Harz Mountains overlooking the northern Harz foreland; one can see the catastrophic forest damage in the northern Harz, while the Brocken primeval forest with its pine-like trees, mostly several centuries old, which have already experienced and survived so much, is obviously not or hardly affected by this forest damage caused by climate change... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz

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Evening mood on the Brocken with a view towards the East Harz; visible are the enormous forest damages on the Hohneklippen. It must be said that everywhere the tree skeletons stand, the new young forest is already growing on the ground. The dying and eventually decaying forest literally prepares the ground for the young forest by fertilizing and deacidifying it... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz

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After sunset at a small rest area near the Green Belt, where the forest still looks roughly the same as it did years ago; shot on 19.08.2020... 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Lower Saxony / Harz

 324 1200x800 Px, 21.08.2020 

"The Nature Its Freedom I", Painting: Oil, Oil Pastel on Cotton + Wood, 2020, 107 x 120 cm 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz, Galleries / Miscellaneous / painted pictures

 434 1184x1040 Px, 15.08.2020 

"The Paradise of the Great Little Things (I)"; painting, first part of a diptych = two paintings belonging together; oil, oil pastel on cotton + wood (frame), 2020, 106.5 x 146 cm; heath landscape on the Brocken with insects, background view over the East Harz to the Hainleite and the Kyffhäuser Mountains in Thuringia 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz, Galleries / Miscellaneous / painted pictures

 527 1200x884 Px, 14.05.2020 

"The Paradise of the Great Little Things," diptych (= 2 related paintings): oil, oil pastel on cotton + wood (frame), 2019 - 2020, twice 106.5 x 146 cm; view from the Brocken to the south and southeast... My commitment to the "unobtrusive" insects that are slowly disappearing. It is alarming how few bumblebees, beetles, butterflies, etc. remain in cultural landscapes. Yet nature is a harmoniously ordered organism; everything, including the small inconspicuous creatures, has its purpose, belongs to our habitat, our basis for life, which we are increasingly destroying... so "Live and let live..." Albert Schweitzer https://www.nationalpark-harz.de/de/kunstkultur/kunst-natur-mensch/natur-mensch-bildergalerie_2020/#gallery-24 
Fred Hahn

Germany / Saxony-Anhalt / Harz, Galleries / Miscellaneous / painted pictures

 555 1199x720 Px, 07.02.2020 