マッサーベルクの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ20

This is a special point! Three large river systems meet here. However, this is not unique in Germany. I liked the design of the place.

Nice and attractive right by the parking lot.

Nice little wooden railway. Nice designed

Enough of the pretty pictures and flowery tour descriptions. It has to come out. I've had enough! Today I'm showing a different view of the Thuringian Forest. I'm allowed to do that because I live here. Exemplary for everywhere in my homeland. Today on a tour of the Kleine Hohe Warte. Three forest deserts in just under four kilometers. Heavy forestry machines furrow the forest. Cut clearings, destroy hiking trails and leave devastated areas behind. Wide gravel roads take the 30-ton trucks to the furthest point of the forest for transport. The forest itself and its tourist use are being destroyed. Who wants to walk through mud and furrows? How long will nothing grow on the machine-compacted forest floor? I know this is a commercial forest. But the HOW and HOW MUCH are what make it. Don't forget the WHY? Most of the time it is state-owned forest. The clearings cannot be explained by drought and bark beetle infestation alone. The large-scale deforestation of healthy forests (no protective corridors) and the concerted deforestation campaign that has been going on for several years speak against this. Forests mean money. Today: a lot of money. The country needs nothing more to implement political projects. And politically correct nose-wrinkling in the pleasant stream of opinion is no help here; migration, pandemics and participation in wars demand cold hard cash. And people are watching. I want to shout: "This is our forest! This is also our livelihood! Desecrated and squandered for short-term money-making under the guise of environmental protection. Nothing here is sustainable, nothing is well managed, nothing here makes sense!" I have not found any facts that would make me revise my opinion. Convince me that I am wrong! I am happy to claim the opposite. In the meantime, I am thinking more about a campaign to advise everyone I can reach not to visit the Thuringian Forest. True to the fact that a negative opinion has more impact than nice, cheap words and that things have to get really bad before anything changes. If you don't want to hear that, then you should move on and enjoy the beautiful corners of the Thuringian Forest. There are still plenty of them, of course! But what will it look like here in 1...2 years if these people just carry on like this?!!

Loving designs on the old railway embankment between Schmiedefeld station, Allzunah and Frauenwald.

The Werraquelle is a top excursion destination in the Thuringian Forest, a beautiful restaurant with a large terrace and there is also a petting zoo for children

Nice little children's playground with seating area.

You simply have to visit the Werraquelle once. Super seating with good food, drinks are of course also available. Centrally located and easily accessible, there is a lot to see there. It's really worth it.