オーバーラウターバッハの天然記念物・トップ18

Here in the Bienwald forest, where the Schaidt-Lauterburg road crosses the Aschbach stream, a draw well has stood since ancient times: the Hirschbrunnen (Deer Well). It was fitted with a roof in 1912. The well was essential for watering teams of oxen and horses along what was then an important thoroughfare. Today, it is furnished with benches and a tabletop made from a section of the nearly 300-year-old Aschbach oak tree and serves as a rest area.

When the water level of the Rhine is low, you can walk to these islands on dry feet.

From October 2014, the tomato islands were redesigned for around two million euros. The construction work was part of a nature conservation project that was partly financed with funds from the EU funding program LIFE+. A ditch was created at Auer Köpfle through which Rhine water is channeled into the Illinger Altrhein. In addition, two channels were created along the right bank of the Rhine, for which the existing groynes were divided. The excavated material was used to raise the islands. The construction work created three islands that provide gravel breeding areas that are safe from predators such as foxes. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomateninseln

This oak was most likely "planted during the Thirty Years' War, which ravaged Germany from 1618 to 1648". Source (quoted verbatim): Information board on site

One of numerous ponds and lakes along the Schaidter Westwallweg. With a bit of luck you can see gray herons here.

Just 200 years ago there were numerous islands on the Rhine that kept changing when the water was high. With the regulation of the Rhine, however, these were largely lost and with them breeding areas for various waterfowl. As part of the LIFE+ project "Rheinauen bei Rastatt", three islands were created at the mouth of the Illinger Altrhein, on which waterfowl can stay, search for food and breed undisturbed. http://www2.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/public/abt2/dokRepository/upload/10_12/919001000152/nreservat_auer_k_pfle_-_illinger_altrhein_-_motherner_w_rth_-_umgestaltung_kohlkopf_und_tomateninsel__infotafel_.pdf

the southern Murg side (corresponds to this highlight) is the beautiful side of the Murg estuary. You can only get here on foot or by bike. There is also a road on the other side of the Murg.

At this point / I would like to quickly / say something about the source (whereby it corresponds to the art of poetry / if this 'source' is a 'well'): To quote the incomparable humorist Heinz Erhardt (1909 - 1979), who was known to a wide audience for his word jokes and "Noch'n poem", with a short quatrain: "There is certainly much beauty in on the element, the wet. Because you can drink the water. But you can - also leave it." (H.Erhardt)