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It is always beautiful to walk along the old dry stone walls and enjoy the view.

Beautiful path below the old vineyard slopes. This now also serves for nature conservation with its dry stone walls.

Here you suddenly feel like you are in the Black Forest: a raised moor with a boardwalk and a small lake. You would hardly expect that in the Schönbuch. It is always fascinating what new things you can discover in this region.

• The Birkensee used to serve as a watering hole for grazing animals. At the beginning of the 20th century, the moor was to be drained and drainage channels were built. The water level sank and the lake shrank. In the 1970s, people thought better of it: because they wanted to preserve the moor, the drainage ditches were filled in again. In the following years, a boardwalk was also built to control the flow of visitors and prevent the many hikers from trampling down large areas of the plants. The Birkensee is about 50 centimeters deep. To the east of the boardwalk, lush heather vegetation develops. Heather and blueberries grow here. To the west of the boardwalk, rushes tower up and peat moss arches up into cushions. The Birkensee would have long since become a birch forest if new trees were not regularly thinned out. • In moors, plant remains are not completely broken down, but are deposited over the years. The typical plant in the moor is peat moss - which can also be found at Birkensee (photo). Peat moss can store a lot of water. There are also plenty of rushes at Birkensee. Moors are divided into lowland moors, raised bogs and intermediate moors. Raised bogs only occur where there is a lot of precipitation, in this country for example in the Black Forest. (Hike "Grünhütte", Wildberg) This is because in raised bogs the subsoil bulges over the years like a watch glass. The plants feed exclusively on rainwater. Lowland moors, on the other hand, are fed by groundwater. At Birkensee we speak of a so-called intermediate moor, and there are also slight bulges here. However, the amount of precipitation in the Schönbuch is too low at around 750 litres of rain per year to feed a real raised bog.

Dry stone walls on the Kapellenberg above Hirschau are beautiful to look at

beautiful romantic path through the gorge

idyllically situated, really has something magical about it

has its own story the town hall in Wendelsheim was built with stones from the quarry