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The German Forest (German: Deutscher Wald) was a phrase used both as a metaphor as well as to describe in exaggerated terms an idyllic landscape in German poems, ...
The Kloster Kammer Hannover has 24,400 hectares, the largest German corporate forest. [10] The largest municipal forest owner is the city of Brilon with 7,750 hectares of forest. [11] The private forest in Germany is distributed to almost 2 million owners. The average size of German private forests is 3 hectares.
The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald [ˈʃvaʁt͡svalt] ⓘ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. [1] It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.
The scholar of Germanic religion Jan de Vries noted that placenames such as Frølund (Denmark), and Ullunda, Frösvi, and Mjärdevi (Sweden), in which the name of a deity is compounded with words meaning "grove" or "wood", suggest a continuation of the same practice, but are found almost exclusively in eastern Scandinavia; however, there is a ...
It is possible that the name of the Harz Mountains in Germany is derived from Hercynian, as Harz is a Middle High German word meaning "mountain forest." Also, the Old High German name Fergunna apparently refers to the Ore Mountains and Virgundia (cf. modern Virngrund forest) to a range between Ansbach and Ellwangen.
Subsequent authors, however, have related skōhsl with English "shuck" (from Old English scucca, "evil spirit") and German Scheusal, "monster" (from Middle High German schūsel, though by folk etymology identified with scheuen, "to dread", and -sal, a noun suffix). [3] [4] [5] Parallels have been drawn between the moss people and woodwoses.
Wald is a German surname meaning "forest". Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Wald (1902–1950), Hungarian mathematician of German descent; Carol Wald (1935–2000), American artist; Charles F. Wald (born 1948), American military officer; David Wald, American voice actor; David J. Wald (born 1962), American seismologist; Diane ...
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