Rotes Moor in first Snow

For many years now we have been visiting the Rhön Mountains, which are only a 1 hour drive from our home. A little higher up near the Hochrhönstrasse, a road that takes you right across the center high region of the Rhön, there is the „Red Moor“ / Rotes Moor – a rised bog that develops over thousands of years, and which has for many years been exploited (like everywhere in Germany and Europe), drained out to harvest peat and gain dry land for farming. Fortunately this trend has been stopped a few decades ago, and a few moors have been saved, re-naturalized and turned into protected nature reserves. Like the Red Moor. (Nearby a little higher up is also the Black Moor).

Now we have been there many times, in various seasons, but two weeks ago the weather forecast indicated early snow in the Rhön mountains, and the webcams confirmed it, so I quickly grabbed my camera gear and went there in the middle of the week for a few hours of morning nature walking and photography…

For more photographs (in different seasons and in bigger resolution) please visit the „Rotes Moor“ gallery…