Right in the middle of Germany there is a place that you can
recognise by the weather: usually it's rain. And only the area around
Aachen, close to the Luxemburg and Belgium Borders might be able to
compare with the

Sauerland.

Besides rain the Sauerland is covered with trees. Unfortunately
there is no great variety in trees, because industry needs wood to
grow quickly. So, in particular you will find large areas with spruce,
pine, larch or fir.

Apart from forstrially used areas there are - of course - very nice
woodlands to wander around in. You will find beech, oak, birch, maple,
chestnut, alder, linden or plane-tree, to name only some.

To be fair there are of course meadows, caves, lakes and sometimes you
will even find little dwellings or smaller cities.

There have been some previous guide entries about this lovely area,
dealing with
Trecker and only with Trecker,
Olsberg and only with its unevitable property of
beeing located in the Sauerland and a
pretty entire but despairing description of
Bamenohl.

Let's start a list of more of those

Lovely Villages and Towns:

• Schalksmühle, for example, south of Hagen, or more
  south of Dortmund for those who are better familiar with the German
  football map. About 12000 "Sauerländer" are calling
  Schalksmühle their hometown, including the
  author of this not yet completed entry.

• Of course, I will provide a link to
  Bamenohl in this list once
  more.

• Please give your contributions, containing for example the
  town of Lüdenscheid,

• or maybe about the village of Finnentrop.

Germany and Sauerland

As a matter of fact the Sauerland is neither a state nor a
nation of its own. It is rather part of the area "Westfalen", which
is part of the Bundesland "NRW". Those of you, dear readers, who
have been carefully reading this article, have latest by now
unraveled the mystery that the Sauerland is finally part of Germany,
a link to which can be followed by clicking
here.

Although not a nation, there is some kind of

National Anthem of the Sauerland,

the text of which is given (in German), below.

Though completed now, there is no guarantee for correct
spelling. Translation desired?...;.)

You may want to take a look at a

new version with new lyrics...

Neighbourhood of the Sauerland

Taking a not so close look at a map of Germany, you can find
some areas - lovely as well - close to the Sauerland, such as
the Bergisches Land to the west,and
others.

To be continued.

Related h2g2 Link: The German School