Helgoland and the Lange Anna, the Lüneburg Heath, Heidelberg and the Neckar Valley, Lake Starnberg, the Wetterstein Mountains - German landscapes are as diverse as they are extraordinary and characteristic. The renowned landscape historian and ecologist Hansjörg Küster embarks on a journey of discovery, presenting the most beautiful German landscapes. This exploration reveals not only the clearly visible but also the hard-to-discover and even the invisible. While this book addresses geography, it goes beyond that. Landscapes are more; they carry various cultural meanings, have no precisely defined borders, and can be small or large, spectacular or quite ordinary. The focus is on the vast North Sea, the high Black Forest, and the Kaiserstuhl, which, despite its name, is merely a hilly region. The journey takes us with Friedrich Nietzsche into the Bavarian Forest.