World Heritage in Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Thuringia. There are only a few beech forests left in the world that have survived in their untouched state. The author Karl-Heinz Engel has traversed the five beech forest areas in Germany that were added to the World Heritage List in 2011, describing and photographing them to create an impressive portrayal. Follow him into the Grumsiner Forest in Brandenburg, the beech forest areas of the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park in Hesse, Hainich in Thuringia, as well as Jasmund and the Serrahn part of the Müritz National Park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Discover the biodiversity in these centuries-old forests and the beauty of the trees. They present an impressive chapter of natural history.