Deutschland von Oben

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Germany's cities light up when you look at our country from the satellite. But between the optical nodes of densely populated areas are the much larger dark areas, where the fox and hare say goodnight. From a bird's eye view you can see that Germany is indeed a developed country, a lot more but one of the most forested countries in Europe - almost a third of our country is covered by forest. And trees mean we obviously have always been more than most of our neighbors. Thus, the camera floats for the second episode of the new season "Germany from above" on the tops of oaks and pines, the epitome of the German version of romance. And higher up, above the tree line, we look down into the area of ??the ibex and chamois at 2500 meters, at breakneck steep ridges and ravines on Geißhorn and foghorn in the Alps, Oberstdorf. And in the remote national park Berchtesgaden the "Germany from the top" team accompanying special helicopters that carry trees infested by bark beetles through the air from steep slopes. A dispute, because the National Park you really want to leave everything to the natural processes - but then has to help. Even the last 500 wild horses in Germany, who live only thirty miles from the mega-metropolis Ruhr removed Merfelder break is helped indirectly if once a year, the young stallions from the herd is out caught, what is done to avoid inbreeding. The clash of nature and heavy industry, is typical of wilderness and high-tech industry for the nation of Germany: Four-fifths of our land, forests, moorland or farmland. However, extensive wild are found only rarely - along the former inner-German border or in the inaccessible mountainous regions. We live in a country where the opposites in a confined space are amazing: the moonscape craters of lignite mining in Lusatia, whose infinite dumps are measured using laser scanning from the helicopter, the wine harvest in the bizarre terraces of the extinct volcano Kaiserstuhl deep in southern Baden, to to the largest heavy metal festival in the world in the pastures of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein Kuhdorfs. In 1800 inhabitants there every year 75 000 concert-goers. The traffic chaos at departure and arrival days will be monitored from a helicopter as well as the largest tent city in Germany, the loud there every year for three days produced. In sharp contrast, there are other events that take place over our heads: The Cranes einschweben over the Elbe river and only 100 000 wild geese arrive at the Ems estuary and in the Lower Rhine, when the young ones of the season for their first departure to the south gather or make the foal of the wild horses in their first steps into Dülmen life is a spectacle that one has never seen before from the air. "Germany from above" shows it, as well as native wild animals that are so invisible that they can follow only by satellite from space - such as the lynx in the resin or in the Bavarian Forest. "Germany from the top" also accompanied the team of the German Center for Aerospace in Oberpfaffenhofen at the start of one of the satellites that make our complex life on the ground a little easier: Without satellites, there would be no GPS navigation, no high-tech espionage, no Satellite television. And none of the animation in "Germany from above." And it is not those predictions, under which we suffer Germans would most like: the weather. Over 2,000 stations are in Germany - but also on the ground. The second highest of them is on the Wendelstein, one of the highest jobs in Germany. Radiant sunshine finds Claudia Hinz, the weather woman from Wendelstein boring.