This season holds symbolism in German culture.
By Peter Pabisch
Autumn does not only happen in Germany of course, as it occurs around the entire northern hemisphere where similar conditions of weather and temperature delight people in equal fashion simultaneously. One is reminded of the change of color as leaves lose their green hue to offer an enthralling tapestry of all shades of yellow, orange, and red. Even some needle trees such as the larch have a yellowish touch when changing colors. The band of wooded areas around the northern hemisphere can be so fascinating that country borders mean nothing compared to the unlimited autumn lighting that takes place from the Alps and the Carpathian mountains to Scandinavia and eastward through Siberia’s tundra and the mountain ranges of Central Asia crossing the Bering Strait and making its way from the Hudson Bay and the Appalachians or the Rockies via the Southwest into Central South America. The warmer the climate, the higher the wooded stretches of moderate weather near the summit zones.
The similarities of other biological features can be observed in natural occurrences such as the flight of the swallows southward around mid-August or the beginning of cooler temperatures in Europe as well as the Rocky Mountains in Colorado or New Mexico. To restrict autumn admiration just to Germany would seem rather narrow minded yet there is a certain magic in the emergence of fall features here where the leaf colors remain more in the yellow and light-brownish realms and cannot compete with the bright red colors of East or Midwest America. Germany’s wooded area (about one third) strikes the viewer in its sizeable extension. It’s unbelievable that a country the size of New Mexico and over 80 million inhabitants would have so much woodland.
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