As the old forester explained, he would be safer with soldiers than walking through the bombed town without protection.

The old forester's lodge was demolished in 1960 and, in 1969, a new barracks was built for the East German border troops.

"Aye," muttered Dywen, the old forester.

Dywen, the gnarled old forester who liked to boast that he could smell snow coming on, sidled closer to the corpses and took a whiff.

The old forester peered down suspiciously.

Alte Försterei (old forester's house)

An old forester taught me that.

"The wood's too silent," the old forester was saying.

On the Cecilienhöhe near Bad Nenndorf, at the picnie area of Lauenau-Feggendorf and southwest of the old forester's lodge at Köllnischfeld are several examples of the rare, native dwarf beech (Süntelbuche).