Tour Report: The Theater of Nature

At the beginning of April 2020, Germany was in the middle of the first CoViD lockdown. However, our need for wild garlic did not want to be subordinated to this regulation, so we set off to our traditional collection point in defiance of death, so to speak.

From the end of February to the end of April (depending on when the flowering season begins) you can harvest fantastic wild garlic around the then abandoned open-air stage - there are fields of it there! And in the end, it's only about an hour's drive through the beautiful northern German countryside.

So we set off and parked the car in the legal parking lot, which was also used by other collectors. However, we must have had a good day because there was very little going on. We met the occasional walker and a few wild garlic collectors, so we had our peace and quiet when we finally entered the deserted open-air stage.

I can't help myself - even though the motif is the same every time, it's a little different every time - be it the weather, the light or the amount of plants that have spread out between the rows of seats.

So of course I took a few pictures. The area is now in use again - but I'll report on that in the next post from this location - so it may take a while ;)

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Tour Report: The Theater of Nature

I had seen a few photos of this abandoned theater before, and when in March of 2019 the opportunity came up to visit this place during a short tour of the area, of course we took it! It is more or less a public place, and there is still hope among the people that it will be able to open it again at some point in the future.

There are parking places nearby, and there were many other people around, mostly to collect wild garlic which grows there in ample amounts. So we just had to unpack our cameras and take photos - there were no fences that we had to climb over, and no other things that might keep us from taking photos.

Solely the abandoned café right next to the theater was locked and equipped with video surveillance - a clear sign that someone still want to reopen the place. We could see through that the café was completely empty, so it wasn't interesting to photograph, and we focused on the theater - and on picking wild garlic :)

We took home an amount large enough to make a lot of delicious cream cheese - and we've been doing that every year since!

To find out about the history of this place and to check out all the photos, click the button below.