Pests and climate change leave their mark – the forest, the eternal place of desire for Germans, always has new problems and reforestation is laborious. Why spruce in particular can help.
Bielefeld’s Kapellenberg provides plenty of motifs for romantic painters. On the right is the mystical stone chapel, to which a mossy staircase leads up. Next to it is the enchanted forest cemetery. The spring sun shines through the beech leaves and turns the air green. The rain releases aromas, resinous, spicy, intense. They are chemical substances from the plants, terpenes, that penetrate the lungs and skin and make you happy.