Winter in East Wuerttemberg

Winterly Ambience: A Wayside Corss near Aalen-Unterkochen

East Wuerttemberg is sometimes called "Swabish Siberia" because it has a much less mild climate since the area around Stuttgart, the Fils Valley, the Rems Valley and some other areas which together are called the Unterland where also the famous Wuerttembergian Wine is grown. On the other hand the westmore parts of the Swabish Alb are quite a bit colder since they are situated much higher.

Großkuchen on the Haertsfeld in Winter

But sometimes we have really cold winters like the ones of 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 and the Haertsfeld and the Albuch see longer periods with snow cover almost every year.  I remember a snowy day when I was out hunting boar on the Haertsfeld with a pack of other hunters. We had been invited by the local forest authority and after the hunting was over we were sitting in an inn.

Winter in the woods of the Haertsfeld

Some of the other hunters got a mobile call from a friend in Stuttgart area and  having finished it he told us that his friend had been complainig about "lots of snow".  We asked him whether he had asked his friend how much snow they had there and he told us that they had a a bit more than one inch of it down their. We heartily laughed about the "lots of snow" in Stuttgart since when we had been out there the snow already had been about one foot high or even more and it still was snowing so that the ones of us who got 4WDs were quite glad. 

Although we often have cold winters even with much snow we quite seldom have a really White Christmas. Snow and cold typically come by the end of december or in january here.  Actually it's cold here in my area and we have a bit snow but weather report says it will become warmer and start to rain. So Chances for a White Christmas are not to good..