Teufelsmoor

Northern Germany was flattened out by a series of glacial periods. This accounts for the lowlands that cover much of the area north of the Harz mountains. The north, nevertheless, can amaze the traveler with fantastic landscapes as can be seen in the photograph above. This is the "Teufelsmoor", literally the devil's marshland near the town of Worpswede, once an artist colony that was home to artists such as poet Rainer Maria Rilke and painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. Northern cities such as Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen are steeped in history and offer plenty of entertainment to the curious visitor.