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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 383961, member: 2844&quot;]You&#039;re right, due to intensive logging there was almost no Black Forest left to go to in the 19th century. The region was devastated.</p><p>What you see now is a result of planting of spruce in the late 19th century, like a mono-culture. Which is why the Black Forest is a bit boring, really. The original forest was mixed, just like any other forest in comparable circumstances in Europe.</p><p>To supplement their meagre income, the people of the Black Forest sold carvings to traders to be sold in places like nearby Baden Baden.</p><p>In the 19th century Baden Baden was called &#039;the Summer Capital of Europe&#039;, because most royalty went there for the healing properties of the baths. And to be seen, of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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