Our place

Wooden sauna hut on a hillside in our blooming garden.
Garden sauna in spring
The rising sun peeking over the mountain, with dew transforming into mist or clouds.
View of the rising sun from the retreat center
A bowl filled with fresh apple, banana, strawberry, blueberries, and grapes, topped with roasted almond slices and edible flowers.
Breakfast fruit salad
Our meadow, blooming with local flora, offers a view that stretches all the way to the mountains.
Our flower meadow
A creek running through the wooded part of our garden.
Spring creek in our garden
Chairs set in a circle around the fire pit, with a stunning mountain view and a clear blue sky overhead.
Fire pit summer
A bowl containing chickpeas, lentils, feta cheese, and fresh dandelion leaves.
Legume salad with dandelion
The Casa with musical instruments and floor chairs arranged in a circle around a round table with a crystal.
Music circle
Two blue chicory flowers with a bee about to land on them.
Chicory with bee
Pieces of our creamy vanilla-citrus cheesecake, with a middle layer of apple compote from our garden, adorned with a delicate flower.
Vanilla-citrus cheesecake
A bright yellow brimstone butterfly sitting on a vividly pink lathyrus flower.
Brimstone butterfly feeding
The floor of the Casa, made of local Douglas fir castle floorboards, the longest of which measure 10 meters.
The elegant flooring of the Casa
A gold-colored birch against a silver sky, with a brightly green meadow in front of a dark mountain and other golden trees in front of dark coniferous trees.
Autumn contrasts
Freshly baked banana bread squares garnished with rose leaves.
Banana bread
View with colorful trees in the garden and on the mountain, with a partially cloudy sky above.
Autumn colors
A peach-colored sky over the mountains and a colorful serviceberry in the foreground.
Autumn sunset
The retreat center nestled in a snowy landscape, with a clear blue sky above a forested mountain.
View of our house on a winter day
Squares of freshly baked vegetable pie with leeks and bell peppers, garnished with herbs.
Fresh from the oven
A winter scene with the sun shining in a blue sky, melting snow on the trees and mountains.
View from one of our terraces
Cut firewood neatly stacked in a shed, with an axe hanging next to it.
Firewood
The sun setting behind the hill near our house, with a willow casting a shadow on the snow.
Sunset garden
A ceramic baking dish with roasted carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and chick peas, topped with fresh herbs.
Roasted vegetables
Chairs arranged in a circle around our fire pit, with the afternoon sun shining through the trees on the slope.
Afternoon sun
Green lettuce in a clear glass bowl, topped with roasted almond slivers and lightly drizzled with balsamic cream.
Freshness in a bowl
Our garden featuring a path through the meadow beneath a mirabelle tree, on a sunny summer day.
Mirabelle tree
The view from the retreat center with the sunrise painting the sky in lilac and peach hues over the tranquil landscape.
Sunrise view
The view from the retreat center, featuring a rainbow, a partially cloudy sky, and surrounding mountains bathed in pastel colors.
Rainbow

Our surroundings

A curvy gravel road, surrounded by coniferous and deciduous trees and lined with low-growing vegetation, including ferns, illuminated by bright sunlight beneath a cloudy sky.
Summer walk
On a winter day, the sun casts golden light through the clouds, illuminating a snowy meadow bordered by golden larches, set against a dark mountain covered in coniferous forest.
Golden larches
Beech trees with golden leaves and dark trunks, lining a forest path.
Forest walk
A wooden hut on a meadow at the edge of a forested mountain, with grass and trees coated in hoarfrost.
Hoarfrost
A landscape bathing in the orange light of the setting sun, featuring a meadow in the foreground with its blooming grasses, against a backdrop of mountains with meadows and forest.
Summer sunset
Rock formation covered with moss, ivy, and leafless shrubs and trees along a forest path.
Enchanted forest
Two beech trees standing close together, seemingly embracing, with sunlight caressing their green leaves.
Hugging beeches
A typical view in our surroundings: a meadow bordered by various trees, with mountains layered in the background.
Day in late summer
Silky sunlight filtering through thin clouds and valley fog, casting an almost black-and-white effect on the meadow bordered by trees.
Meadow in winter
A view of mountains showcasing atmospheric perspective, set against a vibrant orange sky.
Winter sunset
A forest gravel road on a sunny day, flanked by yellow broom in full bloom.
Spring walk
A dramatic mountain view beneath a cloudy lilac sky, with a few dark coniferous trees framing the foreground.
Evening walk
A devotional cross on a moss-covered rock wall along the path to the 'Our Lady' pilgrimage chapel.
Hörnleberg Pilgrimage
Black Forest mountain path near the retreat center, lined with tall coniferous trees.
Coniferous trees
A classic view of the Black Forest, one that can be enjoyed time and again on a walk near our house, with coniferous trees and forested mountains.
Mountain view
A man sitting on a bench in the sun, overlooking Simonswald Valley.
Enjoying the view
A Black-veined White butterfly feeding on a deep-red Sweet William flower.
Black-veined white
The setting sun casting a pastel hue over the Black Forest near our retreat center.
Evening forest