Stockelsdorf
13.5 ha
Etablierter Laubwald aus den späten 1990er-Jahren — mit ihm haben wir angefangen.
Read moreNatural Forest Restoration
Woods that will outlast us.
We acquire forest land in Germany and restore it naturally. For the long term. Together.
Our mandate
What drives us
Close to nature
We rely on natural forest development rather than plantations or monocultures. The Lübeck Model is our forestry benchmark.
Long-term thinking
Forests need time. Our participation structure is designed for decades – not short-term returns.
Openness
We talk about the forest together. Everyone involved learns what happens at the same time and on equal terms – no gap between those who know and those who are asked.
"We do this alongside everything else, with the means we have and the weight it deserves."
By the numbers
Forest area
across three sites in northern Germany
Forests in Germany
Stockelsdorf, Kirch-Jesar, Alt-Zachun/Hoort
Forestry benchmark
The Lübeck Model
Since the 1990s, the city of Lübeck has demonstrated how close-to-nature forest management works: no clear-cutting, no pesticides, no monocultures. Instead: natural regeneration, minimal intervention, forest as forest. This principle is our forestry foundation.
More about the conceptThe forest knows what it needs. We give it space.
Get involved
If forests interest you, write to us.
Waldfreunde is a group of friends and acquaintances who buy forests together and tend to them for the long term. Involvement happens through conversation, not through a form. Those who are interested simply write to us – we work out the rest together.