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  • Transhumance in Germany

    by Rainer Luick

    Three main types of mobile livestock systems may be distinguished: nomadism, transhumance and the alp-system. Focussing on transhumance there is only one region where a genuine system has ever developed in Germany.

    This is the Swabian-Franconian transhumance, which involved sheep in the federal states of Baden-Wrttemberg and Bavaria ...

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Date: 2026/02/06
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