But no matter how many autobahn dissect the country, the skies offer so many more transit roads. Millions of migrating birds, from the reed sparrows to the wild geese, from the storks to the cranes, fly on their pathways in spring and autumn over the German sky. Some of them spend their summer and start a family in Germany, others are just transiting from Central Africa to Scandinavia or vice versa.

„Germany From Above“ flies with cranes along part of their migrating route to the South, looks into the nest of storks in the north German village of Bergenhusen and follows them in their summer thermic trips in the Elbe Valley. Elaborate animations based on real GPS data show in satellite pictures the routes followed by migrating birds.

However birds have to the share airspace with air traffic. No other airspace is full of invisible flying routes and corridors like the German skies. Animations based on real GPS data show the constant traffic of the biggest air road-network and the starting and landing bustle in the two German biggest airports: Frankfurt and Munich.

Even when we fly from Vladivostok to London we fly over Germany. How does the air traffic control centre in Frankfurt monitor the restless air traffic on the upper floor above our heads? And how does Germany look like from the small cockpit of the phantom jet of lieutenant-colonel Jochen Ruff-Stahl, when he starts off the airforce center of Wittmund in East Frisia to train in supersonic speed?

Other unsuspected people take advantage from the bird´s perspective too. Farmer Clement Sjöberg in Schleswig-Holstein let satellite signals direct his corn harvester and tractors, because the machine can crop the fields with absolute precision. The Elbe Sandstone Mountains are measured with modern laser technology from an aircraft in order to produce 3D models of possibly the most bizarre landscape in Europe. Archaeologist Martin Schaich too measures with high tech lasers the limes, the longest soil monument in Europe, by flying over it on an ultralight aircraft.

Besides all the traffic routes across and over Germany, when flying over the country you can also enjoy unexpected surprises: the almost uninhabited landscapes that defy access. In the Alps in Berchtesgaden some remote lodges can get their supply only via helicopter. From the can of beer to the roof gutter: everything has to be transported with an helicopter. In some remote areas on the Central German Uplands, in the Elbe Valley or in the Alps, Germany almost looks like Canada, New Zealand or the tundra. Golden eagles find shelter here. Sky is one of them. Fly with him and look with him over a country that from his perspective appears very mysterious and foreign.