Snow Scenes

Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace and the surrounding park was covered in a blanket of snow as children gathered to build snowmen.

The chilly temperatures give rise to warm feelings in Essen, where a love-bitten German was inspired to etch his message in a snow-encrusted car window.

Paul and Joana take advantage of the snowfall during school vacation. Braced for the minus temperatures, the two children from Hamburg make snow angels in one of the city's parks.

Skiers hit the slopes of Feldberg in the Black Forest.

A German family walks across the freshly fallen snow on the Seebrücke pier in the northern German Baltic Sea resort of Timmendorfer Strand.

The shepherd Dieter Lingnau and his dog Dolli herd sheep on a pasture near Frankfurt Oder in eastern Germany.

Walkers stroll through the snow and fog on the mountain Schauinsland near Freiburg in the Black Forest.

A snow plow clears off the streets near Petersdorf on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea.

A small-gauge train departs the station in Drei-Annen-Hohne in the eastern Harz mountains heading towards Brocken. Downhill skiing and sledding are popular past-times in the region. Germany can be magical in the winter, but will snow fall this year? Click for more of "Christmas past."

The water is icy in Leipzig near the city's war monument.

Street cleaners in Leipzig, in the eastern German state of Saxony, remove freshly fallen snow from the steps of the city's war monument.

Snow covers the trees in front of Berlin's Siegessäule or Victory Column in the Tiergarten park downtown.