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Dark Season 3: Is there the town “Winden” where the German series takes place?

At the end of 2017 Netflix presented Dark, his first German production that soon became a hit and gained an undisputed place in the international audience.

In fact, there is great expectation for the arrival of the third, and last, season next Saturday 27.

Among other things, Dark proposed a complex plot from a group of families from the village of Winden, Germany, crossed by an unsolved tragedy: the disappearance of two children.

The third and final season of Dark premieres on Saturday, June 27 on Netflix.


In its first two seasons the series revealed that everything is connected to a series of events from 1986, and that the protagonists are immersed in a time loop that goes beyond your understanding.

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Although one of the protagonists is Jonas, the town of Winden has a predominant place in the whole story. There is also the nuclear power plant that, since its creation in the 1950s, generated a series of anomalies that led to an apocalypse, dated June 27, 2020, which various characters try to avoid or directly provoke.

And finally another fundamental place in the series is the forest with the intricate dark caves that are used for time travel.

Because of the importance of this town, many wonder if Winden really exists in real lifeSince they never specify where in Germany they are in the series.

Dark.  Adam Jonas, the protagonist, in its two versions.

Dark. Adam Jonas, the protagonist, in its two versions.


Where is Winden?

The town exists, but it is called Winden in the Elztal and is located in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. However, the determining factor in the series is the forest, but that location is far from there.

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Jantje Friese, one of the creators of the series, told the BBC program RadioTimes that they recorded all the scenes in a forest near Berlin.

Dark time machine that is disputed between the protagonists.

Dark time machine that is disputed between the protagonists.


“Actually, once you leave the city center for a few minutes, Berlin basically becomes a town. We chose several different places: a house here, a house there. But all places are filmed around BerlinFriese recounted.

Therefore, the real place where the Winden Forest was filmed belongs to the municipality of Grünewald, which has an approximate population of just 600 inhabitants, according to records between 2016 and 2017. Time travel happens there.

Lastly, the high school in Winden is one of the main locations in the series. But they never mention the name of the school, who is also in real life in Berlin and is called Reinfelder-Schule.

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