🇩🇪 The cattle breeds of Germany
13 breeds from Germany, best known first, across 13 towns, fairs and pastures.
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreAurochs
The wild ancestor of all domestic cattle, extinct since 1627Wild · Long-horned
🇨🇭 Switzerland and 5 moreSimmental
A large dual-purpose breed from the Swiss Simme valley, red and white with strong growth rates.Taurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreHeck
A German type bred in the 1920s to recreate the extinct aurochsTaurine · Grazing · Cold-hardy
🇨🇭 Switzerland and 5 moreBraunvieh
A large Alpine brown dairy breed from Switzerland, known for its strength and high milk yield.Taurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreGalloway
A polled black beef breed from south-west Scotland with a thick double coatTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreBrown Swiss
A medium-sized American dairy breed descended from the Alpine Braunvieh, kept for high milk yield and cheese-making.Composite · Dairy · Rich milk
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 morePinzgauer
Chestnut Austrian cattle with a broad white stripe along the back and bellyTaurine · Triple-purpose
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 moreGerman Black Pied
A dairy breed of the North Sea coast, black and white, smaller than the HolsteinTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived
🇦🇹 Austria and 5 moreFleckvieh
A large Central European dual-purpose breed, red and white pied or solid red, kept for milk and beef.Composite · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMurnau-Werdenfels
A long-lived brown dairy breed of the Bavarian uplands, milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived
🇮🇹 Italy and 3 morePustertaler SprinzenPustertaler Schecken
Rare colour-sided Alpine cattle from South Tyrol: white with brown or black flank patchesTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇩🇪 Germany and 2 moreTaurus cattle
Long-legged cross-bred cattle bred in Germany to stand in for the extinct aurochsComposite · Grazing
🇩🇪 GermanyVorderwaldVorderwälder Rind
Black Forest breed with a white face and limbs, coloured patches, forward-curving hornsTaurine · Long-lived
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- German Black Pied: WytzeNauta, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Heck: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Braunvieh: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pinzgauer: Wald1siedel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Brown Swiss: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Aurochs: Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Murnau-Werdenfels: Pippo-b, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Simmental: Richard Bartz, Munich Makro Freak, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Fleckvieh: Josef Moser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Taurus cattle: DFoidl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Galloway: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vorderwald: Flominator, CC BY-SA 3.0, source