Harz Red Cattle
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The Harz Red Cattle was an unicoloured red cattle breed from the Harz in Germany.
This cattle breed stemmed from the red cattle breeds of South and Middle Germany and traced probably back to the unicoloured red Germanic-Celtic Cattle. Out of them an own cattle breed developed under the tough conditions of the mountain range Harz.
In the 1950s this cattle breed was crossed with Danish Red bulls to increase the milk performance. Later they crossed in Angeln cattle. Since 1980 the Harz Red cattle was only a variance of the Angeln cattle.
In the middle of the 1980s they took remaining animals of the old Harz Red cattle (that were already mixed) to synthesize a new population of "Red Cattle, breeding type Mountain Cattle".
