The fictional German town in Netflix's Dark is Winden. The series follows four families whose lives become entangled after children begin disappearing, revealing a time-travel mystery beneath the town.
Winden is presented as a small, forested German community with a cave system and a nuclear power plant at its center. The caves contain a wormhole linking different years, allowing the story to move among 1953, 1986, 2019, and other periods. The town's geography and institutions are essential to the plot rather than just a backdrop.
Dark was created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese and premiered on Netflix in 2017. It ran for three seasons, with the final season released in 2020, and became known for its intricate family tree and bootstrap paradoxes.
Winden is fictional; it should not be confused with real German cities such as Hamburg, Munich, or Berlin. The show's setting is German, but the town itself was invented for the story.