Red Moor (Rhön)
The Red Moor (german: Rotes Moor) is a raised bog in the Hesse, Hessian part of the Rhön Mountains in Germany. It lies within the eponymous Naturschutzgebiet, nature reserve in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and is part of the Europe-wide conservation system, Natura 2000. The Red Moor has an area of 50 hectares and is the second largest raised bog in the High Rhön after the Black Moor (Rhön), Black Moor (66.4 hectares). For 175 years, until 1984, peat was cut here. The interior of the raised bog is severely damaged, especially as a result of the many years of peat cutting. Its perimeters are however still largely undisturbed areas that are better and more typically developed than the Black Moor, 8 kilometres away. In 1979 large-scale renaturalisation measures began. Geography The Red Moor is the largest raised bog in Hesse, followed by the moor in the Breungeshain Heath (4 ha) on the uplands of the Vogelsberg. In the Rhön it is the second largest bog after the Black ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]