The Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands (german: Mittelbrandenburgische Platten und Niederungen) form a
natural region in the German state of
Brandenburg and in parts of southwest
Berlin and the east of
Saxony-Anhalt. They are major unit group 81 in the system of
natural regions of Germany and part of the
East German Plateaux and Heathlands. The Brandenburg portion of the Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands is largely coincident with the natural region designated as the Central March (''Mittlere Mark'') in the structural atlas of the state of Brandenburg.
Location
The Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands are part of the North German Plain. Neighbouring landscapes are the Luchland to the north, the East Brandenburg Heath and Lake District to the east, the
Spreewald
The Spree Forest (German: ''Spreewald'', ; Lower Sorbian: ''Błota'', i.e. 'the Swamps') is a large inland delta of the river Spree, and a historical cultural landscape located in the region of (Lower) Lusatia, in the state of Brandenburg, Ger ...
and the Lusatian Basin and Heathland to the southeast, the
Fläming to the south and the
Elbe Valley to the west.
Description
Almost all the landscape elements that originated during the
Weichselian Glaciation in the state of Brandenburg are united within the Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands. These are dominated by ground moraine plateaux of varying extent alternating with wide lowlands. Adjacent to the
Nauen and
Teltow ground moraine plateaux in the north are the lowlands of Havel, Nuthe and Notte. They are followed by the regions of the Karow Plateau, the Lehnin Land and the heaths of Beelitz and Luckenwald. In the far south a broad ''
urstromtal'', the Baruth Valley.
The highest points are found in the form of
push moraine
A push moraine or pushed moraine is in geomorphology a moraine (a landform formed by glacial processes) that forms when the terminus advance of a lowland glacier pushes unstratified glacial sediment into a pile or linear ridge in front of it. A pus ...
s. The Wietkiekenberg reaches a height of 124.7 m, the
Kleiner Ravensberg
Kleiner Ravensberg is the highest elevation in the municipal area of Potsdam in Brandenburg, Germany with a peak at 114.2 m above sea level. It is located in a woodland called ''Ravensberge''. The hill is part of a push moraine which was formed du ...
near Potsdam 114.2 m, the Götzer Berg 108.6 m. The entire natural region is drained by the Havel and its tributaries.
Natural regions
The Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands are subdivided as follows:
*81 Central Brandenburg Plateaux and Lowlands
**810
Nauen Plateau (595.0 km
2)
**811
Teltow Plateau Teltow [] is both a geological plateau and also a historical region in the German states of Brandenburg and Berlin. As an historical region, the Teltow was one of the eight territories out of which the March of Brandenburg was formed in the 12th and ...
(675.9 km
2)
**812 Brandenburg-Potsdamer Havelgebiet (513.0 km
2)
**813 Lehnin Land (271.8 km
2)
**814 Beelitzen Heath (225.0 km
2)
**815 Nuthe-Notte Lowland (561.6 km
2)
**816 Luckenwald Heath (319.5 km
2)
**817 Baruth Urstromtal and Fiener Bruch (881.0 km
2)
**818 Karow Plateau (73.0 km
2)
Literature
* Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen et al. (eds.): ''
Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands
The ''Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany'' (german: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands) was a book series resulting from a project by the former German Federal Institute for Regional Studies ('' Bundesanstalt für La ...
.'' Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (8. Lieferung 1961). pp. 1129–1139, Author H. J. Franz.
* {{citation, surname1=Eberhard Scholz, title=Die naturräumliche Gliederung Brandenburgs, publisher=Pädagogisches Bezirkskabinett, publication-place=Potsdam, pages=52 ff, date= 1962, language=German
References
North German Plain
Geography of Brandenburg