Karte Naturpark Feldberger Seenlandschaft

The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park (german: Naturpark Feldberger Seenlandschaft, ) lies in the southeast of the German state of

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. A large part of the nature park lies within the municipality of the same name, the Feldberger Seenlandschaft ("Feldberg Lake District"). In addition the municipalities of

Wokuhl-Dabelow Wokuhl-Dabelow is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district), Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Points of interest References

Grand Duchy of Mecklenbu ...

Grünow Grünow is a municipality in the Uckermark district, in Brandenburg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and t ...

Carpin Carpin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Geography The municipality of Carpin lies within the Feldberg Lake District Nature Park, the southern part of the offshoot of the Mürit ...

, Godendorf and parts of the towns of

Woldegk Woldegk () is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 24 km southeast of Neubrandenburg. The former municipality Petersdorf was merged into Woldegk in May 2019. Woldegk i ...

and Neustrelitz fall within the nature park. The western end of the park is also a part of

Müritz National Park The Müritz National Park (german: Müritz-Nationalpark) is a national park situated roughly in the middle between Berlin and Rostock, in the south of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It extends over large portions of the Müritz lake ...

. The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park is characterised by its large lakes, the ( Breiter Luzin, the Carwitzer See, the Schmaler Luzin, the

Großer Fürstenseer See Großer Fürstenseer See () is a lake in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populo ...

and Feldberger Haussee), the forests with their many plants and animals, including rare species, and also by its cultural landscape. Features of the park are its

kettle bog A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle hole, or pothole) is a depression/hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating gla ...

s and the oldest

beech Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...

woods in Germany in the

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

of Heilige Hallen. The landscape was shaped by the

ice age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and gree ...

. In the north of the park there is a region of terminal moraines; in the south is wooded sandur terrain. The central area with the Feldberg lakes is part of the terminal moraine of the Pomeranian Stage of the Weichselian glaciation. Here the topographic height differences are greater than is normal for North Germany. The highest hill is the ''Vogelkirsche'' (; near the village of Schlicht north of the Breiter Luzin) with a height of 166.2 metres above sea level (NHN). The Breiter Luzin is the second deepest lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with a depth of up to 58.3 metres. The state border with

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

runs through the lakes of Krüselinsee and Großer Mechowsee and the southern part of the Carwitzer See. Many rare animals live here, such as the

otter Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which also includes wea ...

, which is the

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of the park, the black stork, the lesser spotted eagle,

osprey The osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), , also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than in length and across the wings. It is brown o ...

and

white-tailed eagle The white-tailed eagle (''Haliaeetus albicilla'') is a very large species of sea eagle widely distributed across temperate Palearctic, Eurasia. Like all eagles, it is a member of the family Accipitridae (or accipitrids) which includes other diur ...

, the

swollen river mussel ''Unio tumidus'', the swollen river mussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: Worl ...

and the whitefish. There are over 1,000 wild flower species in this nature park. The park has an area of c. 340 km², of which c. 38% is woodland, c. 11% is lakes and rivers, c. 45% is used for agriculture and c. 6% by infrastructure and housing.

Nature reserves

There are 14 nature reserves in the park, covering a total area of 3,714 hectares, which is 10.3 percent of the nature park’s area: * Comthureyer Berg (13 ha) * Conower Werder (54 ha) * Feldberger Hütte (481 ha) * Hauptmannsberg (44 ha) * Heilige Hallen (68 ha) * Hinrichshagen (1124 ha) * Hullerbusch und Schmaler Luzin (345 ha) * Keetzseen (329 ha) * Krüselinsee und Mechowseen (481 ha) * Kulowseen (199 ha) * Sandugkensee (67 ha) * Schlavenkensee (593 ha) * Sprockfitz (27 ha) * Zahrensee bei Dabelow (17 ha)

Literature

* Peter Wernicke et al.: ''Zwischen Havel und Strom. Die Naturparks Feldberger Seenlandschaft und Uckermärkische Seen''. Herausgegeben vom Förderverein Feldberg-Uckermärkische Seenlandschaft. Thomas-Verlag, Leipzig 1998, 97 S., * Klaus Borrmann: ''Lüttenhäger Oberförster. Leben und Wirken für die Wälder der Feldberger Seenlandschaft 1810 - 2001''. Waldmuseum ''Lütt Holthus'', Lüttenhagen 2001, 134 S.

External links

Verordnung zur Festsetzung des Naturparks "Feldberger Seenlandschaft" vom 13. Februar 1997 Naturpark-Seite des Landesamt für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Geologie M-V
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Feldberg Lake District

Nature reserves

See also

Literature

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