The Fläming Nature Park (german: Naturpark Fläming) is a
nature park
A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected natural area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscape ...
with 824 km
2 in
Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany, opened in 2005. It is one of six nature parks in the state Saxony-Anhalt.
The park borders in the north to the
High Fläming Nature Park
High Fläming Nature Park (german: Naturpark Hoher Fläming) is an 827 km2 nature park in Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the German state Brandenburg. It is the third largest of 11 nature parks in the state of Brandenburg. In 1997, it was dec ...
(German: „Naturpark Hoher Fläming“) in the state
Brandenburg and in the south to the biosphere reserve Mittelelbe at the river
Elbe. The nature of the park is determined by the low mountain range
Fläming (max. ~ 200 m high) with forests, meadows, small clear streams and agricultural land. Culturally interesting are some historic towns, old villages, castles and mediaeval stone churches.
The central park office and visitor centre is situated in Jeber-Bergfrieden. The parts of the area belong to the districts
Anhalt-Zerbst and
Wittenberg and with a small part also to the town
Coswig. The park contains 6 towns and 38 municipalities or parts of them; the towns are Coswig,
Lindau,
Roßlau
Rosslau (in German orthography: Roßlau) was until 30 June 2007 a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, belonging to the district Anhalt-Zerbst. After a fusion with the town of Dessau it became eponym of the newly founded town of Dessau-Roßlau and a qua ...
,
Zerbst,
Wittenberg and
Zahna.
External links
High Fläming Nature Park
Nature parks in Saxony-Anhalt
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