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The Peene Valley (german: Peenetal) is a
landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
in
West Pomerania
Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (german: Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Weste ...
in 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 ...
. It covers the area on either side of the river
Peene
The Peene () is a river in Germany.
Geography
The Westpeene, with the Ostpeene as its longer tributary, and the Kleine Peene/Teterower Peene (with a ''Peene '' without specification (or ''Nordpeene'') as its smaller and shorter affluent) flo ...
in the districts of
and
Vorpommern-Greifswald
Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland (West Pomeranian Voivodes ...
as the river makes its way from
Lake Kummerow past the towns of
Dargun
Dargun is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated km west of Demmin. It is famous for Dargun Palace, a former Cistercian abbey.
History
From 1815 to 1918 Dargun was part of ...
,
Demmin
Demmin () is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It was the capital of the former district of Demmin.
Geography
Demmin lies on the West Pomeranian plain at the confluence of the rivers ...
,
Loitz
Loitz () is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Peene, 10 km northeast of Demmin, and 22 km southwest of Greifswald.
The German local historian, philologi ...
,
Jarmen
Jarmen () is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the southern bank of the river Peene, 20 km south of Greifswald, in the historic region of Pomerania.
Founded during the ...
,
Gützkow
Gützkow () is a town in the District of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated some 15 km south of Greifswald, on the north bank of the River Peene. Gützkow was the central town of the medieval County o ...
and
Anklam
Anklam [], formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the ''Kleines Haff'', the western ...
to its
mouth
In animal anatomy, the mouth, also known as the oral cavity, or in Latin cavum oris, is the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds. It is also the cavity lying at the upper end of the alimentary canal, bounded on ...
on the
Peenestrom
The Peenestrom is a river in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is 20 kilometres long and is the westernmost connection of the Szczecin Lagoon (together with the Świna and the Dziwna) with the Baltic Sea. It is therefore also one of the ...
.
The landscape of the Peene Valley has been little impacted by industry and other human activities and has a large variety of animal and plant species. It is therefore a nature area of statewide importance and much of the region is subject to nature and landscape conservation measures. It has a core zone of about 20,000
hectare
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...
s and a total area of about 45,000 hectares and is thus the largest contiguous
fen
A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. T ...
region of Europe.
Thanks to its wilderness and intact nature, the river
Peene
The Peene () is a river in Germany.
Geography
The Westpeene, with the Ostpeene as its longer tributary, and the Kleine Peene/Teterower Peene (with a ''Peene '' without specification (or ''Nordpeene'') as its smaller and shorter affluent) flo ...
and its valley is often referred to as "the
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...
of the North".
Peene – Amazonas des Nordens
(Living at Home)
References
Literature
* Mike Stegemann, Frank Hennicke: ''Errichtung und Sicherung schutzwürdiger Teile von Natur und Landschaft mit gesamtstaatlich repräsentativer Bedeutung. Projekt: Peenetal/ Peene-Haff-Moor, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.'' In: ''Natur und Landschaft.'' Issue 7/8, 1991. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, p. 287–294, .
* Barbara Havenstein, Frank Hennicke, Mike Stegemann, Jens Kulbe (Autoren), Zweckverband „Peenetal-Landschaft“ Anklam (Herausgeber): ''Natur- und Wanderführer Peenetal.'' Hoffmann-Druck GmbH, Wolgast 1998.
* Erich Hoyer: ''Naturführer Insel Usedom. Mit Haffküste, Ueckermünder Heide und unterem Peenetal.'' Verlag Erich Hoyer, Galenbeck 2001, .
* Frieder Jelen Frieder is both a surname and a masculine given name, a variant of Friedrich. People with the name include:
Surname:
*Armin Frieder (1911–1946), Slovak Neolog rabbi
*Bill Frieder (1942), former basketball coach
*Katalin Frieder (1915–1991), Hu ...
: ''Ein Nationalpark im Peenetal. Wird eine Vision Wirklichkeit?'' In: ''Nationalpark. Wildnis - Mensch - Landschaft.'' 1/2006. Verein der Freunde des Ersten Deutschen Nationalparks Bayerischer Wald e.V, p. 4–7.
External links
Peene Valley landscape major nature conservation project
Information by the Federal Nature Conservation Office
Förderverein „Naturschutz im Peenetal“
Official website of the preservation society
{{Authority control
Regions of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Bird reserves in Germany
Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)
Nature parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
MPeeneValley