Arboretum Erbsland
The Arboretum Erbsland is located southeast of the Müritz in the Mecklenburg Lake District 6 km northeast of Mirow, hidden in the forest area between the villages of Granzow and Qualzow .
The eponymous Flurname Erbsland the arboretum probably stems from its previous use as a pea-growing area fro the local farmers. At the end of the 18th century, the area is still listed as open agricultural area on the Schmettauschen map . In terms of the nature of the soil, it is a large island of boulder clay surrounded by extensive sand areas . In 1887, the Mecklenburg-Strelitz chief forester Friedrich Scharenberg initiated the reforestation and planting of around 7 hectares in the Granzow district of the Mirow chief forestry as an arboretum with around 40 foreign, also non-European tree species, in order to test their suitability for German forestry. The Erbsland still has over 30 different tree species, some of which reach considerable heights of up to 42 m. The Erbsland is one of the oldest forest experimental areas in Germany.
The arboretum was forgotten twice and was rediscovered and the species were redefined: once in 1905, four years after Scharenberg's death, who did not keep the arboretum in the records, and then again in 1953 after the Second World War, after it was used during the During the Nazi era , it had been in a restricted area of the Luftwaffe.
literature
- Peter-Heinrich Scheel: Silvicultural investigations in the arboretum "Erbsland". Dresden, Technical University, Faculty of Civil, Water and Forestry, diploma thesis, 1969.
Web links
- Literature about Arboretum Erbsland in the state bibliography MV
- The centenarians von Mirow - Das Forst-Arboretum Erbsland
Individual evidence
- ^ Arboretum Erbsland - Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , accessed on June 25, 2013
- ^ The centenarians von Mirow , see web links.
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ N , 12 ° 50 ′ 24 ″ E