Lanken nature reserve (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 12 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  E

Lanken nature reserve (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)​

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

wooded coastal dune

Moist depression in the eastern part

Boulder in the shadowy realm of the beech

The Lanken nature reserve is a 57 hectare nature reserve in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is located one kilometer northwest of the town of Ludwigsburg on the south coast of the Greifswald Bodden .

It was placed under protection on December 12, 1957. The state of the area is viewed as unsatisfactory, as the old Hudewald oaks are being displaced by conifers. The hydrological conditions were improved in 1993 by the installation of a dam, which separated the area from the Ludwigsburg polder. The area is accessible on a hiking trail. Several panels indicate the special features of the areas.

The name Lanken is derived from the Slavic toponym Lanke .

History and water balance

The current protected area areas were formed by the last ice age and subsequent processes of the compensation coast. A postponed cliff of the ground moraine forms the eastern border. To the west is a sea sand plain, as a system of beach walls and bars. The beach walls in the northwest are overlaid by dunes. The Lanken was a shallow beach lake that is now completely silted up.

The Swedish register card from 1697 shows the area as a swamp forest with cattle pasture. The use of pasture was continued until the 1930s. After their abandonment, the open areas were reforested with Douglas fir , Sitka spruce and gray alder . The areas were traversed by a ditch system and drained since 1976 with a connection to the Ludwigsburg polder . The water table sank. In the early 1960s, the Ludwigsburg bath was used for tourism. A restaurant was built and there was a ferry connection to the nearby Greifswald .

Flora and fauna

In the north-western part of the area there is dune pine forest with sand sedge , meadow oats and sheep fescue . A birch-pedunculate oak forest connects to the southeast, interspersed with old Hudewald oaks. Non-local conifers can be found through afforestation. To the east the area closes at higher altitudes with ash-beech forest , in which the forest hyacinth , seven-star and large two-leaf occur. Fireflies can be seen at night in summer . Numerous breeding birds such as sea ​​eagles , hawks and woodcock live in the area. Honey buzzard and marsh harrier are frequent food guests. In spring and autumn, large groups of red thrushes , siskins and chaffinches rest . The badger is native.

Drachenreich Lanken

In 2003 the Michel Succow Foundation took over the area. The development of the area is to be promoted by removing the non-site coniferous trees. The foundation has set up a nature trail under the title “Drachenreich Lanken”, which is intended to encourage children in particular to learn about the area's fauna . It tells the story of a dragon who was given the forest. Visitors are guided along a themed path through the pioneering realm of the pine , the intermediate realm of the oak , the common realm of the ash , the watery realm of the alder and the shadowy realm of the beech . At each station there is a bench with a boulder in which a picture is embedded. It shows the kite and the forest as it would look with and without human use. A riddle about this location has to be solved at a focus tele.

literature

• Lanken 39 . In: Ministry of Environment Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Demmler-Verlag, Schwerin 2003, ISBN 3-910150-52-7 , p. 158 f .
• Völlm, A .: Making the way to the wilderness visible - a nature-educational concept for the NSG Lanken. (PDF) 2006, p. 118 , accessed on May 7, 2009 . 

Web links

Commons : Lanken nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Presentation of the area by the Succow Foundation including photos
• Drachenreich Lanken (environmental education project) with a comprehensive area guide (PDF, 8 MB) to the individual stations of the nature trail
• Map portal environment MV with geodata, u. a. Protected area border

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Teodolius Witkowski: Lanke as a relic word and as the name . In: Teodolius Witkowski (Hrsg.): Research on Slavic and German naming . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 88–120, here p. 97 .
2. ↑ Landschaftsgeschichte p. 110f (PDF) ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Swedish matriculation card, original table sheet, current vegetation map, etc.