Dubrow (Gräbendorf)

Dubrow forest area

The Dubrow is an approximately 1300 hectare forest area in the district of Gräbendorf , a district of the municipality Heidesee in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg .

location

The forest area lies south of the historic town center and is bordered to the west by the Heideseer district of Prieros . To the southeast are the Teupitz waters , a chain of lakes connected by canals; south of the district of Neubrück of the community Groß Köris . This is followed in a clockwise direction by the Klein Köris district and the Groß Köris community center. To the west, the area is bounded by the Bestenseer district of Pätz . The southern part is designated as a nature reserve, the Dubrow nature reserve. The area is drained by the Gräbendorfer Landgraben as well as the Pätzer Vorfluter and the Mühlengraben , which flow into the Dahme . Approximately in the middle of the area are the Frauensee and the Förstersee to the southwest, the two bodies of water in the forest area. It is possible to drive south from Gräbendorf to the Haus des Waldes .

History and etymology

The name Dubrow is derived from the Slavic and means something like oak country . The surface of the area was created in the last Glaciation of the Vistula , which ended around 11,600 years ago. After the ice retreated, a forest area developed in which sessile oak , pine and birch grew. On Sandern were formed lichen - pine forests . The remaining moraines are recognizable as numerous elevations such as the Pätzer Berge, the Dubrowberge and the Katzenberge in the landscape.

Game cellar

From the 17th century the Dubrow was a preferred hunting ground for the kings of Prussia . According to tradition, the first hunting in 1697 took place after the Great Elector for his son Frederick I , the Castle King Wusterhausen acquired. He in turn gave it to his son Friedrich Wilhelm I , who set off from the palace on the court hunts. In the 18th century, foresters began to replace the natural tree population with a commercial forest with pines. The last court hunt took place in 1913 under Kaiser Wilhelm II . Craftsmen built a game cellar to store the game. It is populated by bats in the 21st century . After the forestry was given up at the beginning of the 20th century, the forest darkened; old oak stands died. At the time of the GDR , a KiEZ opened on the north bank of the Hölzerner See . It has been operated as the Floriansdorf KiEZ Frauensee since 2013 .

Flora and fauna

Numerous bird species have been identified in the forest, including the black and red kite , tawny owl , tree falcon , kingfisher , buzzard , hawk , common ravens , cranes , gray heron and osprey . There are also 12 species of bat such as the greater horseshoe bat , the water bat and the pipistrelle bat . The old oak stocks are populated by the stag beetle and the oak hero buck . On the ground, many amphibian and reptile species such as the live agile frog , the spadefoot , the natterjack toad and sand lizard , but also the wood ant or the grass snake and slow worm . The sundew and water hoses thrive in the boggy depressions .

Dubrow nature reserve

In the southern part, 263.33 hectares are under special protection as an FFH area . A terminal moraine had formed there, on the south-eastern side of which numerous channel lakes have formed. Two sub-areas were designated as a natural development area in 1961 : an area near the shore at the Hölzerner See as well as the Schmölde and an oak population in the area of ​​a former gray heron colony, the 18.07 hectare natural forest Dubrow.

The otters , the great mouse-eared mouse and the northern crested newt live in the area and are under special protection. The same applies to the large oak goat , the large moss maiden and the stag beetle.

Web links

• The Dubrow , website of Gräbendorf, accessed on January 1, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information board of the community Heidesee: Dubrow - Gräbendorf , set up west of the Haus des Waldes, December 2018.
2. ↑ Information board : Dubrow recreation area , set up west of the House of the Forest, December 2018.
3. ↑ Dubrow , website of the Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park, accessed on December 11, 2018.
4. ↑ Ordinance on the designation of the forest area ”Naturwald Dubrow” as a protective forest of May 29, 1998 , website of the Brandenburg state government, accessed on January 1, 2019.
5. ↑ Profile 3748-307 Dubrow (FFH area), website of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, accessed on January 1, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 44.4 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 12"  E