Ice Age Garden Buckow (Märkische Schweiz)

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Ice Age Garden in the Lunapark

The glacial garden is a horticultural representation of a glacially influenced landscape in Buckow in the district Oderland in Brandenburg . It is located on the Buckowseepromenade in the Lunapark .

Background and origin

Ice advances in the Buckow area

The region around Buckow lies in a basin-like extension of the Stobbertal . It is thus part of a glacial meltwater channel that formed in the last two phases of the Vistula Ice Age between the dead ice- filled Oderbruch and the Berlin glacial valley . During these phases, ice masses several hundred meters thick pushed across the region. Like the subsequent meltwater, they shaped the hilly landscape with its lakes, valleys, gorges and plateaus.

The Ice Age Garden is intended to clearly show the visitor how the creative power of the ice has worked. It was laid out in 2006 and 2007 by the landscape architect Uwe Steinkamp from Ihlow and opened by the then Environment Minister Dietmar Woidke . In 2008, three large-format information boards were set up, designed by geologist Johannes Schröder from TU Berlin .

construction

Building the garden
Porphyry boulder

From the west, it becomes clear how the ice , some hundreds of meters thick, transports boulders , boulders and finer material down the slope. At the bottom of the ice, grooves are formed which are modeled from plants. The first meltwater flows off in the channels. However, they are filled with the material carried and there are further deposits, which are shown in the course of the garden. This process is repeated several times, so that several arches with an ice edge layer are created. The fine material is washed out and collects in the form of "block packs" that can be seen in the eastern part of the garden. Individual boulders remain on the area, while the remaining meltwater flows off in an easterly direction ( Buckowsee ).

The boulders weigh between 500 kilograms and 11.2 tons and come from the Welzow-Süd opencast mine . See, for example, a Öje diabase porphyry , a Revsund - granite from Ångermanland or granite from Uppsala with a weight of 9.7 tons. Information boards on the erratic blocks describe their origin, their age and their components. In the northern part of the garden there are three information boards. The first panel with the title Ice Ages: When? Why? Where? describes what an ice age is and which factors must be present for it to arise. Maps from the region illustrate the ice advances and the resulting ice edge layers and glacial valleys. The second table foundlings: origin - transport - types of rock shows which region in Scandinavia the stones come from, how they got to Buckow and which different types can be seen in the garden. The last panel geological history and design shows the temporal formation of the rock on a timeline, describes the design of the stones by ice and wind and the structure of the ice age garden.

and display information about the image
Panoramic view over the garden

literature

  • Culture and Tourism Office Märkische Schweiz: The Ice Age Garden in Buckow , Flyer

Web links

Commons : Eiszeitgarten Buckow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ice Age Garden opened . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , August 9, 2008, accessed on May 29, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '52.3 "  N , 14 ° 4' 4.8"  E