Ice Age educational trail Tiefwarensee

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The ice age educational trail Tiefwarensee runs once around the Tiefwarensee on the north-eastern outskirts of Waren (Müritz) in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg. The ten-kilometer hiking trail can be circled on foot or by bike. It is part of D8 of the Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape Geopark.

Overview of the Ice Age educational trail Tiefwarensee

Subject of the nature trail

The Müritz and the Tiefwarensee as well as the entire Mecklenburg Lake District were shaped by the last Ice Age . As in a model region, its various stages can be observed here. "With the Geopark project we want to make this geological natural heritage more accessible to the public than before and make it usable for regional tourism development," says the website of the Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape Geopark.

Stations of the hiking trail

According to the overview map there are 17 stations with explanations:

  1. The explanations begin at the cemetery parking lot.
  2. Eiskeller Stüde: In earlier times, blocks were sawed out of the ice of the Tiefwarensee in winter, stored in an ice cellar and removed during the year for use in butcher shops and breweries. Today you have a good view of the lake from the roof of the ice cellar.
  3. Kreuzweg Hohlweg - Werderweg: A settlement in the pre-Roman Iron Age has been proven at this point. There are also traces of a cattle sacrificial site. The bridge here leads over the meltwater inflow from Lake Melzer to Lake Tiefwarensee.
Explanation board for the lakeside terrace on the Ice Age educational trail Tiefwarensee
  2. Schwalbenberg swimming area
  3. Lakeside terrace after the Werder settlement: In this part of the nature reserve Ostufer Tiefwaren - Falkenhäger Bruch you will find species-rich wet forests and a hazel coppice forest and a beech forest .
Explanation board for the formation of sand at the Tiefwarensee
  2. Geological outcrop (Sander): Dead ice was covered by Sander at Lake Tiefwarensee . Today's lake basin sank as the ice melted. The meltwater emerged from the ice sheet at high pressure. As the currents spread, they lost speed. Since the transport force was no longer sufficient, the material carried along settled as sediment. This included both boulders and fine-grained materials.
Explanation board for moraine formation in the Tiefwarensee area
  2. Geological outcrop (terminal moraine): At this station you can see till clay and fine sandy silt . The terms ground moraine , ablation moraine and compression moraine are explained . A distinction is made between set end moraine (embankments of the material carried by the inland ice when the ice melts) and compression end moraine (deferred walls in the advancement phase of a glacier).
  3. Wolfsschlucht: part of the Ice Age terminal moraine with a stately and species-rich beech forest. It is a Ratskamp (a parcel, the income of which was due to the Warener Council). The name "Wolfsschlucht" is said to have originated in the Romantic era (19th century).
View from the observation tower over the moraine landscape to the Tiefwarensee
  2. Lookout tower: From the lookout tower of this station you have a view over the Tiefwarensee and the terminal moraine landscape, which is upstream on the edge of the Rinnensee .
View from the Amsee Clinic over the Tiefwarensee towards Waren
  2. Amsee Clinic: From the clinic you have a view from the northwest of Lake Tiefwarensee.
  3. Waren beech: The trees stand on a terminal moraine on the edge of the Tiefwarensee.
  4. Pomeranian Meadow: Here are rare plants and a. Orchids.
  5. Bungenberg: Fishermen used to dry their bungs on this mountain (= fish traps made of netting).
  6. Mühlenberg: There used to be several windmills here - today it is the place for folk festivals and the open-air stage.
  7. Parking lot bowling alley: Here, too, you can leave your car behind and start the circular route of the one-time educational trail.
  8. Boat rental: If you want to see the Ice Age landscape from the water of the Tiefwarensee, you can rent a boat here.
  9. Promenade - south bank of the Tiefwarensee: From the height of the promenade you have a panoramic view from the south over the Tiefwarensee.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Geopark Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape
  2. ↑ Aims of the Ice Age educational trail on the site of the Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape Geopark
  3. ↑ Website of the lung clinic at Tiefwarensee

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