Great Moor (Vechta-Diepholz)

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Rewetting in the Dreiecksmoor, a northern part of the Great Moor

Großes Moor is the proper name for a contiguous high moor area between Damme , Lohne , Vechta and Goldenstedt in the district of Vechta on the one hand and Diepholz and Barnstorf in the district of Diepholz and Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) on the other.

The proper name for two sub-moors of the large contiguous moor area is also Großer Moor . The coherent large moor area is referred to in this usage with the generic term large moors . One of the two large moors is south of Damme, the other east of Vechta. Both moors are connected by a corridor of moors east of Steinfeld and Lohne.

The entire moor area consists of partly natural areas, former peat cuttings and raised bog grassland.

geography

location

The Great Moor runs in the south of the North German Plain along the border between the districts of Vechta and Diepholz. It is part of the natural area " Ems-Hunte-Geest and Dümmer-Geestniederung ". In the north and west of the moor near Damme are the Damme mountains , whose foothills limit the moor in the west to the area of ​​the city of Vechta.

The southern Great Moor extends into the Dümmer Nature Park , in which the Dümmer is located. Not far to the south join the foothills of the Wiehengebirge , which is part of the Northern Teutoburg Forest-Wiehengebirge Nature Park . In front of these mountains and thus near the Great Moor, a section of the Mittelland Canal, built in a west-east direction, runs past the moor area.

The northern Great Moor extends into the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .

The Rehdener Geestmoor connects to the east, and the Kellenberg rises to the southeast .

The Hase runs west of the Great Moor, and the Hunte runs east of it . Streams heading towards these rivers drain the moorland.

Traffic routes

Only a few developed roads cross the border between the districts of Vechta and Diepholz or Osnabrück, namely the roads from Damme to Hunteburg , those from Damme to Lembruch , from Steinfeld to Diepholz ( Bundesstrasse 214 ), from Lohne to Aschen and the road from Vechta to Diepholz ( Bundesstrasse 69 ). There are no railway lines running through the moor. Since the Great Moor is hardly cut up by traffic routes, it consists of large contiguous areas.

The moor as a natural boundary

The separating character of the Great Moor can still be felt today (in the form of a feeling of alienation between neighbors and a lack of networking of all kinds). The areas to the west and east of the Vechta-Diepholz district border were foreign to each other until 1871. The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Kingdom of Prussia (until 1866: Kingdom of Hanover ) were separated from each other . The border also functioned as a state border between 1871 and 1946, between the German states of Oldenburg and Prussia (or the state of Hanover ). At the same time, this boundary was and is a denominational boundary between the predominantly Catholic residents of the Oldenburger Münsterland and the predominantly Protestant Diepholzern. It was only with the establishment of the city ​​quartet Damme-Diepholz-Lohne-Vechta in 1994 and the dissolution of the administrative districts in Lower Saxony in 2004 that the moor began to lose its psychological and economic separating effect. Since 2005, most of the moorland, and since 2010 also the part in the Osnabrück district, has belonged to the Northwest Metropolitan Region .

View of an area of ​​the Goldenstedter Moor, the northernmost part of the Great Moor

The Great Moor near Damme was presumably (if the Varus Battle took place there) in 9 AD for the Roman general Varus' undoing, as he and his troops could not move north near Kalkriese because of the moor that ended there.

division

The Great Moor consists of these partial moors (sorted alphabetically), only a part of which is under nature protection:

Several moorland areas in the areas of the municipality of Steinfeld and the town of Damme in the district of Vechta and in the area of ​​the municipality of Bohmte in the district of Osnabrück are grouped together in the " Western Dümmerniederung nature reserve ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An example of this usage: the brochure Archaeological Monuments in the districts of Diepholz and Nienburg / Weser by the Landschaftsverband Weser-Hunte eV, in which a section is entitled “Diepholz-Aschen: Bohlenwege im Großer Moor”. The plank paths treated there run between Aschen and Lohne.
  2. ↑ An example of this usage: Hajo Hayen : Bohlenwege in den große Mooren am Dümmer . Cologne. 1977
  3. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Aschener Moor" nature reserve
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Boller Moor and Lange Lohe" nature reserve
  5. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Diepholzer Moor" nature reserve
  6. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Dievenmoor" nature reserve
  7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Drebbersches Moor" nature reserve
  8. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Goldenstedter Moor" nature reserve
  9. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Am Heeder Moor" nature reserve
  10. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Ochsenmoor" nature reserve
  11. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Steinfelder Moor" nature reserve
  12. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Südlohner Moor" nature reserve
  13. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Venner Moor" nature reserve
  14. ↑ Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation: "Westliche Dümmerniederung" nature reserve

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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '2 "  N , 8 ° 11' 39"  E