Lübeck basin
The Lübeck Basin is a basin in the Lübeck area in Schleswig-Holstein . It is located in the eastern hill country , which belongs to the North German Plain .
It is the area of a former meltwater reservoir ( ice reservoir ), in which the water of the glaciers that thawed at the end of the last glacial period (the Vistula glacial period ) collected. This lake was separated in the north, west and south by a chain of terminal moraines - in the east the water drainage was blocked by the receding glaciers. The location of the moraines gave the basin an almost rectangular shape.
In the stagnant water of the Lübeck Basin, the fine clays washed in by the meltwater - created by the grinding activity of the glaciers - were able to deposit and form layers of clay. These layers of clay, which are now just below the surface of the earth, were and are being mined and used, among other things, for the production of bricks, from which, for example, the typical brick buildings in Lübeck ( brick Gothic ) were built. The densely populated basin in Germania Slavica in the 9th century is the subject of archaeological research.
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- ↑ Karl Gripp : About the morphological evidence of large fluctuations in the ice edge. In: Ice Age and the Present. 1st year, 1951, pp. 65–69, doi : 10.3285 / eg.01.1.06 .
- ↑ Among other things Günter P. Fehring : Settlement structures of the Lübeck basin and their requirements in Slavic times. In: Journal of Archeology. Volume 18, 1984, pp. 81-92; Karl-Heinz Willroth : The Lübeck Basin in the early Middle Ages. An inventory of Slavic sites. In: Lübeck writings on archeology and cultural history. Volume 11, 1985, pp. 7-51.