Am Stettiner Haff Nature Park

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The Am Stettiner Haff Nature Park is one of seven nature parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

geography

The nature park is located south of the eponymous Szczecin Lagoon on the border with Poland . It stretches from the lagoon coast to the Brohmer Mountains in the south. The landscape is characterized by the lagoon coast, flat and hilly terminal moraine landscape , beech and mixed forests, lean sandy soils and the fen areas along the rivers. Larger natural areas are the Ueckermünder Heide , the Brohmer Mountains, the Randowbruch and the Friedländer Große Wiese .

To the west is the Galenbeck lake , which is not part of the nature park itself. The rivers Randow , Uecker , Zarow and Großer Landgraben flow or arise in the nature park. Large parts of the Ueckermünder Heide south of Eggesin are restricted areas as military training areas and do not belong to the nature park. The city of Pasewalk is centrally located between the two arms of the nature park that reach south. The Baltic Sea motorway A 20 runs south and west of the nature park .

Together with the Sternberger Seenland nature park, the nature park is one of the youngest nature parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and was founded on January 1, 2005. When it was founded, it covered a total area of ​​53,793 hectares. About 8% of the total area of ​​the park were nature reserves and 51% were designated landscape protection areas. The representative seat of the nature park administration with the visitor information center has been in Eggesin since August 18, 2012. On October 22, 2018, the communities of Blankensee and Plöwen were completely integrated into the nature park, so that its area increased by around 1,600 hectares. Since then, the proportion of nature conservation and landscape protection areas has been 57.6%.

The southwestern part of the nature park overlaps with the Geopark Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape , which forms the geological transition to the Feldberger Seenlandschaft Nature Park .

Landscape development

Expansion of the nature park in the former Uecker-Randow district

The landscape was shaped by the Pomeranian stage of the Vistula Ice Age around 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. The resulting low-relief surface structures of the ground moraine are characterized by layers of ice, oser , valleys and basins. One of the most conspicuous ice edge locations is the Rosenthaler edge location with dam walls and individual sand deposits ( Brohmer Mountains ) near Jatznick.

The Haffstausee was created in the late glacial and was fed with melt water from the glacial valleys via the Oder, Ina, Uecker and Randow valleys. With the increasing retreat of the inland ice to the north, the water level of the Haff reservoir fell in stages. The terraces on the edge of the reservoir are evidence of this.

The deepest areas of the Haff reservoir were subject to silting processes , beginning in the late glacial and intensified in the Holocene , which later resulted in basin clays and sands being deposited in the basin formation. Due to the movement of wind , drifting sand covers and inland dunes were deposited, which shape the characteristic image of the Ueckermünder Heide today.

In the warm period of the Holocene, small lakes were created in the hinterland of the Szczecin Lagoon. In the lowlands of the river valleys there was bog with muds, lake chalk and fens .
Humans as a geological factor have influenced this development for 5000 years.

animals and plants

Marsh marigold

flora

Due to the different water supply of the soils, a wide range of species has developed. In addition to near-natural mixed forests of beech and oak, coniferous forests form the main forest in the region. In the damp or wet locations, broken forest communities have developed. Marsh marigolds and orchids are characteristic of these areas .

fauna

The otter can often be found in the rivers Uecker , Randow and Zarow . Many rare bird species are at home here, such as white-tailed eagles , lesser spotted eagles , black storks and bitterns . You can also see cranes here. The extremely rare hoopoe has also recaptured the restricted areas of the military training areas. Painted ladies and other large butterflies can also be found here.

Protected areas

Ueckermünder beach
Altwarp and Riether Werder
Sunrise in the LSG Stettiner Haff
Ludwigshofer See in the Ahlbeck lake bottom

Nature reserves

There are ten nature reserves in the nature park with a total area of ​​7074 hectares. This corresponds to 13 percent of the nature park area.

Landscape protection areas

Natural monuments

There are 65 natural monuments in the entire nature park, including many common oaks and linden trees, but also pines and beeches.
It also includes, among other things, small meadows and moors.


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Altwarper inland dunes

See also

literature

  • State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology and the Uecker-Randow District (ed.): Nature Park Plan "Am Stettiner Haff". Volume 1 - Mission statement, goals and implementation strategies. Volume 2 - data and facts. Volume 3 - Project overview. Guestrow 2008

Web links

Commons : Am Stettiner Haff Nature Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Am Stettiner Haff Nature Park expanded - Profit for rural areas from November 29, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2019