Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park
The Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park, founded in 1961, is located in the Duchy of Lauenburg in the southeast of Schleswig-Holstein, directly on the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the young moraine landscape of the Schleswig-Holstein hill country, which was shaped by the Vistula Ice Age .
Location and importance
With over 470 km², the nature park is the third largest nature park in Schleswig-Holstein with extensive forest areas. The Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park, there are 40 in number, borders directly on the Mecklenburg biosphere reserve Schaalsee and together with it forms a large protected area along the former inner-German border.
The largest lakes in the nature park are the Ratzeburger See and the Schaalsee , which are connected by the Schaalsee Canal that begins at Salem .
The district town of Ratzeburg and Mölln with the Hellbachtal are also in the nature park . The old salt road from Lüneburg to Lübeck runs through the nature park - in some places, as at Fredeburg , still as a medieval route . The nature park is bordered to the west between Berkenthin and Büchen roughly by the Elbe-Lübeck Canal . The nature park path , which connects the five nature parks in Schleswig-Holstein for hikers, runs through the landscape .
The North Sea-Baltic Sea watershed runs through the nature park .
See also
- Lauenburg Lakes Office
- Other lakes in the nature park: Behlendorfer See | Garrensee | Oldenburg Lake | Pinnsee | Plötscher See
- Tourism in Schleswig-Holstein
- List of nature parks in Germany
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Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ' N , 10 ° 47' E