Stechlin-Ruppiner Land Nature Park
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| Location: | Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Next city: | Rheinsberg | ||
| Surface: | 680 km² | ||
| Founding: | July 7, 2001 | ||
| Address: | Nature park administration Am Friedensplatz 9 |
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The Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park is a large conservation area in the north of the state of Brandenburg . The nature park was named after the Großer Stechlinsee and the historic Ruppiner Land landscape . It includes the Rheinsberg lake area and Ruppin Switzerland .
The area around the Großer Stechlinsee has had the status of a nature reserve since 1938 on an area of 1,774 hectares . The Stechlin nature reserve was protected on November 15, 2002 with a total size of 8,760 hectares by the establishment of the statutory ordinance. The nature park was made famous in 2001 and has been the 15th major conservation area in the state of Brandenburg since then. According to the Brandenburg Nature Conservation Act, nature parks mainly consist of nature reserves and landscape protection areas. The Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park is home to more than half of the natural clear water lakes in Brandenburg and also some special features, such as the occurrence of dystrophic moorland lakes, diverse moorland areas and forests, in particular red beech forests. The nature park has an area of approx. 680 km², approx. 62% of forests, approx. 7% of lakes (more than 100) and rivers, approx. 17% of fields, approx. 9% of grassland and approx. 5% of infrastructure and living space are used.
Location and transport links
The nature park is located in the districts of Oberhavel (approx. 1/3) and Ostprignitz-Ruppin (approx. 2/3) in the north of the state of Brandenburg and borders on the state border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the east on the Uckermärkische Seen nature reserve . The nature park is located in the area of the cities of Fürstenberg / Havel , Gransee , Lindow (Mark) , Neuruppin , Rheinsberg and Wittstock / Dosse as well as the communities Großwoltersdorf , Herzberg (Mark) , Sonnenberg , Stechlin , Storbeck-Frankendorf and Vielitzsee .
The federal highway 122 runs through the nature park, the federal highway 96 runs along its eastern edge and the federal highway 167 runs along its southern edge .
NaturParkHaus
The visitor center of the nature park is located in Menz . In the NaturParkHaus Stechlin an exhibition is shown on the characteristic habitats of the area - beech forests, moors and clear water lakes - and their inhabitants. The NaturParkHaus is sponsored by the “Naturlandschaft Stechlin und Menzer Heide e. V. ”, which also offers a program of environmental education events.
See also
literature
- Tom Kirschey, Silke Oldorff: The Stechlin nature reserve in the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature reserve . In: Yearbook Ostprignitz-Ruppin , Volume 12, 2002, pp. 136–140.
- Manfred Lütkepohl, Martin Flade (ed.): The Stechlin nature reserve . In: Natur und Text , Rangsdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9807627-8-5 , 267 pp.
Web links
- Stechlin-Ruppiner Land Nature Park , Brandenburg State Office for the Environment
- Stechlinsee area (PDF; 348 kB) NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage
- NaturParkHaus Stechlin (visitor center of the nature park)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Declaration on the "Stechlin-Ruppiner Land" nature reserve (PDF; 1.5 MB) Announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture, Environmental Protection and Regional Planning of June 13, 2001. In: Official Journal for Brandenburg , Volume 12, 2001, Number 27, Potsdam, July 4, 2001, p. 450/1.