Uckermärkische Seen Nature Park
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| Location: | Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Next city: | Templin | ||
| Surface: | 897 km² | ||
| Founding: | May 3, 1997 | ||
| Address: | Nature park administration Zehdenicker Str. 1 |
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The Uckermärkische Seen nature park is a 897 km² nature park in the state of Brandenburg , which was created on May 3, 1997. It comprises around 230 lakes, streams, moors and small bodies of water that were formed during the Vistula Ice Age over 15,000 years ago.
Location and scope
The nature park borders directly on the Feldberger Seenlandschaft nature park in the north , on the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature park in the west and forms a coherent lake landscape with them. The Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve is located southeast of the nature park . The nature park includes parts of the Neustrelitz Kleinseenland , the Uckermärkisches Hügelland , the Templiner Platte , the Zehdenick-Spandauer Havelniederung , the Granseer Platte and the Woldegk-Feldberger Hügelland . To the west of the nature park is the Himmelpforter Heide forest area . The nature park includes the following protected areas:
- Landscape protection area Norduckermärkische Seenlandschaft
- Protected landscape area Neuruppin - Rheinsberg - Fürstenberg forest and lake area
- Thymen nature reserve
- Nature reserve Küstrinchenbach and Oberpfuhlmoor
- Nature reserve Tiefer - und Lazy See
- Great core break nature reserve
- Boitzenburger Tiergarten nature reserve
- Clanssee nature reserve
- Kleiner Kronsee nature reserve
- Stoitzsee nature reserve
- Poviestsee nature reserve
- Damerower Wald nature reserve
- Great Mewenbruch nature reserve
- Mellensee nature reserve near Lychen
- Kiecker nature reserve
- Knehdenmoor nature reserve
- Stromtal nature reserve
- Klapperberge nature reserve
Others
The heraldic animal of the nature park is the osprey , which lives here with 30 breeding pairs in an unusual density. Other rare animals, such as the brown trout , the otter , the European pond turtle and the crayfish , also live in the nature park. Among other rare plants, the straw-yellow orchid ( Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. Ochroleuca ) is at home here.
Because of its over 100 km of water hiking trails, the nature park is also very popular with paddlers.
The visitor center of the nature park is located in the Berliner Tor in Templin .
statistical data
- Total area: 897 km² (100%)
- Forest: 422 km² (47%)
- Arable land / grassland: 332 km² (37%)
- Water: 80 km² (9%)
- Settlements and other: 63 km² (7%)
- Population density: approx. 25 inhabitants per km²
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Declaration on the "Uckermärkische Seen" nature park - Announcement by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Regional Planning of January 10, 1997 (PDF)
- ↑ Information on the Lugv Brandenburg website, accessed on August 24, 2014
- ↑ Uckermärkische Seen Nature Park on the website of the Brandenburg Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2011
annotation
- ↑ On the website http://www.naturparke.de/parks the size is given in contradiction to this with 790 km²
