Biesenthal basin nature reserve

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View into the Biesenthal basin

The Biesenthal Basin is a nature reserve in the Barnim district in the southwest of the Brandenburg municipality of Biesenthal . The 990 hectare area is part of the natural park Barnim and includes an embossed glacial landscape, recognizable by the hills with kames and tongue Beck lakes , including Mechesee , Hellsee , Liepnitzsee , Plotzensee Regesesee and Streesee . The boundaries of the basin are determined in the east and south by the Barnim plateau, in the west by a terminal moraine from the Vistula Ice Age and in the north by the Eberswalder glacial valley . From the edge by pulling leveling the pelvis, which unite before Biesenthal Finow to flow. The Biesenthal basin is drained by the Finow flow system via the Eberswalde glacial valley to the Oder. The landscape was formed by dead ice in the Vistula Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. In addition, mixed deciduous forests, wet meadows and moors shape the landscape. From around 1830 until shortly before the Second World War, the fens were used for peat extraction . After the peat cutting was stopped, parts of the area were made usable for pasture farming and haymaking by creating drainage ditches. Today, through a rewetting project, large bogs are to be formed again in the basin in order to counteract the falling groundwater levels in Barnim. As a fauna and flora habitat, the Biesenthal basin is part of the Europe-wide Natura 2000 protected area . Part of the NSG is owned by the NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage . On the edge of the basin, the town of Biesenthal lies in the north, the village of Lanke in the west and the villages of Lobetal and Rüdnitz in the south .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 59 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 15 ″  E