Upper Lusatian heather and pond area
The Upper Lusatian heath and pond area is a natural area in Saxony . It extends from the Wittichenau - Kamenz line about 60 kilometers in a west-east direction to the Neisse. Its extension between the adjacent natural areas of Upper Lusatia and Eastern Upper Lusatia in the south and the Muskauer Heide and the Upper Lusatian mining area in the north is around 15 to 20 kilometers.
The landscape forms the transition between the southern mountainous part of Upper Lusatia and Lower Lusatia . Its central part is taken up by the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve , the core zones of which are designated as the “Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Nature Reserve”.
The area is part of the Ice Age glacial valley . Valley sands close to the groundwater at altitudes between 130 and 150 meters alternate with valleys that are more than 500 meters wide and only a few meters deeper. Dry areas are located next to wet or even peaty areas.
Almost ten percent of the area make up 335 ponds. This makes the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area the largest economically used pond area in Europe.
The open-cast lignite mining around the Boxberg power plant destroyed part of the original natural landscape, but the remaining holes will form a new part of the landscape after the flooding.
The potential natural vegetation (pnV) is provided by birch and oak - pine forests , in the floodplains also alder - ash forests .
literature
- Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape (= values of the German homeland . Volume 67). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-08903-0 .
Web links
- Large-scale classification, subdivision and overview map as part of the Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia planning region, accessed on March 11, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E