Perleberger Heath
The Perleberger Heide is a natural unit and part of the North Brandenburg plateau and hill country . It forms an approximately 8-kilometer-wide strip that extends for a length of 50 to 60 kilometers between the Elbe lowlands in the southwest and the ground moraine area of Prignitz and Kyritzer Platte in the northeast. The south-eastern end is located in the area of the Neue Jäglitz , for the north-western border the different information can be found Löcknitz and Rudower See .
The Perleberger Heide is mostly flat at 25 to 30 meters above sea level. In places there are piles of dunes. The Perleberger Heide is characterized by sandy soils that are of poor quality for arable farming, which is why pine forests are predominant. There are also moist lowlands, especially on the Löcknitz , Stepenitz and Karthane rivers , which are used as grassland.
The cities of Wittenberge , Bad Wilsnack and Havelberg are on the southwestern edge of the heath, the eponymous city of Perleberg on the northeastern edge. The Plattenburg , the oldest preserved moated castle in Northern Germany, is located in the Perleberger Heide.
literature
- Eberhard Scholz: The natural spatial structure of Brandenburg . Pedagogical District Cabinet, Potsdam 1962, p. 80 .
Web links
- Landscape profile for the Perleberger Heide of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation