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Aerial view of the Plagefenn core zone 2017

Moorland in the total reserve

Lieper Posse 2018

Moor in the total reserve

The Plagefenn is a moor in the Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve . The total reserve is located around the Great and Small Plagesee south of Brodowin and covers an area of ​​177 hectares . The Plagefenn nature reserve stretches from the Plageseen to Liepe . It was formed on September 12, 1990 with the last resolution of the GDR Council of Ministers and has an area of ​​1042 hectares.

etymology

The name of the area goes back to a settlement called Plawe , mentioned in 1258 . The exact location of this settlement is no longer known today. "Plawe" was also called Plaue or Plage . "Plaw" Alt means Polabisch s swampy terrain or mud . In a further mention in 1459 as "Plauel deserta" the destruction or the abandonment of the settlement is mentioned.

Description and history

The two lakes have no direct drainage, but communicate directly with the fenn (moor). The Plagefenn drains over the Lieperpossegraben directly into the valley of the former Finow . Between the Plageseen and Liepe there are several moors, which are connected by ditches that are still recognizable today by the Cistercian monks .

All wetlands around the Plagefenn lose a lot of water via the Nettelgraben . This was certainly wanted by the Cistercians, since they had built their first monastery on the shore of Lake Parstein on an island . In the 17th and 18th centuries, maps showed a significantly higher water level. In 1714 Plagesee, Wesensee and Brodowinsee were still connected, the village of Brodowin almost had the character of an island. In 1767, today's Plageseen were still connected. 1820 was the grazing rights for Liepe 183 pigs, 766 horses, 2,488 cows and oxen and 10,535 sheep. Back then, these animals were often put to pasture in the forest, so the farmers were keen to drain the area.

On the initiative of forester Max Kienitz , it was established in 1907 as the first nature reserve in northern Germany . In 1938 the Plagefenn received a protected area ordinance. In 1954 the protection status was upheld by the nature conservation law of the GDR. In 1957 the landscape protection area "Choriner Endmoränenbogen" was created around the Plagefenn. From the beginning of the 1970s, the water quality of the lakes deteriorated as manure was poured into the surrounding fields. The nature reserve continues to dry up due to amelioration ditches and drainage in the interests of agriculture and forestry.

The core zone of the Plagefenn is a total reserve . Fishing in the lakes and hunting are ceased in this area and entry is prohibited.

In 2005, some ditches were dammed because the precipitation was decreasing and further drying out of the landscape should be prevented or at least slowed down . Beavers have resettled in the nature reserve and are now partially stowing them. The Lieper Posse dried up in 2000 and only a ditch flowed through it. In cadastral maps from 1912, the entire Posse was shown as a moor.

literature

• 100 years of the Plagefenn nature reserve . Eberswalder Forstliche Schriftenreihe Volume XXXI. Ed .: MLUV des Landes Brandenburg Landesforstanstalt Eberswalde, proceedings for the anniversary event from May 11 to 12, 2007 in Chorin, Eberswalde 2007 ( PDF ; 5.77 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 years of Plagefenn nature reserve (= Eberswalder Forstliche Schriftenreihe. Volume XXXI). Page 22: basis of names.
2. ↑ Management plan for the FFH area Plagefenn (DE 3149-303): long version, p. 8 (PDF, 16.7 MB). State Office for the Environment Brandenburg, May 2019.
3. ↑ 100 years of Plagefenn nature reserve (= Eberswalder Forstliche Schriftenreihe. Volume XXXI). Page 32: 3.2.4 Forest pasture (grazing, guarding and guarding justice).
4. ↑ 100 years of Plagefenn nature reserve (= Eberswalder Forstliche Schriftenreihe. Volume XXXI). Page 25: Plagefenn - nature reserve on a legal basis.

Web link

Commons : Plagefenn  - collection of images

Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 22.7 "  N , 13 ° 57 ′ 14.4"  E