Prignitz (natural area)
The Prignitz is a natural area in the North Brandenburg plateau and hill country . It represents the main unit 770 in the natural division of Germany .
location
The Prignitz is located in the northwest of the state of Brandenburg and, to a small extent, in the southwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The predominant part of the natural landscape of Prignitz belongs to the historical landscape of the same name, which encompasses other areas .
In the north the natural landscape borders on the Ruhner Berge and Parchim-Meyenburger sand areas , in the northeast on the Mecklenburg Lake District , in the east on the Dossiederung , in the southeast on Kyritzer Platte and Perleberger Heide , in the southwest on the Elbe valley , in the west on the Lewitz and the valley of the lower Elde .
The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation includes the Kyritzer Platte in the Prignitz natural area.
description
Geomorphologically , the Prignitz is mainly a slightly undulating ground moraine plate with heights of around 40 to over 100 meters. The highest point is at Halenbeck at almost 153 meters. There are also individual terminal and compression moraines hill chains. The Prignitz is traversed by partly boggy river valleys, especially those of Löcknitz , Stepenitz , Dömnitz and Kümmernitz . They essentially follow the incline of the slab from northeast to southwest.
The Prignitz is a predominantly arable agricultural landscape with sandy soils. On the ridges and in a larger forest area in the east of the landscape there are mainly pines , in the lowlands next to grassland alder .
literature
- Eberhard Scholz: The natural spatial structure of Brandenburg . Pedagogical District Cabinet, Potsdam 1962, p. 77 f .
Web links
- Landscape profile Prignitz of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niederung der lower Elde (BfN) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Landscape profile 77001 Prignitz. (No longer available online.) Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 10, 2013 (see map). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
