Rambower peat bog

Autumn aspect in Rambower Moor

The moor has some residual water areas; the largest is called "Rambower See". This one is a little further to the southwest

The Rambower Moor is a flow moor and nature reserve in the district of Prignitz in northwest Brandenburg . The moor is part of the Elbe-Brandenburg River Landscape Biosphere Reserve and has an area of ​​around 450 ha. The area was placed under nature protection by ordinance of May 16, 1990 .

To the southeast of the municipality of Rambow, the flat Rambower See, which is still around 13.5 hectares in size, is centrally located in the moor. The valley is surrounded by the villages of Nausdorf , Boberow , Mellen and Rambow, which belong to the municipalities of Lenzen (Elbe) and Karstädt . Numerous springs feed the moor and flow through it. The moor is habitat for the bittern and many other threatened animal and plant species. Some old peat cuttings and numerous drainage ditches are in the bog. The water of the moor is collected in the Nausdorfer Canal and discharged into the Rudower See .

The channel-like surface shape of the surroundings of the Rambower Moor and the Rudower See can be traced back to a collapse of the subsoil, which can be dated from a hall glacial . Hydrogen solution and leaching of rock salt within the northern part of the Gorleben-Rambower salt structure formed extensive cavities, which finally collapsed and the striking, ten-kilometer-long and sometimes over one-kilometer-wide Rambow-Lenzen Gully on the surface of the terrain on what is now the northeastern side of the Elbe let arise. Mostly wooded edge slopes run all around the collapse, the heights of a maximum of 54.5  m above sea level. Reach NN . The valley gully is largely moored or has open water surfaces (the largest is Rudower See).

The conservation of the Rambower Moor is being promoted with an EU Life project . In the course of this project were u. a. Barrages were placed in the trenches and extensive mapping was carried out. The moor is the subject of numerous diploma and doctoral theses.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Prignitz district

literature

• Elisabeth von Falkenhausen : Discover the Prignitz - nature and culture of a region . 5th, updated and expanded edition. Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-930388-70-7 , Rudower See and Rambower Moor, p. 195 .

Web links

Commons : Rambower Torfmoor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Declaration on the biosphere reserve "River Landscape Elbe - Brandenburg" from March 18, 1999 on bravors.brandenburg.de; therein: nature reserves ... 6. Rambower peat bog
• EU-Life-Project Rambower Moor
• The Rambower Moor is "the most beautiful natural wonder of 2014"
• World Database on Protected Areas - Rambower Torfmoor (English)

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 36 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 37 ″  E