Red lynx

Red Luch between Berlin and the Oderbruch

Fen landscape

The Rote Luch is the highest part of the Ice Age Buckower Rinne , which connects the Berlin Urstromtal near Erkner with the Oderbruch in the Eberswalder Urstromtal near Neutrebbin and separates the northwestern plateau of Barnim from the southeastern part of Lebus .

history

After the cold spell of the Last Ice Age, snow and ice melted and collected as meltwater in the Red Luch, among other places. Little by little the water disappeared; the ground deepened and silted up.

During the Nazi era, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Agriculture used forced labor at this location. From 1956 to 1993, the NVA Air Force's 14th Intelligence Regiment was stationed here.

Design

The Rote Luch is about 11 km long and a good one kilometer wide and contains a pseudobifurcation or valley watershed . The water level is in the apex area at 46.3 m above sea level. NHN , the ground level is 25 to 40 meters lower than the surrounding moraine hills . The meadow area of the Luches is almost completely bordered by forest to the south-east, while farmland also connects to the north-west. The Luch is part of the Märkische Schweiz Nature Park . From the trenches in the Luch, especially the dead straight main trench, the water flows northeastwards as the 27 km long Stöbber through the Märkische Schweiz into the Oderbruch and merges there 3.8 m above sea level with an Old Oder , from this mouth to Wriezen too Friedländer Strom called. To the southwest, the water leaves the Luch as Stöbberbach and flows almost 10 km from the apex area and about 6 km from the southwest end of the Luchs into the Löcknitz , which rises at the Bienenwerder forester above the Maxsee , which after 25 km at 32.4 m above NHN into the Dämeritzsee of the Spree flows out. In the apex area, the Rote Luch is crossed by the Berlin – Kostrzyn line , formerly part of the Prussian Eastern Railway . The Rotes Luch station is out of service today.

fauna and Flora

In the area there are lime-rich fens, forests with old stock of alder , ash and softwood alluvial forests . On the open areas the visitor will find basic sand and steppe lawns, adjoining oak and hornbeam forests . The kingfisher , whinchat , red-backed shrike and middle woodpecker have been identified in the area. The otters , the wolffish , the mud whip and the beaver live in the rivers . The region is also the habitat of the river mussel and the flat post squirrel . Spotted orchid , real watercress , wall gypsum and broad-leaved orchid grow on the open areas .

Access

The area is accessed by several hiking trails. For example, one leads from the Rehfeld district of Werder for 17 km to the Luch and back to the starting point via Zinndorf .