Schlatt (body of water)
Schlatt or Flatt is the Low German name for a heather pond , a near-natural, standing, mostly outflow-free small body of water of shallow depth, which is fed by surface water and largely unaffected by groundwater. Such bodies of water can have individual inflows and outflows from brooks. The water is dammed by a water-retaining layer. Schlatts can dry up temporarily.
Schlatts are characteristic of the nutrient-poor gees in the North German lowlands . They were mainly created as wind blowout depressions in the periglacial area of the last glacial period . The term is of Low German origin and is mainly used for the waters in the mentioned area.
In the district of Diepholz ( Lower Saxony ), the “ Foundation for Nature Conservation ” has made a contribution to the preservation of Schlatts as part of a “Schlatt program”. In voluntary cooperation with landowners and agriculture, over 300 small bodies of water / Schlatts are being rehabilitated and looked after in order to preserve them as habitats for animal and plant species that have become rare.
literature
- Jan Höper: Flora and vegetation of small bodies of water in agricultural areas of the Diepholz district. Diploma thesis, Göttingen 1999
- Georg Müller: What is a Schlatt? Origin-development-status and legal information , brochure, 13 pages, Verlag G. Müller, Ganderkesee 2009