Serrahner Mountains

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Beech forest in the Serrahn mountains

The Serrahner Berge are a forested range of hills in the municipality of Carpin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The eponymous place Serrahn is located a little north of the ridge. To the east is the Schweingartensee , a little to the south-west of the Große Fürstenseer See .

The up to 124.2  m above sea level. NHN high hills are located in the eastern part of the Müritz National Park . The mountains are first mentioned in an official description from 1569. There it says that "the Schweingahrdische See between Zerrahnschen and Goldbowischen Holtz is occupied".

For the period from 1614 to 1623 sales of timber and timber from the "Zerrahn Mountains" to the surrounding towns were documented. According to this, the forest must have been cleared to such an extent before the middle of the 16th century that at the end of the 16th century large flocks of sheep were grazing in the Serrahn Mountains.

At the end of the Thirty Years' War , large parts of the area fell into desolation and the forest expanded again. So it says from the year 1688: "The Zerrahn Mountains are always rich from Eychen Mast and then Holtz, and 465 pigs can be made fat in them."

At the beginning of the 18th century, at the instigation of Duke Adolf Friedrich II of Strelitz, numerous glassworks and potash distilleries were founded. The Serrahner Berge are spared of this due to the poor traffic situation and the forests are largely preserved.

This made it a popular hunting area and forest botanical test facility for the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

During the GDR era, the mountains were known as a nature reserve and seat of the larger state hunting area "Wilhelminenhof Wildlife Research Area ".

The beech forests of the Serrahner Berge have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites along with four other German beech forests since June 2011 . They are the last remaining near-natural beech forests in Germany.

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  1. ↑ www.mueritz-nationalpark.de ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Spiegel-Online from June 25, 2011

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '  N , 13 ° 12'  E