Westhavelland Nature Park
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| Location: | Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Next city: | Rathenow | ||
| Surface: | 1,315 km² | ||
| Founding: | June 11, 1998 | ||
| Address: | Nature park administration Dorfstrasse 5 |
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The Westhavelland Nature Park is located in the state of Brandenburg , about 70 km west of Berlin , on the border with the state of Saxony-Anhalt and was opened in June 1998. With an area of 1,315 km², it is the largest protected area in Brandenburg and includes the largest contiguous wetland in inland Europe. The nature park is mostly in the Havelland district and partly in the Potsdam-Mittelmark and Ostprignitz-Ruppin districts , the city of Brandenburg an der Havel is on the southern edge, and the district town of Rathenow is in the center of the nature park .
Characteristic
The landscape was shaped by the Vistula Ice Age around 20,000 years ago. Large bog and marshland areas such as the Havelländische Luch , the Rhinluch and the Dossebruch emerged in the lower elevations. From these lowlands, plateaus rise on ground moraine plates and terminal moraines, the so-called Ländchen , such as the Ländchen Bellin , the Ländchen Glien and the Ländchen Rhinow. As a result of the cultivation of the area, initiated by the Prussian King Friedrich II. In the 18th century, dikes, pumping stations and ditches were built and the mouth of the Havel was relocated to drain the marshy land. A long-term project for the renaturation of the Lower Havel began in 2005 under the sponsorship of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) . Under the motto “Along the blue ribbon of the Havel”, the region is also part of the area of the 2015 Federal Horticultural Show .
Flora and fauna
The nature park is of great importance as a protected area for many migratory birds, which find resting places rich in water and food here in spring and autumn. Part of the Havelländischer Luch is designated as a European bird sanctuary . The state bird sanctuary of the state of Brandenburg is located in the Buckow district of the community of Nennhausen . The heraldic animal of the nature park is the ruff . In total, around 720 animal species live in the nature park, including beavers , otters and great bustards , and around 250 plant species that are considered endangered.
Visitor center
The visitor center of the Westhavelland Nature Park is located in the Milow district of the Milower Land municipality in a former estate complex directly at the mouth of the Stremme into the Havel .
Star Park
The nature park is one of the darkest places in Germany at night, and it is even just as dark as, for example, in Namibia , so that practically only natural light from the sky with a surface brightness of 21.78 mag / arcsec² can be observed. This is why it is possible, for example, not only to see the Milky Way , but also the airglow (a faint glow from higher layers of the atmosphere), which nowadays is usually outshone by artificial scattered light .
After the first light measurements in 2009, plans and checks were made to create a light protection area or a starlight reserve. On February 9, 2014, the International Dark Sky Association (IDA) was the first place in Germany to award the nature park the title of “Star Park”. On the same day, a polar light could be observed in the nature park.
See also
Web links
- Westhavelland Nature Park at the Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg
- Nature watch in the Westhavelland Nature Park
- Star Park Westhavelland The official website of the Star Park Westhavelland
- Star Park Westhavelland , information from Tourismusverband Havelland eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flyer on the Westhavelland Nature Park, publisher: Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg, 2011
- ↑ Star parks in Germany and Europe - Westhavelland Nature Park at: lichtverschendung.de , Vereinigung der Sternfreunde, Dark Sky specialist group, accessed online on April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Stremmel: The Blackest Black The darker the night, the brighter the stars. But where is the darkest place in Germany? A physicist has discovered: in Brandenburg, only 70 kilometers west of Berlin. A center for stargazers is to be built here. at: tagesspiegel.de , December 31, 2012, accessed online on April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Boris Römer: The darkest place in Germany - Free view of the stars in Westhavelland. on: Abendblatt.de , September 9, 2013.
- ↑ Westhavelland Nature Park is the first German star park. ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 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. , February 10, 2014 - 10.14 a.m., 02elf Abendblatt, accessed on February 11, 2014.
- ↑ Award for Westhavelland - Germany's first star park is in Brandenburg ( memento from February 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), February 10, 2014, rbb panorama, accessed on February 11, 2014.
- ↑ wetter.de
