Todtlaake

View over the Todtlaake

The Todtlaake is a moored wetland. It is located northeast of the district of Ketzür and southwest of the district of Gortz in the municipality of Beetzseeheide . It formed in a glacial meltwater channel.

History of origin

The Todtlaake northeast of the village of Ketzür developed in the course of the last, the Vistula Cold Period, in a flat valley, which is flanked by two chains of hills. The hills were formed by glacier ice advancing from Scandinavia during the Brandenburg phase . The northwestern chain stretches from the Mühlberg (61.9 meters), over the Mosesberg (62.9 meters) to the Hasselberg (58.8 meters). It was formed in the ice edge layer 2 b. The south-eastern chain formed on the ice edge layer 3 forms a hill also called Hasselberg (52.7 meters), the Flachsberg (64.6 meters) and the Hüselberg (66.3 meters). Meltwater from the ice flowed through the valley in the Gortzer glacier tongue basin , northwest of the Hasselberg – Mühlberg range, to the Beetzseerinne , the Beetzsee. In the same meltwater channel, the Gortzer Laake formed northwest of Gortz at the foot of the glacier tongue basin.

use

The Todtlaake is drained via the main Ketzür trench. The areas are used for agriculture. There are several so-called inland salt points in the Todtlaake , so that the entire area is characterized by typical salt marshes . The meadows are mostly grazed or mowed extensively.

Protected areas

Various protected areas include the Todtlaake. So it is in the nature park Westhavelland and in the conservation area Westhavelland. It is also part of the SPA area (European bird sanctuary) Mittlere Havelniederung and the FFH area Beetzseerinne and Niederungen. In addition, parts of two protected landscape components, Todtlaake Ketzür and Todtlaake Gortz, are placed under protection as a protected biotope .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Weisse : Contributions to the Weichselkaltzeitlichen morphogens of the Elbhavelwinkel. Series of publications by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Potsdam April 2003, ISBN 3-935024-73-8 . P. 74, Fig. 4.4.1.
2. ↑ EU-Life-Project "Inland Salt Points Brandenburg". Havelland project area. Ministry of the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection, July 8, 2013, accessed July 22, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Part sheet Northwest Protected Areas. In: Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark landscape framework plan. Office for Environmental and Landscape Planning, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 12.2 "  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 19.3"  E