Peat house bog
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 56 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 2 ″ E
The Torfhausmoor, also Great Torfhausmoor or wheel Bornmoor, is part of the Harz National Park in the unincorporated area Harz (Landkreis Goslar) near Torfhaus in Lower Saxony .
description
The Torfhausmoor is around 800 meters above sea level between Torfhaus and the Brocken to the east , in an area with particularly high levels of rainfall. It is around 30 hectares. The peat house bog is one of the rain bogs and has a peat layer that is around 10,000 years old and over five meters thick. The Radau , a tributary of the Oker , rises in the moor, which is also indicated by the name Radaubornmoor.
The Torfhausmoor is located on the Goetheweg and can be explored in a small area in the southwest on a boardwalk .
history
From 1713 to 1786 the moor was used for peat extraction , after which the place Torfhaus got its name. In 1994 it became part of the Harz National Park.
Flora and fauna
Flora and fauna specialize in the rain bog. The forest almost free area is peat moss ( sphagnum ), vaginal cotton grass ( Eriophorum vaginatum ,) the heather ( Calluna vulgaris ), and other dwarf shrubs determined. The dwarf birch ( Betula nana ) and the mud sedge ( Carex limosa ) are found as glacial relics . The round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) also occurs in the peat house moor. The fauna consists mainly of insects and frogs.
Trivia
In the winter of 1928/29, the aviation pioneer Walter Spengler landed repeatedly on the snow-covered peat house moor.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sabine Gorsemann, Christian Kaiser: Harz. Dumont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3770163946 . Digitized version , accessed on July 9, 2013
- ^ Excursion report of the Ruhr University Bochum , accessed on July 9, 2013
- ↑ Walter Spengler. In: flughafenbb.wordpress.com. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .