Lappwald

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The Lappwald is a 20 km long and up to 5 km wide, passed with forest mountain range in Germany. It extends from Helmstedt to the north. The border between Lower Saxony and Saxony -Anhalt runs through the woods, with about three-quarters belong to Lower Saxon territory. The Lappwald is within the Elm- Lappwald, a part of the forest is under protection.

Location

The Lappwald runs from north - west to south -east parallel to Elm, which lies about 10 km to the west. The forest area of the Lappwaldes is largely uninhabited. In it are as settlements of the district of Helmstedt Helmstedt Bad and the Harbker district highway in the south and the former barracks of the airfield Mariental -Horst in the north.

History

The first written mention is the Lappwald as " Lapvualt " in the year 1147. A unique name interpretation, for " Lappwald " not. The most likely hypothesis is based on the concept of hunting " Einlappens ". The Lappwald was for many centuries a border forest between the Brunswick and Prussian territory. Many smugglers and other criminal elements, including the famous " robber captain rose ," took advantage of the extreme situation of the forest. In the 20th century, the Inner German Border the Lappwald, former braunschweigisch - Prussian border demarcation shared the following.

Northeast of Helmstedt found in Lappwald grave remains of the Landwehr in the direction Walbeck. Get to buildings are still waiting two towers from the 13th century, referred to as first and second Walbecker waiting. Another well preserved medieval watchtower is located right on the main road 1 towards Magdeburg on the edge of Lappwaldes.

Geology

Geologically, the Lappwald which reaches 211 m altitude in the Heidberg, a trough that appears lifted horst -like only by a stronger lowering of the adjacent layers. During the Cretaceous period, a period of 71 million years ago, the sea flooded in several flood stages limestone, marl and sand in the Helmstedt and Schöppenstedter trough and thus covered the bedrock. Other marine incursions in the following tertiary created in the Helmstedter trough large bog areas, the umbildeten under subtropical climate powerful lignite fields.