Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park

Beelitzer Str 24 14947 Nuthe glacial valley, OT Dobbrikow

Located south-west of Berlin Nuthe Nieplitz was opened in August 1999. Covering an area of 623 square kilometers, the park takes in a total of eleven nature parks in Brandenburg in the area, type a middle seat. The landscape is dominated by the humid lowlands of the rivers Nuthe and Nieplitz, through forest and farmland with small Brandenburg villages.

• 4.1 Nuthe and Nieplitz
• 4.2 Larger Lakes and New Lake Country

• 5.1 Less common and larger birds
• 5.2 Wild
• 5.3 Less common Flowers

• 6.1 Blankensee - place, castle and lake
• 6.2 Stangenhagen - Mußpreußen and renaturation
• 6.3 Gröben - church book and Kietzmann
• 6.4 Other activities and attractions 6.4.1 Fixed

Location and structure data

The park is located between flaming, Teltow (Landscape) and Zauche in Baruth and Nuthe- glacial valley southwest of Berlin and south of Potsdam. It is located about half way in the district of Potsdam- agent Mark and in the Teltow -Flaming. Larger towns in the park are Saar mouth, Beelitz and Treuenbrietzen. Practically on the boundary of the park are Jiiterbog, Kloster Zinna, Luckenwalde and Trebbin, while the boundary line around these cities makes one sheet and saves them. The park is bounded on the north by the railway line between Saar mouth and Ahrens, on the eastern edge are Siethen, Thyrow and Löwendorf. The eastern boundary extends further along the federal road 101 until shortly before Jiiterbog, the southwestern border lies approximately on a line Jiiterbog - Treuenbrietzen, the western boundary are the places Nichel, German Bork, Alt Bork, Schäpe, Beelitz, Beelitz, Seddin and Wild break.

A significant part of the park area is attributable to the greater community Nuthe- glacial valley. Fourteen of the twenty-three villages and about two -fifths of the 335 km ² are very extensive area of ​​this community in the park. With 13,265 hectares of protected areas take 21% and with 41,700 ha nature reserve and another 65 % of the total area of the Park ( 62 323 ha) a. Of this amount, 25 % arable land, 28 % on green areas, 41% of the forest and 2% on water surfaces. The total population as of 2003 stood at around 30,000, which corresponds to a population density of 28 inhabitants / km ². The average in Germany is comparatively with 231 inhabitants / km ² eightfold higher and Berlin is 3,800 inhabitants / km ².

Formation and characterization

The central area of ​​the Park, the Nuthe Nieplitz lowlands, was formed at the end of the Weichsel glaciation as Zwischenurstromtal the defrosting glaciers about 20,000 years ago. The water masses and the wandering glaciers left between the end moraine Flaming or the upstream Baruth glacial valley and the Berlin glacial valley, the plateau Zauche on the western and Teltow at the eastern edge of the valley as a gently undulating deposits of gravel, marl and sand, which are shared by the low country. Remnants of terminal moraines form in the Schmelzwassertal smaller surveys such as the highest mountain in the park, the 103 -meter Near Lion villages Mountain or striking in the flat landscape Glauer mountains with a height of around 90 meters, as a small " mountain " about four kilometers length between the Blankensee and Nuthe extend in small Bytom. Deeper, typical Mark Brandenburg sand forms the surface of the pine -covered mountains.

Namesake of the Jungmoränenlandes are the rivers Nuthe and Nieplitz that characterize its characteristic landscape with wet meadows, marshy lowlands, shallow lakes and irrigation channels; several smaller Elsbrüche as the Siethener and Saarmunder Elsbruch offer the alder their preferred moist habitat. Fields, orchards, small mountains and hills, sheep, water mills, villages and natural ash avenues form a varied and silent cultural landscape together with a small-scale change of biotopes.

Protected areas in the park

Nature reserves, overview

In the nature reserve there are the following six nature reserves (NSG ), which have a total share of 21 % of the total area of the Nature Park:

NSG Nuthe Nieplitz lowland

The NSG Nuthe Nieplitz lowlands as the core area of ​​the Park is located at the headwaters of Nuthe and Nieplitz, which flow together on Gröbener Kietzmann and form an open, interspersed with wet meadows and fens landscape. Agricultural fields, woods and the below mentioned natural pond with its extensive reed beds complement the landscape typical small-scale habitats that provide a wide variety of species. The lion mountain villages and the Glauer mountains lie in this part of the park and loosen the flat landscape. The NSG ranges from Dobbrikow in the south to about the Berlin ring road, the A10 to the north. In the east, the area is limited by the flow pepper and through by the Nieplitz chain of lakes. The western boundary is located approximately on the line instincts - Kähnsdorf. In addition to the largest lake in the parks, the Blankensee include shallow lakes as the Poschfenn, the Katzwinkel or Fresdorfer lake nature reserve. These ponds are located in marshy lowlands at Saarmunder Endmoränenbogen who completes the Zauche in the east to Nuthe Nieplitz Lowland.

NSG Upper pepper flow

The strongly meandering flow in the upper reaches pepper is a right tributary of the Nieplitz and forms the 250 -hectare nature reserve Upper pepper flow, which is designated as a nature reserve since April 2003. The measures of the corresponding Regulation of 14 April 2003 on the protection of the nature reserve, the natural area is part of the " Luckenwalder Heide " and plays an important role in the regional habitat network, led to an already visible near-natural river morphology with extensively used buffer zones. When high ground water level of the stream flows on alluvial soil ( Flachmoortorf on clay at near groundwater ) through vast reed beds and sedge. Remains of a very rare today in Brandenburg English oak- hornbeam forest and dry lawns complement the current image of nature. The regulation is presented in detail in the article pepper flow.

NSG Zarth

From a very different character than the Nuthe Nieplitz lowlands and pepper flow is the NSG Zarth: an almost jungle- like, moist and dense forest, which captures the largely inaccessible swamp forest to the Spreewald. The swampy area, whose name derives from the Slavic " tschert " or the " tschort " = devil comes and Felwood could mean lies to the east of Treuenbrietzen directly under the source areas of northern Flaming slope in Baruth glacial valley. Several leveling spring in the NSG and form ponds and small lakes.

To find the biotope typical black alder and ash trees and in some higher elevations, a common oak -hornbeam forest on the wettest places. At the 340 plant species have been recorded, including five different species of orchids alone. The European pond turtle finds the necessary clear streams and the very rare black stork, the preferred hiding in the dense forest. This highly protected NSG Zarth can and should cross only on a path that Treuenbrietzen connects to the southeastern village Bardenitz.

The NSG Zarth to the Natura assumed 2000, which refers to a transnational system of protected areas within the European Union, consisting of the Special Areas of Conservation (SAC ) of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Directive ( FFH Directive ) Regulations 1992 and the Special Protected Areas (SPA ), the birds Directive formed in 1979.

NSG Forst Zinna Jiiterbog Wedge Mountain

The southeastern corner of the nature reserve, the NSG forest Zinna Jiiterbog Wedge mountain on a former military training site, is a registered divided into three zones restricted area with about 7200 hectares. For years, natural, here is a rare habitat has evolved; over 600 different types of ferns and flowering plants were detected in 2004. There is also a nine -acre dune, a few years ago still active Flugsanddüne in the German inland. A network of hiking, biking and riding trails on the edges to make the NSG in the future to life.

NSG Rough Luch

The only 42 -acre NSG Rough Luch is a rare for the lowland areas of the region between Moor, which was created by the silting up of a basin. The former peat cutting holes filled with water and with the remains of the bog habitat specialists such as the typical intermediate marsh and swamp plants bogbean blood eye. The NSG is between Trebbin and Luckenwalde west of the Nuthe and village Liebätz and south of Märtensmühle.

Formerly planned NSG Dobbrikower meadows and vineyard

The estimated 50 ha also very small planned but unrealized NSG is with the vineyard southwest of the Dobbrikower Vordersee and draws on the west bank of the Bauernsee along through the wet heath direction Nett Wittgendorf and then runs to the east in the Dobbrikower meadows, particularly protected breeding area for birds are. During the 72 -meter-high mountain as a typical Brandenburg deposition of migratory Ice Age glacier heat- loving plants native to its barren expanse of sand and dry soil, provide a small Elsbruch the alder and the meadows the moisture- loving specialists below their preferred habitat. The under protection procedures for Dobbrikower meadows and vineyards ceased on 27 November 2007.

LSG Nuthetal - Beelitzer Sander

In addition to the six nature reserves a LSG, the landscape conservation area Nuthetal - Beelitzer Sander located in the Natural Park, which overlaps with an area of ​​41 682 ha ( 65% of the total park area) to part with the NSG Nuthe Nieplitz lowlands. In addition to the wetlands, especially the pine forests of the barren and dry Beelitzer Sander shape the face of the LSG. The so-called Beelitzer Sander of the western plateau Zauche has the shape of the cone Sander and reaches a width of about 17 kilometers. To the north, the elongated shaft Sander forms the topographic threshold for deeper Havel country.

Waters

Nuthe and Nieplitz

The eponymous rivers originate in the source areas of northern flaming. The centuries-long attempts to dry up swamps of the lowlands, were made on the establishment of extensive canal systems and on the regulation of rivers, so that made ​​history. The efforts to enable the country to those required of Frederick the Great usable state are described in more detail in the article Gröben. On the ecosystems of rivers and leveling the posts Stangenhagen and pepper flow go.

Larger lakes and New Lake Country

Untreated Still waters with extensive reed beds: Riebener lake, Blankensee, Grössinsee, Schiaßer lake, Gröbener lake. These lakes are traversed and connected up to the lake from the Gröbener Nieplitz. Lakes with bathing facilities: Large Seddiner lake, Lake Siethener, Dobbrikower Vordersee.

In addition, new small shallow lakes, such as the Swan at Stangenhagen, close to the bird observation tower form located on pepper yield since the 1990s. The Neuseebildung based on the shutdown of the pumping stations, the dry- laid over decades the moors and wetlands in favor of agriculture. After turning off the water flooded very quickly meadows and pastures.

Animals and plants in the park

Less frequent and larger birds

• Lapwing, Ortolan, Red Kite, Black Kite, Marsh Harrier, Osprey, Eagle, Buzzard, Goshawk, Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Kestrel,
• Crane ( whose image is the logo of the park decorates ), egrets, Swan, White Stork ( each village has its stork ) and occasionally the rare black stork in Brandenburg.
• In autumn and spring staging area of about 45,000 by withdrawing wild geese, bean geese in particular and, more rarely, Bless geese.
• Water and wading birds such as mute swan, coot, mallard and cormorant.

Game

Fallow deer, red deer. European mouflon and wolves.

Rarer flowers

The nature park is rich in moisture- loving plants such as dyer 's Charter, snakes knotweed, marsh iris and water - cress. In addition to carnations, heather and many other flowers isolated orchids, swan flowers, forest gold star and Pestwurzen are encountered.

Villages and tourism

The following villages have special for the ecology, history or culture of the nature park significance and are briefly presented here with their most interesting aspects; detailed representations contained in each village posts.

Blankensee - place, castle and lake

Located in the heart of the Natural Park, the village Blankensee lies with the eponymous lake. The place has a small castle with a magnificent park, which is crossed by several tributaries of the Nieplitz. Curved bridges, Italian garden, small temples and statues give the castle grounds a special touch. The castle, rather a manor house ( building), once belonged to the writer Hermann Sudermann. Notable in Blankensee beekeeping are also right next to the castle and the Farmers' Museum, which is housed in a 1649 built the Mark medium-floor house.

Stangenhagen - Mußpreußen and renaturation

The neighboring village Stangenhagen is noteworthy in historical terms as a former Saxon " enclave " in the middle of Prussia ( Mußpreußen ) and coined by Theodor Fontane concept of Thümenschen angle. Ecologically, the centrally located in the nature park village plays an important role in the Moor recovery on pepper yield. With one targeted at a gentle tourism local sustainability strategy ( urban planning ) with the provided rod Hagen lake and a already created bird observation tower and a circular route through the bog regeneration tried the village to compensate for the agricultural disadvantage of re- flooded meadows.

Gröben - church book and Kietzmann

The village Gröben lies on the northern edge of the natural park about six kilometers from the city Ludwigsfelde, to which it belongs as the district today. Gröben has the oldest surviving church register (1575 ) of the Mark Brandenburg, the Theodor Fontane has repeatedly viewed and processed in his works. The "open " church with foundations dating from the 12th century and rich murals and ceiling ornaments can look back on an eventful history of building. The Gröbener Kietzmann is one of the few "real " original kietze. The intact cultural landscape of the Natural Park at the confluence of Nuthe and Nieplitz directly in front of the gates of Berlin led after the reunification with tourist offers for a new economic orientation of the village.

Other activities and attractions

In various places wagon rides are offered; There are a number of riding stables and riding trails; Hiking trails and bike paths are well signposted in large numbers. In the village Kemnitz the community Nuthe- glacial valley typical of these Brandenburg region is known as Nuthe Nieplitz House (formerly also Spiekerhus ) preserved and restored, a farm, whose house is made entirely of timber and its memory is placed on the gable of the dwelling house ( see picture).

In addition to the inviting landscape and natural monuments also stand out:

• Kloster Zinna ( Cistercian monastery),
• Historic town centers of Jiiterbog, Luckenwalde, Beelitz and Treuenbrietzen
• Beelitz
• Asparagus Museum in Schlunkendorf
• Game reserve Glauer Valley
• Observation towers Blankensee and Stangenhagen ( waterfowl, Rest geese and cranes )
• Nature conservation center pieces ( with excursions, wildlife viewing and hiking )
• In 2004 newly furnished the flaming- Walk, a Nordic walking route with several round trips through the park, including beginners' route between Wittbrietzen, instincts, Dobbrikow, Nice Wittgendorf, God village and Kemnitz.

Festivals

• Pentecost Sunday: Horse Festival in Salzbrunn
• April to October: Blankenseer Music Summer
• June: Asparagus Festival in Beelitz
• June: Sabinchenfest in Treuenbrietzen
• July: Blasmusikfest in pieces
• September: Museum Festival in Blankensee
• September: Fontane Festival in Gröben.

See also: Nuthetal, nature conservation, tourism in Brandenburg, bike routes in Brandenburg