Baltic Uplands

The Baltic country back, called in Germany and Northern ridge, is a 200 km wide moraine ridge that borders the southern Baltic Sea from Jutland to Estonia. It has its name from the Baltic Sea, the former name for the Baltic Sea.

Geography

The country back of the hill Wieżyca ( German Turmberg ) has a height of 329 m npm reached, the westernmost part of the East European Plain. In the north it gradually changes into the Gulf of Finland. To the east, the Belarusian ridge connects; in the southeastern ridge gradually changes into the Palessje Lowland. In the south the land falls gradually from the sprawling Vistula Lowland. In the West, already connects the North German Plain, in the northwest of the site slopes to the west of Schleswig -Holstein to the North Sea from the hills.

The Baltic ridge is traversed by the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman and the Dvina. For ridges include (seen in the west-east direction) Fishing, Schwansen that Hüttener mountains, the Danish Wold, Holstein Switzerland, the Mecklenburg Switzerland, the Pomeranian Lake District ( with the tower mountain ), the Masurian Lakes ( with the Seesker height ) and the Niederlitauische country back.

Business, tourism, landscape

The flat wave Grundmoränenlandschaften are fertile and allow profitable farming. The chains of lakes and Endmoränenzüge are popular vacation areas. The barren sand areas are spacious covered by coniferous forest (eg Schorfheide, Tuchel Heath, Heath Rominter ).