Burgdorf-Peine Geest

The Burgdorf- Peine Geest is a company controlled by end and ground moraine Geest between Hannover and Braunschweig in Lower Saxony. The area, also called the Burgdorf- Peine Geest plates or Burgdorf- Peine sand plates, is part of the Lower Saxon countryside der Geest, occupying large parts of the North German lowlands.

Location

The Burgdorf- Peine Geest has an area of ​​approximately 550 km ². Their boundaries are the Aller, in the south the Hildesheimer Borde and partly to the Mittelland Canal, to the east the Okerniederung and the Hanoverian Moor Geest in the west to the north. Today, it is bordered by the towns of Hanover, Burgdorf, Uetze, Braunschweig, Vechelde, Peine and Taught. The area is crossed by the Mittelland Canal, from the A 2 and B 188 in east-west direction.

Landscape

The entire area has Geest with its village settlements on a rural character. One exception is the industrial town of Peine represents the surface of the Burgdorf- Peine Geest is slightly wavy. It is divided by lowlands as the Fuhse ( running in north-south direction ) and valleys with fens.

Use

The original forests have often been turned into cropland. A larger remaining forest area is forest at the Hämeler Hämelerwald. Dominating the landscape are arable land, which bring as arable crops rye, oats and potatoes good yields. On the sandy, dry soils of the asparagus cultivation is widespread. Especially the Burgdorfer asparagus is known nationwide. Due to the poor soils and the livestock is widely used in agriculture. In Hänigsen a loamy moraine occurs closer to the surface, improving soil quality. The sandy areas of the Geest are mostly occupied with forestry used pine forests. Deciduous forest occurs only sporadically in the form of common oak - birch forest.