Cloppenburg Geest

The Cloppenburg Geest Geest is a near Cloppenburg. It extends from Heart Lake in the west to the east, and Barnstorf of Wildeshausen in the north to the south of Vechta and thereby covers the south of the counties of Cloppenburg and Oldenburg and the north of the district of Vechta. It extends into the districts of Diepholz and Emsland.

The Cloppenburg Geest is the heartland of the Saale glacial Höhenpleistozäns the EMS Hunte Geest. The melt-water sands of the advancing glaciers covered the old terrain with Vorschüttsanden. Woldstedt speaks of " lower sand " that belong in the " Kloppenburg - Bassumer - Geest " Elster glaciation. He did about the Vorschüttsande the Geschiebelehmdecke the Saale glacial period, or more precisely the Drenthe Stage from.

For the surface of Cloppenburg Geest Durchrinnung a characteristic that was decisive for the development of the river network. Numerous parallel flat channels traverse the terrain and create a parallel back landscape. For the emergence of the rivers two opposing theories are mentioned. Hausfeld leads back their origin to large crevasses of Drentheeises, abflossen through during defrosting of the glacier meltwater, ground moraine cut and eintieften in the Vorschüttsande. Woldstedt speaks of " Women" in a different context. The advancing ice following the depth contours, preserved and deepened it. In the " Women" stayed with the glacier retreat deep sunken lie dead ice, the thawing then the rivers gave access to their old valleys.

During the regression of the sea level in the Vistula ice age, which ended about 12,000 years ago, in the northwest German lowlands was not covered by ice, the rivers of Cloppenburg Geest dug deep into the valley sands. At this time, put the formation of the flight and a dune sands, due to a drying up of the union rand area.

The climate of the post-glacial Holocene was wetter and warmer. Sea-level rise as a base level of the rivers probably also had an increase in the groundwater level in the lowland Geest result. In the valleys were formed powerful Niedermoortorfe while growing up on the Talrändern and in larger sinks fells.

The deciduous forest areas Mr. Wood, the nature reserve ( NSG) Baumweg and the reaching into the Delmenhorster Geest NSG Baeken the Endeler and Holzhauser Heide ( swamp forest, stream, swamp ) are as Special Areas of Conservation ( Protected Areas in nature and landscape protection under the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Directive) reported.