Düben Heath

The Dubin Heath is a landscape in the east of Saxony -Anhalt and northern Saxony, between the Elbe and Mulde, on the northern outskirts of Leipzig lowlands.

Geography

Limited it is in the west of Dessau, in the north of the Labe ( Wittenberg, Pretzschendorf ), in the southeast of Torgau, in the south of haste castle and the course of depression over Bad Duben and Bitterfeld.

Geology

The Dubin Heath is an embossed by the Saale ice age moraine landscape ( plateau of Graefenhainichen - Schmiedeberg ) with predominantly sandy soils. Under this cover of Pleistocene Store / camped lignite -bearing strata. The majority of the Duebener Heath is covered with forest.

Use

The eastern part of Duebener Heath with the spa town of Bad Duben is designated as a nature park Duebener Heath. In the western part of Graefenhainichen and Bitterfeld to the end of the 1980s, brown coal was mined by open pit, which the forest landscape was destroyed large areas. Meanwhile, the open pits will be rehabilitated and flooded the remaining holes. Near Graefenhainichen developed on a peninsula in the flooded open pit " Ferro Polis ", a technology museum, are shown in the surface mining equipment and rolling stock.

In GDR times, operating a summer camp of the teaching combine " Grotewohl " was operated in the old angle grinder.

Dialects

As varied as the Dubin Heath presents scenic, were so different then the languages ​​spoken in their dialects, where it is sub-species of the Upper Saxon, which belongs to the central German -speaking world. Contributed to this development in several settlement phases, limits of domination areas and outside influences.

Due to the settlement of displaced persons from the German eastern territories in the 1940s, labor migration, the influence of literature, press, radio and television, the dialects of the Duebener Heath nowadays hardly spoken.