Eider-Treene Depression

The Eider- Treene lowlands is a landscape in western Schleswig -Holstein. Along the rivers Eider, Treene and concern extends to approximately 500 square kilometers.

It is the largest wetland grassland region of Schleswig-Holstein. It comprises about one- third of the bog areas of the province and is the habitat of the largest inland accumulation of meadow birds.

To the north, its boundary approximately between Hollingstedt and Treia, in the east, near Rendsburg, in the south it extends to the boggy at the Hanerau and Haaler Au over today's North Sea-Baltic Canal beyond. The western border with Eiderstedter march is somewhat unclear, since march, Moore and Geest dovetail closely. The area consists of the valleys of the rivers and the intervening Geest cores. The landscape was formed firstly in various ice ages, on the other hand has been characterized by various Abdämmungen the Eider, which to Rendsburg was a Tidefluss until well into the 1920s,. The area tried lately, increasingly from nature tourism to benefit, with both offering hiking, horseback riding, cycling and canoeing.