Fläming Nature Park

Rotdornstr.12 06 882 Jeber mountain peace

The nature park Flaming is the sixth and newest nature park in Saxony- Anhalt. Opened in 2005, large protected area covers an area of ​​82 425 hectares and is located in the south between the flaming Elbaue and neighboring Brandenburg Hoher Flaming.

Surface portions of the park, the counties Anhalt- Bitterfeld and Wittenberg, as well as a small part of the 1,000 acres of county-level city of Dessau. The character of this sparsely populated parks determines the agricultural and forestry dominated hills of glacial mountain range formed flaming.

• 4.1 Rivers and Lakes
• 4.2 Flora and trails
• 4.3 Fauna
• 4.4 Landscape and Nature Reserves

Area, villages, location

Area distribution, cities and towns

The Ostwestausdehnung the nature park Flaming is from Zerbst and Klebitz about 50 kilometers, the Nordsüdausdehnung between Roßlau and Reuden around 20 kilometers.

The total area of the Natural Park is 82 425 hectares.

The nature center is located in a converted former school in Jeber mountain peace just behind the train station of the Regional -Express ( RE 7 ) which connects Berlin with Bad Belzig Dessau. The village is situated on a ridge between the valley of Rossel and southern Nuthe.

Nature park boundary

The eastern boundary starts just north of Klebitz and runs in the first part along the border with Brandenburg and then continue past Zallmsdorf and Leetza after Mühlanger in the River Elbe. Here, the boundary line turns west and reaches above the national road 187 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, lying with her center and historic center in the natural park area. Continue along the B187 leads the southern boundary of the city on Coswig Roßlau, which also belongs to the reserve. The border then takes the path to the northwest along the highway 184 and includes a part of the village and Dessau- district Rodleben. West of Jütrichau she leaves the B184 and bypasses, first along the Häkengrabens, the city of Zerbst, which does not count its core to the park area.

The western boundary runs north from Zerbst Zernitz and Lindau up into the wood east of Bien Hobeck. Here the boundary bends sharply to the east. The northern boundary runs above Lietzo, Deetz and Nedlitz on the border with Rosian / Schweinitz and take between Reuden and Reppinichen on the border with Brandenburg and thus also on the border with the neighboring " Hoher Flaming ". The northern boundary runs above Golmenglin, Stackelitz, Senst until after Boßdorf parallel to the adjacent park and then remains above Kropstädt and Rahn village on the country's border to Klebitz.

Adjacent parks

In Coswig the park on the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve, which stretches along the river from Wittenberg until after Gommern and includes the Dessau- Wörlitz with the UNESCO World Heritage Woerlitzer park borders. With the opening of the Natural Park is a huge area has been created with different protection levels, ranging from the Belziger countryside meadows in the north about the park and the natural park Hoher Flaming Flaming to the Southern Elbe floodplain. A few kilometers south-east of Orange Tree joins the biosphere reserve with the heather moors of the Heide Nature Park Duebener another reserve to.

History and Objectives

The nature reserve was declared Flaming on 19 December 2005 to the Nature Park. The preparation was founded in 2003, the " Nature Park Flaming eV" to its makers, among others, the districts Wittenberg and Anhalt-Zerbst count. Opened in 2006, the nature center in Jeber mountain peace.

As development goals of the natural park called efforts to retain and use of the natural and cultural landscape Flaming, the development of areas for conservation compatible recreation and tourism, sustainable management in agriculture and forestry, as well as providing a basis for a resource efficient regional development. The Flaming will assume particular importance for nature conservation, landscape management, medium-sized businesses and crafts, environmental education and tourism.

The Flaming - ridge and cultural space

The Flaming is a glacially formed ridge and at the same time a historically evolved cultural landscape in the south eastern Brandenburg and Saxony -Anhalt. It extends east of Magdeburg more than 100 kilometers to the Dahme. The flaming is as ridge part of the Southern land back which was formed especially in the Saale ice age. The city is regarded as Jiiterbog border between the High and the Low in the west Flaming Flaming in the east.

For centuries, noted the Flaming the border wall between Slavs and Germans and then dar. between the Electorate of Saxony and Brandenburg, the first German castle Warde, monasteries and stone churches emerged in the area of the nature park at the end of the 10th century. The name leads the Flaming according to the Flemings, by Albert the Bear and the subsequent development of the land populated the ridge after the establishment of the Mark Brandenburg in 1157 in large numbers.

In addition to also nationally known cultural sites in Wittenberg, Coswig and Rosslau are the castle in Lindau, the Barenthoren Castle and the Castle of Kropstädt importance.

Note value of the wealth of castles, palaces and mansions in the nature park Flaming. More than 50 pieces of stone - has become legacy there. One concern of the nature park is therefore the better tourist development of the houses. Project information is available at www.historische - Kulturlandschaft.de. As in the entire Flaming there are many preserved medieval stone churches in the Natural Park flaming.

• To geography, climate, history and culture space see main article Flaming
• The stone churches see list of stone churches in the flaming

Natural space

Typical of the landscape in the nature park Flaming is the exchange of forests, meadows and fields between near-natural streams in a gently rolling landscape that reaches its peak in the nature park with the 185 -meter high mountain, close to the Michel Straacher district Grabo. The highest elevation of the entire Flämings forms of Hagelberg with 201 meters in neighboring Brandenburg Park.

Rivers and Lakes

The three major rivers in the natural park Flaming flow directly to the Elbe:

• Tusker
• Rossel
• Hitchhiker Nuthe with three source arms

In addition, there are many natural streams as Olbitz, Ziekoer Bach, Bach Grieboer or Rischebach and drainage ditches dug by men as the Fundergraben. Rivers and streams spurred numerous mills which today are partially listed and installed as the still operational Bon'sche Nuthe- mill in Zerbst district Bone the mill story in more detail. The hammer of the 1600 scale copper hammer Thießen at the Rossel provides insight into the historical copper processing.

Larger lakes does not have the natural park. With 57 acres of the 1583 artificially dammed Deetzer pond at the northern Nuthe forms the largest body of water. With its beach, and boat hire the pond is a popular tourist destination and also forms a popular fishing area, which still provides carp ( " fishing expedition " in the fall, where the water of the pond is drained ).

Flora and trails

The nature park has a diverse flora. Width mixed forests of pine (Pinus ), oak (Quercus ), beech (Fagus ) and alder ( Alnus ) dominate the landscape. Are the most beautiful beech chestnut oak forests of the High Flämings Between the deserted village Schleesen and Golmenglin. Also at Schleesen there are stocks of the old folk medicinal plant periwinkle ( Vinca minor ) to go back to the old village cemetery. On the meadows and herb layers, among others, arnica (Arnica montana), woodruff ( Galium odoratum ), Windflower find (Anemone nemorosa), marsh gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe ) and orchids.

Known about the country's borders is the Bärenthorener pine economy Polenzko that the Chamberlain and Forstmann founded by Frederick Kalitsch 1884. The new forest management replaced the previous clearcutting economy. Kalitsch went with this development as one of the founders of the permanent forest in the forest science a. The Bärenthorener pine economy is today, with an area of 193 hectares of forest a cultural monument and has a forestry science oriented trail.

The nature trail " Flaming Forest " between Jeber Mountain Peace and Stackelitz, the forest trail " Spitzberg " at Streetz and the forest trail " Bismarck Stieg " between Coswig and Möllensdorf turn on a 1907 created walking distance to the Bismarck tower on the 142 meter high Hubertus Berg to a wider audience.

Fauna

The nature park is rich in red ( Cervus elaphus ), fallow (Dama dama) and wild boar (Sus scrofa). Among the most notable species in Nature Park include the Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra) and the bird of the year 1981, the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius ). Among the insects, the relatively rich deposits of loud Red List of Germany at high risk (category 2) Red Wood Ant (Formica rufa) are remarkable. In particular, the nature trail " Flaming Forest " has from the nests of specially protected by the Federal Species Protection Ordinance ant. In the natural park of flow there is occurrence of brown trout (Salmo trutta fario ) and amphibians

Landscape and nature conservation areas

The list is still incomplete and the assignment is not finally resolved.

Landscape protection areas:

• Nedlitzer lowland (160 hectares)
• Bürgerholz at Rosian (104 hectares)
• Jütrichauer Busch ( 25 hectares )
• Core zone of the LSG " Zerbst farmland " (1300 hectares)

• Magdeburgerforth (127 hectares)
• Pfaff Heide - Wörpener Bach ( 484 hectares)
• Schleesen (50 hectares)
• Space fraction (22 hectares)
• Rahmbruch (45 hectares)

Nature Reserves

• Deetzer pond
• Large fracture in Dobritz / Grimme / Polenzko
• Rath fraction (12 hectares) at Kleinleitzkau
• NSG in Rosseltal at Mühlstedt (name unclear)

Publications of the park administration

One of the first publications of the park administration include using the 52- page introduction booklet a previously 16 -part series Flyers cycling and walking tours as well as the 3- part series cycling and hiking tours / church tours. The tours are based to a large extent in and around Jeber mountain peace, such as the Tour No. 3 to the fairytale in Golmenglin the Tour No. 11 to the church ruin in the deserted village Schleesen or the tour 10 by 30 km long bike ride Jeber mountain peace - Weiden - Grochewitz - Zieko - Duben - Buko - Bräsen - Hundeluft - Jeber mountain peace.