Flumm

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The Flumm is an old Geest Bach ( Bach lowland ), which rises on the ridge of Aurich and belongs to the former, few real rivers of East Friesland.

The Flumm empties into the Fehntjer deep, which flows to a large extent by the old bed of the Flumm and was extended as a transport route for Fehnschiffahrt of Moor colonists. Originally Flumm culminated in the bed of today's Great lows at Oldersum in the Ems.

The moist lowland areas on the banks of Flumm been used extensively for a long time as meadow and pasture. In the 1960s, the Flumm has undergone extensive changes by the numerous water loops ( meanders ) have been separated from the watercourse and then backfilled. Only recently, between 1996 and 1999, several sections of the Flumm could be renatured with conservation funds from the federal funded project. Former oxbow lakes were re-opened and connected to the water. It Uferabflachungen, shallow water zones and riparian zones were created.

A total of 360 hectares of lowland Flumm were asked northeast of Westgroßefehn under protection. The valley is predominantly of water-saturated fen soils with more than one meter in thickness covered, which have formed here on sands of glacial origin. Fens are influenced by high- pending, relatively nutrient-rich groundwater, spring or backwater habitats and thus differ fundamentally from the fed solely by rainwater bogs.

The Flumm lowlands is managed by the Nature Conservation Station Flumm / Fehntjer low. The station is based in a listed Gulfhof in Lübbertsfehn.

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