Hanoverian Moor Geest

The Hanoverian Moor Geest is a 800 km ², slightly undulating countryside between Hanover and Nienburg in Lower Saxony. It belongs to the North-West German high moorland district, which covers the glacially influenced Geest areas of the Netherlands to the eastern border of Lower Saxony.

Description

The Geest of Hanover Moor Geest consists of a ground moraine with a height of 50 to 85 m above sea level, which is dominated by bogs. The natural boundaries are the north, the all- glacial valley in the east and the Burgdorf- Peine Geest.

The Geest area has with its village settlements has rural character. Exception is the city of Neustadt am Ruebenberge. The area lies approximately 30 km ² Steinhude in a shallow pool. Originally, the inland waters was three times as large, which is recognizable by its swampy border areas to the west and southwest.

Wide landscape parts formerly consisted of raised bogs. They were abgetorft over time often and cultivated for agricultural purposes. Get yourself have significant reduced Moore as the Altwarmbüchener Moor, the Bissendorfer Moor, the Helstorfer Moor, the black moor at Resse, the Dead Moor and the Otter Hagen Moor. Through the peat originated artificial arable soils that have a mucky character. This makes agricultural use restricted. The forests consist mostly of forest farmed pine forests. Deciduous forest is isolated against on the moraines. The lowlands are used as grassland extensive agricultural management. While most bogs are protected today, Peat is mined in Neustadt until about 2019 large-scale industrial peat in the Dead.

Conservation project

Hannover Region operates from 2006 to 2016, the conservation project Hanoverian Moor Geest, should the four Moore of Moor Geest be permanently protected: Bissendorfer Moor, Helstorfer Moor, Otter Hagen Moor and Black Moor at Resse.

Since August 2011, is located in the Resse Moor Information Centre MOORiZ the Hanover region. Covering an area of ​​approximately 350 m² is a permanent exhibition with the main topic Moor - and here in particular to the Hanoverian Moor Geest - presents. In a lecture room can lectures, meetings and lectures, mainly on the subject of bog and nature, but also from other cultural areas, are performed. Interested groups and organizations will have the opportunity to present themselves in MOORiZ.