Krausnick hills

The Krausnicker mountains are a small high area in southern Brandenburg.

Name and geographic location

The Krausnicker mountains are named after the southern village Kraus Nick. The highest point is 144 meters of Wehlaberg. The Krausnicker mountains form the border between the Spree forest in the southeast and the Dahmeland in the northwest. Both the mountain itself and the immediately adjacent lakes ( Heideseen and Luchsee ) belong to the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve and are a popular destination.

Formation

The landscape of the Krausnicker mountains arose, as all of Brandenburg, in the Ice Age by the formation of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Characteristic of the Krausnicker mountains were the ice advances of the Saale and the Weichselian. The crucial shaping as a high area was held in the Saale ice age according to the previous state of knowledge. The Plateau is interpreted as a moraine. The following Weichseleiszeit the inland to the mountains reached its maximum expansion to the south. The ice flowing around the mountains at first like a river pier and formed to the south of them, coming from the east, a glacier tongue, in the basin today is the Luchsee. The compression area were doing younger moraines, including the Wehlaberg heard placed. Two large glaciers gates were on the mountains. From there, the Krausnicker mountains with the fire a vast Sander was formed west. From about 80 m above sea level. NN to the Krausnicker mountains he thought up to about 60 m above sea level. By NN from the southwest before it borders on the Baruth glacial valley, which further led away meltwater to the west. Today is on the fire which was taken during the GDR era of the Soviet Army in claim, intended as Tropical Islands CargoLifter hangar.

From the glacier to the colorful handle ( see below ) is followed north to the Köthener See an intensely verkesselte landscape, which was created by the Austauen here the numerous spill Toteisblöcke. In the valleys and gullies of this landscape are the heath lakes, a system of lakes with six small forest lakes.

After the melting of the ice, before the regrowth, formed on the Krausnicker mountains some periglacial phenomena, especially dry valleys and ventifacts. Of the originally existing sessile oak mixed forests are now only remains available. Most falter pine forests on sandy surfaces.

Attractions

• Due to the extreme conditions of Brandenburg in altitude (100 m to less than 1 km horizontal distance) are already the mountains in itself worth a visit.
• On the Wehlaberg is since 2003 an observation tower. On a clear day, the view extends to the Berlin TV tower and power plant Jaenschwalde ( both 60 km away).
• About the Krausnicker mountains was until 1815 the border between Saxony and Prussia. At the location of the border posts remembers to this day the place name Bunter stalk, which is now marked by a memorial stone.
• About 2 km west of the Wehlaberges reminiscent of a forest path, a further memorial to the former site of the inn Hungry Wolf, once a station on the main trade route from Berlin to Cottbus.
• Also worth seeing are the oaks preserved as remnants of the former mixed oak forests.
• The Heideseen to the Krausnicker mountains are also a popular destination.