Muskau Bend Landscape Park

The Muskau Arch in Brandenburg and Saxony ( Germany ) and in the Lubusz Voivodeship (Poland ) is a moraine of the Elster glaciation. It is part of the Lusatian border Walles. The Muskau Arch was included in the list of 77 excellent national geotopes 2006.

Geographical location

The Muskau Arch extends on both sides of a section of the German -Polish border forming Lusatian Neisse river in the form of a horseshoe of Döbern (Brandenburg) in the north- west over White Water / Upper Lusatia and Bad Muskau (both in Saxony ) in the south to Polish Trzebiel in the Northeast. Its highest point is located west of Döbern High Mountain ( 183.7 m above sea level. HN). Other surveys include the Brandberg ( 175.3 m) and the Drakensberg ( 162.8 m).

History

The glacier, the ice, stauchte before and below it sand and lignite layers on more than 40 km in length to a small-scale folds arc, which is tart as a flat -wave chain of hills and almost unique in the world.

While it was expected for a long time assumed that the Faltenbogen was formed in the Saale ice age, he was according to recent research already in the Elster glaciation. That he is in the range of a Saalian terminal moraine, it is rather random in nature.

Geoparke

On the German side, the entire area of ​​this geological structure - including south adjacent areas - since 2003 a Geopark. This was certified in 2007 as a National Geopark in Germany and - elected in 2011 to a Geopark of the European Geopark Network - together with the Polish sister Geopark.