Rostock Switzerland

The Rostock Switzerland is a terminal moraine and part of the nature reserve Kösterbeck. It is located southeast of Rostock in Rostock district.

Geography

For the most part the Rostock Switzerland is in the field of community Roggentin. For the coastal location, the area is very hilly. Hence the name Rostock Switzerland stirred. The Kösterbeck is a small river that runs in a deep incision and allows the height differences appear as particularly pronounced. The catchment area of the Kösterbeck include contiguous marsh forests and species-rich source Moore, Bach reedbeds and wet meadows. The Valley of Kösterbeck is two meters above sea level, the highest point is 66 meters high. She has several times changed their names: From the period before 1900 the name Bäukenbarg (Book Mountain ) is narrated in the German Reich was Kaiserberg since GDR times called friendship level.

Colonization

This area was densely populated already Slavic times ( 800-1000 ). Evidence of a well-preserved Slavic hillfort at Fresendorf ( Schlossberg ) and a neighboring hill grave. Since the late Middle Ages this area is largely free of forest and has been used for centuries as pasture. Due to the continuous grazing the landscape was kept open. It came to the socialization mainly light and heat vulnerable, drought- loving and grazing resistant plant species and an appropriately adapted wildlife. Today, situated on the edge of the area, the sub- districts Roggentiner Kösterbeck ( in the valley of Kösterbeck ), Upper Kösterbeck, Frese village and district Dummerstorfer Beselin.

Others

Previously you could from a watchtower from Rostock and its surroundings, on sunny days even to Warnemünde, watch here. In the Rostock Switzerland there used to be the northern ski lift and the GDR. Remains of the ski lift can still be found between sub Kösterbeck and Beselin today. In the Rostock Switzerland area impact of the rare Troll flowers grow.