Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve Schorfheide -Chorin was established as part of the National Park program of the GDR in 1990 in the state of Brandenburg. It is 1291 km ² and is located in the districts of Uckermark, Barnim, Mark- Or and Upper Havel. The Biosphere Reserve is located as a special nature reserve, the total reserve Plagefenn. Since 2011 is a part of the reserve, the Grumsiner forest in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Schorfheide as the core area is a contiguous forest area of approximately 200 km ²; this is traversed only by an old cobblestone road.

History

The Cistercian Monastery Chorin managed mainly the lands of the region from the early Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War. On the western edge of the Schorfheide, north of the village of Great Beautiful Beck, was until 1945 one of the residences of Hermann Goering ( Carin Hall ). The wooded landscape served as a hunting ground, which was available only to the powerful of the state. This story is thanks to them that the vegetation was spared in many parts, and especially in its core area for decades of profound human disorders.

UNESCO World Heritage

2011 Beech were included in the Carpathians and ancient beech forests in Germany on the World Heritage List. Among other the Buchenwald case has been explained in Grumsiner forest in the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide -Chorin part of World Natural Heritage. Here are pronounced millet grass - beech forests, which are considered to be remnants of the large book collections that there have been earlier in Central Europe and it is a refuge of rare species such as the spotted eagle or the black stork.

Demarcation

For area of the biosphere reserve in detail include the Chorin terminal moraine with the Parsteiner lake and the Grumsiner Forest, the Lower Oder and the Neuenhagener Or island Britz plate Werbellin -Joachim Thaler moraine, the Schorfheide, the Poratzer basic and terminal moraine, the basic and terminal moraine to Melzow and Greiffenberg, the farmland Gerswalde - Stegelitz and the Templin Lake District

Conservation

The biosphere reserve Schorfheide -Chorin is an abundance of water cultural landscape. Just through the biosphere reserve is the watershed between the North and Baltic Seas. Large rivers are missing in the area; smaller streams are rare. Common types of waters are against standing water in the form of lakes (Werbellinsee ), pools, ponds, kettle holes, ponds and swampy areas. Through the construction of massive dams in the forest north of Liepe extensive wetland areas ( marshes, lakes ) to be drained and flooded cultivated meadows. Reasons and approvals of this secret construction are unknown.

Largest lake in the reserve is 1,003 hectares of Parsteiner lake, a Zungenbeckensee north of Chorin Endmoränenbogens.

Flora

Great importance for nature conservation have the old forest areas, which are often made in the form of oak Hutewäldern. Some areas consist of several hundreds of oak trees that are all older than 250 years. Good 10 percent of the reserve area are occupied by numerous small-scale peat bogs, which are largely dehydrated and should be rehabilitated. The vast majority have pine forests. Chance you can still find carnivorous sundew species.

The Biosphere Reserve belonging Grumsiner forest was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage on June 25, 2011.

Fauna

In the Biosphere Reserve next to the typical big game ( deer, wild boar, deer ) and the beavers and otters still occur frequently. Furthermore, there are still stocks of the highly endangered European pond turtle and the fire-bellied toad. Also, lake, fish and spotted eagle nest in the woods. Particular attention in the context of visitor guidance applies to the crane as a resting and breeding bird.

Moore

Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide -Chorin also includes the Small - and Large fishing break, both boiler Moore. The Big Fisherman fraction is approximately 250 m long, at its widest point, up to 60 m wide in its widest extent. It has a total area of approximately 1.5 ha