Serrahn Hills

The Serrahner mountains is a wooded mountain ridge in the municipality of Carpin in the district Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. The eponymous village of Serrahn just north of the ridge. To the east is the Schweingartensee, slightly southwest of Great Fürstenseer lake.

The up to 124.2 m above sea level. NHN high hill located in the eastern part of the national park Müritz. The mountains are first mentioned in an official description from 1569. It says that "the Schweingahrdische lake between Zerrahnschen andt Goldbowischen Holtz occupy " is.

For the period 1614 to 1623 sales of construction and timber have been documented from the " Zerrahnschen mountains " to the surrounding villages. Then the forest for the middle of the 16th century must have been so much thinned that the end of the 16th century temporarily grazed large flocks of sheep in the mountains Serrahner.

At the end of the Thirty Years' War, large parts of the area were without form, and the forest spread out again. So it is called from 1688: The " Zerrahnschen mountains stet range of Eychen mast andt thence Holtz, andt can be made therein feist 465 pigs. "

Beginning of the 18th century were founded numerous glassworks and potash distilleries at the instigation of Strelitzer Duke Adolf Friedrich II. Due to the unfavorable position of the traffic Serrahner mountains be spared and the forests remain largely intact.

This has made it popular hunting and forestry botanical experimental plant of the Dukes of Mecklenburg -Strelitz.

In GDR times, the mountains were known as a nature reserve and the seat of the larger state hunting area "Wild field of research Wilhelminenhof ".

The beech forests of the mountains Serrahner since June 2011 along with four other German beech forests UNESCO World Heritage Site. You are the last remaining semi-natural beech forests in Germany.

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53.340113.19754Koordinaten: 53 ° 20 ' N, 13 ° 12'

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