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Westhavelland Nature Park Water, broad lowlands, forest-rich plateaus, and small march localities with half-timbered houses and brick buildings give the landscape between Brandenburg on the Havel river, Friesack, and Neustadt/Dosse an unmistakable face. The sparsely populated Westhavelland with its scenic diversity has a wealth of nature and culture to offer visitors. The nature park, located around 70 kilometers west of Berlin, that opened in 1998 belongs to the richest waterbody regions in Germany and is therefore especially suitable for ecologically-friendly water-sport tourism. The Havel, which begins in Mecklenburg, flows into the Elbe after its circa 341-kilometer-long course by Havelberg. The Havel is the lifeline of the Westhavelland. The largest contiguous wetland area in the interior of Western Europe is located here. Within the framework of the Ramsar Convention 58 square kilometers of the park in Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt are placed under international protection. In September 2005 one of the largest European river rena- turation projects began under the auspices of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). It is projected to last 16 years. The planned measures should preserve the unique Havel landscape, enliven the river, and make it more attractive for visitors and guests of the nature park. Formed by Water Intercontinental Flights In the nature park many threatened and highly endangered animals and plant species find their habitat. The region plays an important role in inter-regional migration of waders and water birds. In the spring and autumn thousands of Nordic geese and swans, cranes, ducks, and scolopacidae find the necessary water and nourishing resting places on their long migration routes. The magnificent ruff – the heraldic bird of the nature park – can be observed here at its mating games during the spring. Very rare meadow breeders – Black-tailed godwit, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Common Snipe, and Corn Crake – are breeding birds in the nature park. Beavers and European otters are just as at home here as a notable number of amphibians, fish, insects, and plants. Bogs, Ländchen, and Land Seizure The 1315-square-kilometer nature park is above all shaped by the Weichselian glaciation, which ended over 10,000 years ago. Powerful glaciers and meltwaters formed the landscape. In the low-lying areas large moors and wetland areas arose: the Haveland Luch (bog), the Rhinluch (Rhin bog), and the Dossebruch. A unique feature of the Westhavelland are the ground moraine plateaus and terminal moraine »islands« – the so called Ländchen. Like large islands they rise out of the lowlands and lent themselves therefore to settlement through villages and cities. In the 7th century the Slavic Hevellians settled here. They were so called after the Havel. With the German conquest by Albert the Bear in 1157 settlers came, including those, among others, from the Lower Rhin region. Since the 18th century the boggy land has been largely drained by dikes, pumping stations, dams, ditches, and the relocation of the mouth of the Havel. The reclamation of the Rhin and Dosse areas led Frederick the Great, upon an inspec- tion trip in the Rhinluch, to remark, »… that is contrary to my Ministry of Environment, Health and Consumer Protection of the Federal State of Brandenburg Editors: Environmental Agency of Brandenburg, Office of Press and Public Relations 14476 Potsdam, OT Groß Glienicke, Seeburger Chaussee 2, Tel. (03 32 01) 4 22 - 0 and Westhavelland Nature Park Photographs: Bich, Bock, Haase, Hübner, Krüger, Rasmus, Ryslavy Map: Pro Line Concept, Berlin Design/Production: Power DesignThing GmbH Printing: Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Brandenburg As of: September 2013 Kiebitz Marsh marigold expectations! That’s wonderful! I must say to you, all of you who have worked on it.« Increasing land reclamation and a partially industrialized agriculture led to a decrease in species and landscape diver- sity. Today the Westhavelland Nature Park should serve the site for specific and sustainable uses of both man and nature. Flying Machines, Microscopes, Retorts »The surrounds of Berlin are poor in good training grounds for gliding. The ideal of the latter is formed in a hill with drops on all sides of at least 20 meters. Between Rathenow and Neustadt and der Dosse there is a stretch of land, the so called Ländchen Rhinow, that contains a large selection of such hills.« Otto Lilienthal – the »first pilot« – was often in Westhavelland between 1893 and 1896 because he couldn’t find in Berlin any suitable training grounds for his ever better constructed flying machines. With his machines dismantled he traveled by train and horse-drawn carriage to the Rhinower Mountains. From Gollenberg near Stölln Lilienthal could al- ready fly up to 250 meters. On August 9, 1896 he was caught by a gust of wind. Falling from 15 meters he broke his cervical vertebra and died the next day in Berlin. The pastor Johann Heinrich August Duncker, born in 1767, is responsible for the renown of his home town Rathenow as the »City of Optics.« The multiple-lens grinding machine that he developed allowed for the rationalization of eyeglass and microscope production and was ground-breaking for the further development of optics. In 1801 he founded the Optische Industrie-Anstalt (Optical Industry Institute). The city of Premnitz was until 1914 still a small fishing village. After 1917 it developed itself into an industrial center. Since the 1950s Premnitz was the most sig- nificant site for synthetic fiber industry in the GDR and for the entire East European economic sphere. The industrial center RathenowPremnitz is at this time becoming more active. Landesamt für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz Naturpark Westhavelland Nationale Naturlandschaften

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  • WesthavellandNature Park

    Water, broad lowlands, forest-rich plateaus, and small march

    localities with half-timbered houses and brick buildings give

    the landscape between Brandenburg on the Havel river,

    Friesack, and Neustadt/Dosse an unmistakable face. The

    sparsely populated Westhavelland with its scenic diversity has

    a wealth of nature and culture to offer visitors. The nature

    park, located around 70 kilometers west of Berlin, that opened

    in 1998 belongs to the richest waterbody regions in Germany

    and is therefore especially suitable for ecologically-friendly

    water-sport tourism. The Havel, which begins in Mecklenburg,

    flows into the Elbe after its circa 341-kilometer-long course

    by Havelberg. The Havel is the lifeline of the Westhavelland.

    The largest contiguous wetland area in the interior of Western

    Europe is located here. Within the framework of the Ramsar

    Convention 58 square kilometers of the park in Brandenburg

    and Sachsen-Anhalt are placed under international protection.

    In September 2005 one of the largest European river rena-

    turation projects began under the auspices of the Nature and

    Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). It is projected to last

    16 years. The planned measures should preserve the unique

    Havel landscape, enliven the river, and make it more attractive

    for visitors and guests of the nature park.

    Formed by Water

    Intercontinental Flights

    In the nature park many threatened and highly endangered

    animals and plant species find their habitat. The region plays

    an important role in inter-regional migration of waders and

    water birds. In the spring and autumn thousands of Nordic

    geese and swans, cranes, ducks, and scolopacidae find the

    necessary water and nourishing resting places on their long

    migration routes. The magnificent ruff – the heraldic bird of

    the nature park – can be observed here at its mating games

    during the spring. Very rare meadow breeders – Black-tailed

    godwit, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Common Snipe,

    and Corn Crake – are breeding birds in the nature park.

    Beavers and European otters are just as at home here as a

    notable number of amphibians, fish, insects, and plants.

    Bogs, Ländchen, and Land Seizure

    The 1315-square-kilometer nature park is above all shaped

    by the Weichselian glaciation, which ended over 10,000 years

    ago. Powerful glaciers and meltwaters formed the landscape.

    In the low-lying areas large moors and wetland areas arose:

    the Haveland Luch (bog), the Rhinluch (Rhin bog), and the

    Dossebruch. A unique feature of the Westhavelland are the

    ground moraine plateaus and terminal moraine »islands« –

    the so called Ländchen. Like large islands they rise out of the

    lowlands and lent themselves therefore to settlement through

    villages and cities. In the 7th century the Slavic Hevellians

    settled here. They were so called after the Havel. With the

    German conquest by Albert the Bear in 1157 settlers came,

    including those, among others, from the Lower Rhin region.

    Since the 18th century the boggy land has been largely

    drained by dikes, pumping stations, dams, ditches, and the

    relocation of the mouth of the Havel. The reclamation of the

    Rhin and Dosse areas led Frederick the Great, upon an inspec-

    tion trip in the Rhinluch, to remark, »… that is contrary to my Ministry of Environment, Health and Consumer Protection of the Federal State ofBrandenburgEditors: Environmental Agency of Brandenburg, Office of Press and Public Relations14476 Potsdam, OT Groß Glienicke, Seeburger Chaussee 2, Tel. (03 32 01) 4 22 - 0and Westhavelland Nature ParkPhotographs: Bich, Bock, Haase, Hübner, Krüger, Rasmus, RyslavyMap: Pro Line Concept, BerlinDesign/Production: Power DesignThing GmbHPrinting: Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation BrandenburgAs of: September 2013

    Kiebitz

    Marsh marigold

    expectations! That’s wonderful! I must say to you, all of you

    who have worked on it.«

    Increasing land reclamation and a partially industrialized

    agriculture led to a decrease in species and landscape diver-

    sity. Today the Westhavelland Nature Park should serve the

    site for specific and sustainable uses of both man and nature.

    Flying Machines, Microscopes, Retorts

    »The surrounds of Berlin are poor in good training grounds

    for gliding. The ideal of the latter is formed in a hill with

    drops on all sides of at least 20 meters. Between Rathenow

    and Neustadt and der Dosse there is a stretch of land, the

    so called Ländchen Rhinow, that contains a large selection of

    such hills.« Otto Lilienthal – the »first pilot« – was often in

    Westhavelland between 1893 and 1896 because he couldn’t

    find in Berlin any suitable training grounds for his ever better

    constructed flying machines. With his machines dismantled he

    traveled by train and horse-drawn carriage to the Rhinower

    Mountains. From Gollenberg near Stölln Lilienthal could al-

    ready fly up to 250 meters. On August 9, 1896 he was caught

    by a gust of wind. Falling from 15 meters he broke his cervical

    vertebra and died the next day in Berlin. The pastor Johann

    Heinrich August Duncker, born in 1767, is responsible for the

    renown of his home town Rathenow as the »City of Optics.«

    The multiple-lens grinding machine that he developed allowed

    for the rationalization of eyeglass and microscope production

    and was ground-breaking for the further development of optics.

    In 1801 he founded the Optische Industrie-Anstalt (Optical

    Industry Institute). The city of Premnitz was until 1914 still

    a small fishing village. After 1917 it developed itself into an

    industrial center. Since the 1950s Premnitz was the most sig-

    nificant site for synthetic fiber industry in the GDR and for the

    entire East European economic sphere. The industrial center

    RathenowPremnitz is at this time becoming more active.

    Landesamt fürUmwelt,Gesundheit undVerbraucherschutz

    NaturparkWesthavelland

    NationaleNaturlandschaften

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    Discover the Westhavelland

    The Westhavelland is rich in historic houses, churches, and

    technical monuments. The city of Brandenburg, which borders

    the nature park to the south and whose cathedral was begun

    in 1165, is regarded as the cradle of the march Brandenburg.

    Those sites that are worth seeing include the castles in Kleßen

    and Nennhausen with their gorgeous landscape gardens,

    the post wind mills in Bamme, Prietzen, and Ketzür as well

    as Germany’s last two functioning needle dams in Grütz and

    Garz. In the newly configured toy museum in Kleßen not only

    the little ones get their money’s worth. In Liepe the estate

    with its farm store, gardens, and Slavic fortress invites guests

    for a visit. Equally a detour to the Brandenburg Pferdezucht-

    Hochburg Neustadt an der Dosse (horse-breeding stronghold

    in Neustadt an der Dosse) is fully worthwhile. The mummified

    knight Kahlbutz can be »viewed« in the early gothic church in

    Kampehl.

    Those with literaral interests can follow the traces of Theodor

    Fontane. The march poet took inspiration from the Westha-

    velland that he worked into his famous novel »Effi Briest«

    among others. Until the middle of the 18th century all ship

    transport between Magdeburg and the march occurred over

    the Stremme, a former main arm of the Elbe. Thereby all

    ships had to pass by the Castle Mitow, from which the traffic

    was controlled. Today the visitors’ center of the nature park

    Mute swans are the true wild swans of temperate Central Europe. In autumn they are joined by whoopers and Bewick’s swans. They come from their breeding grounds in northern Scandinavia and west Siberia, having covered thousands of miles to reach their wintering locations.

    In 1978 the Buckow nature conservation station (today the State Ornithological Station of Buckow) was founded. The personnel work on protecting the worldwide endangered Great Bustard, whose roosters can weight up to 17 kilograms. The emphasis of their research is on questions of conservation on cultivated land. From the observation towers near Buckow and Garlitz one can see the courting and breed grounds of the Great Bustard.

    Westhavelland Nature Park AdministrationPareyer Dorfstraße 5, 14715 HavelaueTel: (03 38 72) 74 30, Fax: 7 43 12np-westhavelland@lua.brandenburg.dewww.grossschutzgebiete.brandenburg.de

    Westhavelland Nature WatchPareyer Dorfstraße 5,

    14715 HavelaueTel: (03 38 72) 7 00 25, Fax: 7 00 [email protected]

    Nature Watch Base South in MilowTel: (0 33 86) 20 04 [email protected]

    Westhavelland Nature Park Visitors’ Center, NABU

    Westhavelland Regional OfficeStremmstraße 10, 14715 Milower LandTel: (0 33 86) 21 12 27, Fax: 21 13 [email protected]@Rathenow.de

    State Ornithological Station of BuckowDorfstraße 3414715 Nennhausen OT BuckowTel: (03 38 78) 6 02 57, Fax: 6 06 [email protected]

    Westhavelland Tourism OfficeFreier Hof 5, 14712 RathenowTel: (0 33 85) 51 49 91/92fvv-westhavelland@rathenow.dewww.fremdenverkehrsverein-westhavelland.de

    Brandenburg InformationNeustädtischer Markt 314776 Brandenburg/Havel Tel: (0 33 81) 20 87 [email protected]

    Ruppiner Land Tourism OfficeFischbänkenstraße 8, 16816 NeuruppinTel: (0 33 91) 65 96 30 Fax: 35 79 [email protected]

    Tourism Office Kyritz, Wuster-hausen, Neustadt DosseMaxim-Gorki-Straße 32, 16866 KyritzTel: (03 39 71) 5 23 [email protected]

    Museum KolonistenhofKleinderschauer Str. 116845 GroßderschauTel: (03 38 75) 9 08 10, Fax: 9 08 [email protected]

    Havelland Tourism Office Schloss Ribbeck Theodor-Fontane-Straße 1014641 Nauen/OT RibbeckTel: (03 32 37) 85 90-30, Fax: 85 [email protected]

    on the site opens its doors by transmitting much noteworthy

    information about the Westhavelland. The staff of the Nature

    Watch are out and about acting as »intermediaries between

    people nature«. They are the first point of contact for matters

    regarding species and biotope conservation, monitoring, natural

    history tours and environmental education in the nature park.

    And they help all those who have an eye and an ear for dis-

    covering the wide expanses and the peace of the river valley

    and lowland landscapes.

    The unusual large church in the small Havel village of Strodehne was built in 1902/03. As of 1998 Strodehne has its fourth stork nest.

    The 50 to 150-centimeter-long branched burr-reed grows in stagnant and flowing waters of cane brakes, on nutrient-rich, muddy soil.

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    Grenze Naturpark Westhavelland

    Naturparkverwaltung

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    NPMärkischeSchweiz

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    BR FlusslandschaftElbe-Brandenburg

    NPWest-havelland

    BRSchorfheide-Chorin

    NLP = NationalparkBR = BiosphärenreservatNP = Naturpark

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    NPHoherFläming

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    BRSpreewald

    NPSchlaubetal

    NPNiederlausitzerLandrücken

    NPNiederlausitzerHeidelandschaft

    NPUckermärkischeSeen

    Naturparkinformation

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    Fishing on the Havel near Brandenburg is first documented in the year 1187, when the margrave Otto II left a part of the Havel to the cathedral chapter for fishing. Around 1900 typical river fish were still caught, including sturgeon, allis shad, and barbus barbus. They have long been absent from the Havel. Major fish of today’s Havel fishermen are eel, pike, and zander.

    NLP= nationalpark(Nationalpark)BR = biospherereserve (Biosphärenreservat)NP = naturepark(Naturpark)

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    Natureparkadministration

    Natureparkinformation

    BordersoftheWesthavellandNaturePark

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