- 2:00 h
- 7.00 km
- 8 m
- 37 m
- 48 m
- 11 m
- Start: Parking lot 11 (Alte Moorhütte), 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge - Mardorf or Großenheidorner Turm
- Destination: Parking lot 11 (Alte Moorhütte), 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge - Mardorf or Großenheidorner Turm
The adventure trail leads over 7 kilometers through the Totes Moor nature reserve. The trail starts either at the parking lot oAlte Moorhütte or at the Großenheidorner Turm. A total of seven experience stations show the typical flora and fauna or the use of the moors and explain how the nature park protects this rare landscape.
Großenheidorner Turm
Coming from the south, the nature trail first leads along an old peat canal to the Großenheidorner Turm. The vantage point not only offers a panoramic view over the eastern shore of Lake Steinhuder Meer, visitors also learn how the lake is slowly silting up - and how nature reacts to it.
At the peat diggings
For centuries, peat was an essential fuel for the local population. At the edge of the adventure trail is an old extraction site that nature has since reclaimed. The information board tells about how hard life as a peat farmer really was.
Lake of Water Lilies
Cross a wooden footbridge to the small Lake of Water Lilies. Hard to believe: where sky-blue moor frogs croak today, 60 years ago there was still a sand hill.
Whoever wants to know how the hill became a lake should take a closer look at the station.
Moorsteg
The adventure trail turns off to a special survival artist: because the sundew does not get enough nutrients from the soil, the carnivorous plant supplements its diet with insects that get stuck on the sticky leaves. But sphagnum moss and Scots pine also feel right at home on the right and left of the moor walkway - although the nature park does not like to see some species here at all. Why is that?
On the other side of the path, the next vantage point awaits: from the tower at the Moorsteg, you can observe how a former peat cutting area is developing into a flourishing heath landscape.
At the Moor Road
With a short stopover, passer-bys can learn something about the history of the moors - from natural paradise to peat supplier and back again. The station also explores the question of why peatlands are so important for climate protection.
Moorhüttensteg
Moor is not just like peatland - but how do lowland peatland, transitional peatland and raised bog differ? And which animals and plants live where? The information boards on the Moorhüttensteg explain it all! There's also plenty to see off the path, after all, the Moorhüttensteg winds right through the green idyll on the north shore of Lake Steinhuder Meer.
Mountains, islands and Water - if you want to see it all at a glance, you have to look past the new Moorhütte. The nimble great crested grebes breed around the observation tower. Legendary: the information board reveals what the formation of the Steinhuder Meer allegedly has to do with a stomping giant and crying dwarves.
Großenheidorner Turm
Coming from the south, the nature trail first leads along an old peat canal to the Großenheidorner Turm. The vantage point not only offers a panoramic view over the eastern shore of Lake Steinhuder Meer, visitors also learn how the lake is slowly silting up - and how nature reacts to it.
At the peat diggings
For centuries, peat was an essential fuel for the local population. At the edge of the adventure trail is an old extraction site that nature has since reclaimed. The information board tells about how hard life as a peat farmer really was.
Lake of Water Lilies
Cross a wooden footbridge to the small Lake of Water Lilies. Hard to believe: where sky-blue moor frogs croak today, 60 years ago there was still a sand hill.
Whoever wants to know how the hill became a lake should take a closer look at the station.
Moorsteg
The adventure trail turns off to a special survival artist: because the sundew does not get enough nutrients from the soil, the carnivorous plant supplements its diet with insects that get stuck on the sticky leaves. But sphagnum moss and Scots pine also feel right at home on the right and left of the moor walkway - although the nature park does not like to see some species here at all. Why is that?
On the other side of the path, the next vantage point awaits: from the tower at the Moorsteg, you can observe how a former peat cutting area is developing into a flourishing heath landscape.
At the Moor Road
With a short stopover, passer-bys can learn something about the history of the moors - from natural paradise to peat supplier and back again. The station also explores the question of why peatlands are so important for climate protection.
Moorhüttensteg
Moor is not just like peatland - but how do lowland peatland, transitional peatland and raised bog differ? And which animals and plants live where? The information boards on the Moorhüttensteg explain it all! There's also plenty to see off the path, after all, the Moorhüttensteg winds right through the green idyll on the north shore of Lake Steinhuder Meer.
Mountains, islands and Water - if you want to see it all at a glance, you have to look past the new Moorhütte. The nimble great crested grebes breed around the observation tower. Legendary: the information board reveals what the formation of the Steinhuder Meer allegedly has to do with a stomping giant and crying dwarves.
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Contact person
Naturpark Steinhuder Meer
Uferweg 118
31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author
The nature park offers guided tours of the moor from May to October. Information and registration at the Steinhude Nature Park Information Center on 05033 939134.
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