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2 unusual facts about Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park


Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park

The lower Middle Elbe basin with its rich water meadow is also of outstanding important for amphibians such as the European fire-bellied toad, the European tree frog and the moor frog.

On clayey soils there are the remnants of a natural deciduous forest vegetation, especially in the Göhrde.


Drawehn

The Klötzie (also the Elbhöhen or "Elbe Heights") is the northern edge of the ridge, up to 70 metres high, which slopes steeply down to the glacial valley of the River Elbe between Hitzacker and Neu Darchau.


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