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Location: Bösel, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Alwin R 🚲

May 17, 2021

From May 1942, during the Second World War, Vehnemoor GmbH also employed Soviet Russian "civilian workers". The management criticized the Nazi authorities for the fact that this civilian work “in its bad shape and inadequate food” was unsuitable for the heavy piecework. In view of this situation, the peat company commented, "it makes more sense to deploy a smaller number of civil Russians in Germany and then to feed them better". As a result of this objection, the food allocation at the plant was increased in October 1942. [5] After the war, the production of horticultural growing media increasingly took the place of burning peat. In 1991 the rail connection was shut down due to insufficient profitability, the peat products are now transported by truck or ship. In 1990 Vehnemoor GmbH merged with Deilmann and has been run by Klasmann-Deilmann GmbH ever since.

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Alwin R 🚲

May 17, 2021

Natural location

The more than 1600 ha large Vehnemoor is the eastern foothills of the Hunte-Leda Moor lowland. This lowland, which runs in an east-west direction, separates the East Frisian-Oldenburg Geest from the Hümling and Cloppenburger Geest thresholds over a length of about 60 km and a width of up to 25 km. Naturally, the Vehnemoor is surrounded in a semicircle in the south-west, south and east by the Esterweger Geest islands, the Garreler Talsandplatten, the Wardenburg Land and the Oldenburg Geestsspur. In the north, the high Esch hill divides the Edewecht Geest. To the east, the Geestinsel of Jeddeloh I and the Wildenlohsmoor form the border, to the west the Vehnemoor merges into the Lange Moor and the Fintlandsmoor. The Vehne, which flows through the moor from south to north, gives it its name. The area was drained via this small moor river until the middle of the 19th century

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Alwin R 🚲

May 17, 2021

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The large moorland areas of northwest Germany emerged in the warm periods of the Holocene. When the ice masses of the Elster and Saale Ice Ages melted, a ground moraine was formed, the relief of which was leveled and sunk by crawling in the ground. The sediment carried along made of clay, gravel and mainly fine and occasionally medium sand now forms the mineral subsoil of the Vehnemoor. From these sandy substrates, pronounced eroded soils with a water-retaining compaction horizon in the subsoil (podsoles) formed. When the temperature rose about 8000 years ago and a more humid oceanic climate set in, large-scale growth of peat moss began in the podsolized, permanently moist areas of the depression. Their dead vegetation remains formed the organic soils of the natural area "Hunte-Leda-Moorniederung" over the next millennia. Today the Vehnemoor is humid to wet, locally fresh and mostly drained

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Location: Bösel, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Kleinbahn Trail Edewecht loop from Garrel

2. Rest area by the horse pasture – Kleinbahn Trail Edewecht loop from Bad Zwischenahn

3. Zwischenahner Meer – View of Zwischenahner Meer loop from Friesoythe

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