Hamberger Moor Nature Reserve

In the past, peat was extracted here. Today the moor is being renatured and designated as a nature reserve. You wander around on beautiful paths between birches and pines, ponds and peat, cotton grass and heather. Be on the lookout for insects, amphibians, and carnivorous plants.

The Hamberger Moor is a former raised bog that is counted as the Teufelsmoor. It lies between the Beek in the east and the towns of Ströhe and Spreddig in the west. After centuries of peat mining - here exclusively as a peasant cut using the sod cutting process - the current 300-hectare nature reserve Hamberger Moor has been rewetted over a large area as planned.

In addition to bog birch forest and various stages of degeneration and regeneration of the raised bog, the partially or year-round flooded areas are particularly important for endangered plant and moss species as well as bird, dragonfly, butterfly and amphibian species.

Easily accessible by bike, you can find bog lakes, Kleinseggenriede, peat moss, bog bell heather, bog cottongrass and cranberries, and forest peat moss in the birch forests. In a few decades, peat coverings with a thickness of 50-60 cm have partially formed again.

Extract from teufelsmoor.eu

Intact moor landscape, accessible on narrow paths.