グレープス・ニーンドルフの天然記念物・トップ14

Fritz Reuter Memorial, Release from Fortress Imprisonment

Nice place for a rest with a bench, table and a story.

In addition to a board that provides you with historical facts about the rock's namesake, there is also something for the eye. The heathland here is particularly beautiful to look at - especially when the heather is in bloom.

Shady seating, two wastepaper baskets available

Shady seating, wastepaper baskets available.

It's easy to miss this place because it's a little off the road and there's no paved path to get there. But definitely worth a detour.

smoky waters on the Elbe During floods, dykes and troughs and depressions that accompany watercourses can be subject to an undercurrent, especially in the case of coarse-pored, sandy-gravelly ground. Due to the water pressure of the high river level, the dike is then underflowed by groundwater. It often comes to the surface immediately behind the dyke and forms temporary flat water. The water escapes sometimes "bubbling" or "smoking" because air stored in the ground is pushed up. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as smoky water or crowded water. Where very high amounts of smoke water occur, a smoke dike is sometimes built parallel to the land side of the dike on agricultural areas in order to secure the wider area. In nature reserves, on the other hand, smoke water is a desired effect that is the basis for very valuable biotopes. These offer a certain landscape-ecological partial replacement for the floodplain that was lost due to the covering. On the middle Elbe, where temporary smoky water occurs particularly frequently, these are habitats for amphibians that are rare elsewhere, such as the fire-bellied toad, the moor frog or the tree frog, as well as refuges for Tadpole Shrimp. The rest of the water that presses through a dyke during high water and emerges on the inner embankment is called Drangwasser, Kuverwasser, Köhrwasser, spring water or sweat water. (https://www.biologie-seite.de/Biologie/Qualmwasser)

The function of salt production can be clearly explained at the "push of a button".