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The Mittelland Canal is Europe's longest artificial waterway in Germany. It connects the Weser, Ems, and Rhine-Palatinate-Danube Canal, traverses flat, predominantly rural landscapes, and serves both commercial and recreational purposes. Ships navigate smoothly through wide canals, with locks, bridges, and green surroundings.

The Düsterdiek Lowlands are a landscape consisting of meadows, fields, and wooded areas. You'll hardly find a house or farm building here. You're alone with yourself and nature. Unfortunately, you'll also hardly find a bench or anything similar for a quiet break.

Due to the drought of the summer of 2018, the small Hopstener Aa, or Mühlen-Aa, dried up for several weeks. In August and September, due to the low water level, no water flowed over the weir on Rheiner Straße in Hopsten. All the water, which was already very small, flowed slightly upstream at the bifurcation into the Giegel Aa. In the dry riverbed, the fish gathered in the remaining pools and were rescued by the local fishing club through relocation.[5]

Wonderful route through the fields. Nature reserve...dreamy

At 325.3 kilometers long, the Mittelland Canal is the longest artificial waterway in Germany. It connects the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the Weser, Elbe, and Elbe-Havel rivers and plays an important role in inland waterway transport in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt. The canal stretches from Hanover to the continent's largest sea and inland ports and is a vital transport route for the economy.

The Niedringhaussee (Sundermannsee) is a 14.9-hectare lake in Lotte. In both summer and winter, the Niedringhaussee (Sundermannsee) is always worth a visit. Whether for a walk, a bike ride, or simply to enjoy nature – the Niedringhaussee (Sundermannsee) offers numerous opportunities for recreational activities.

Preservation and development of undisturbed old reed beds with vegetation-free mudflats and wet bushes along still and flowing waters, wetlands and moors, the development of successional stages in the peripheral areas (e.g., wet bushes on vegetation-free or poor soils), but prevention of bush encroachment and forestation, careful reed mowing where necessary while maintaining a high proportion of old reeds, improvement of the water balance to stabilize a high groundwater level in wetlands, improvement of the food supply in the vicinity of the breeding sites (reduced fertilization, no pesticides), and avoidance of disturbances at the breeding sites from April to July

Conservation of wet meadow complexes, particularly with litter meadows or extensively used wet meadows, near-natural moors, silting zones of standing waters with sparse reed beds or sedge marshes, habitats without hazards such as overhead power lines, conservation of temporarily flooded depressions, wet arable areas and permanently water-bearing ditches, grass, reed and herbaceous borders, and conservation of undisturbed or at least low-disturbance breeding sites during the breeding season from 15 February to 15 August