{"id":6987,"date":"2016-02-18T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:16:47","slug":"german-nationalparks-part-3-muritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-nationalparks-part-3-muritz\/","title":{"rendered":"German Nationalparks \u2013 Part 3: M\u00fcritz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is part 2 of the new series here on the German Blog, the German\u00a0<em>Nationalparks<\/em>, a series on the 16 National Parks of Germany. Last week, I discussed the\u00a0southernmost park\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-nationalparks-part-2-berchtesgaden\/\">Berchtesgaden<\/a>, <\/em>and the\u00a0mysterious\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-nationalparks-part-1-schwarzwald\/\">Schwarzwald<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>before.\u00a0Today, we will go into the north: to Lake M\u00fcritz in the <em>Bundesland\u00a0<\/em><em>Mecklenburg-Vorpommern<\/em>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9d\/Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high.png\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high.png\" aria-label=\"800px Karte Nationalparks Deutschland High\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"714\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9d\/Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high.png\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high.png\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Parks in Germany (Image by Lencer at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mueritz-nationalpark.de\/\">Der Nationalpark\u00a0M\u00fcritz<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The last ice age created hundreds of lakes and moors on the\u00a0<em>Mecklenburgische Seenplatte\u00a0<\/em>(Mecklenburg Lake District). One lake turned out\u00a0the largest by far: Lake\u00a0<em>M\u00fcritz<\/em>. With 117 km2 (approx. 29,000 acres), it is the largest lake of the\u00a0<em>Seenplatte<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, the\u00a0<em>Nationalpark M\u00fcritz\u00a0<\/em>was established as one of the last acts of the\u00a0<em>Deutsche Demokratische Republic\u00a0<\/em><em>(DDR)\u00a0<\/em>(German Democratic Republic (GDR), former East Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the\u00a0<em>Nationalpark Schwarzwald<\/em>, this park is split in two parts because of a city that is located in between. The Eastern part is called\u00a0<em>Teilgebiet Serrahn<\/em>, and the Western part is called\u00a0<em>Teilgebiet\u00a0<\/em><em>M\u00fcritz<\/em>. With 322 km2, it\u00a0is Germany&#8217;s\u00a0largest terrestrial\u00a0<em>Nationalpark.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is special about the\u00a0<em>Nationalpark M\u00fcritz<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mecklenburgische Seenplatte - Urlaub im Land der 1000 Seen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Szoj0_tlDQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also called\u00a0<em>Das Land der Tausend Seen\u00a0<\/em>(The land of the thousand lakes), the <em>Mecklenburgische Seenplatte<\/em>, with at its heart Lake <em>M\u00fcritz<\/em> is mostly special for its endless amount of lakes. The\u00a0<em>Nationalpark<\/em> borders right at Lake\u00a0<em>M\u00fcritz<\/em>. Just the\u00a0<em>Nationalpark\u00a0<\/em>itself contains more than 100 lakes!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mecklenburgische_Seenplatte#\/media\/File:Schiff_Waren.jpg\" aria-label=\"1280px Schiff Waren\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\"  alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"356\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7b\/Schiff_Waren.jpg\/1280px-Schiff_Waren.jpg\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Segeln (sailing) is great in this Northern-German area. There are many traditional old German Hafend\u00f6rfer and -st\u00e4dte (Harbor villagse and cities) with events, like the M\u00fcritz Sail on this picture, a sailing event. (Image by Pesopesado at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also well-known for its moors and forests.\u00a0The area around Lake\u00a0<em>M\u00fcritz\u00a0<\/em>was already used a lot in the <em>DDR<\/em>\u00a0days for agriculture and hunting. Trees were planted for business purposes, and so nature&#8217;s natural way of growing trees and wilderness was interrupted. Nowadays, a &#8220;renaturalization&#8221; should lead to more natural nature again. Quite in contrast with this is another part of the park&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNESCO\u00a0<em>Weltnaturerbe\u00a0<\/em>(World Natural Heritage)<\/h3>\n<div style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buchenurw%C3%A4lder_in_den_Karpaten_und_alte_Buchenw%C3%A4lder_in_Deutschland#\/media\/File:NP_M%C3%BCritz_Teilgebiet_Serrahn-2.JPG\" aria-label=\"1280px NP M%C3%BCritz Teilgebiet Serrahn 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\"  alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"355\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/21\/NP_M%C3%BCritz_Teilgebiet_Serrahn-2.JPG\/1280px-NP_M%C3%BCritz_Teilgebiet_Serrahn-2.JPG\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Serrahner Urwald in the Nationalpark (Image by \u00d6kologix at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A part of the\u00a0<em>Nationalpark M\u00fcritz\u00a0<\/em>is protected under\u00a0<em>UNESCO Weltnaturerbe<\/em>: the\u00a0<em>Serrahner Urbuchenwald<\/em>\u00a0(Serrahn Primeval Beech Forest).\u00a0<em>Buchen<\/em> (Beeches) were once the primary vegetation in Germany, and these centuries-old trees give an impression of what the entire country looked like long ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can visit this\u00a0<em>Urwald\u00a0<\/em>by foot, bike or by taking a bus. This\u00a0must be wonderful to explore!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have you been to the German Seenplatte? Do you know a place similar to it that you have visited? Let me know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"262\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high-1-262x350.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high-1-262x350.png 262w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/800px-Karte_Nationalparks_Deutschland_high-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><p>This is part 2 of the new series here on the German Blog, the German\u00a0Nationalparks, a series on the 16 National Parks of Germany. Last week, I discussed the\u00a0southernmost park\u00a0Berchtesgaden, and the\u00a0mysterious\u00a0Schwarzwald\u00a0before.\u00a0Today, we will go into the north: to Lake M\u00fcritz in the Bundesland\u00a0Mecklenburg-Vorpommern! Der Nationalpark\u00a0M\u00fcritz The last ice age created hundreds of lakes and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-nationalparks-part-3-muritz\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":7440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[419371,2201,419736,2332,425184,159,376027,2612],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-german-national-parks","tag-holiday","tag-nationalpark","tag-nature","tag-nature-preservation","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/9359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}