Wandering Dunes Path

A wandering dune in the middle of the forest? How can that be? On the family-friendly Wandering Dunes Path near Stixe, you can get to the bottom of this question. The dune landscape of the Elbtalaue is geologically still very young. The glacial valley of the Elbe was formed by glaciers of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. It left extensive sand and gravel fields in northern Germany. The result was a storm-shaped dune landscape, which today is mostly covered by extensive coniferous forests. In Stixe, the sand reaches up to the crowns of the pine trees. On the trail is also the Laaver Moor, a varied, small-scale cut-over raised bog. Raised bogs are unique landscape features characterized by an almost constant excess of water, which is why they are also called rainwater moors. They consist of shallow depressions blown out by the wind down to a water-impermeable layer. Let yourself be surprised by moors and dunes in the middle of the forest!