Fläming Heath

Fläming
Fläming
	Periglacial arroyo Steile Kieten near Belzig
Highest point
Peak	Hagelberg
Elevation	659 ft (201 m)
Geography
Country	Germany
States	Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt
Geology
Orogeny	Pleistocene
Rock type	glacial sediment

The Fläming Heath^[1]^[2] is a region and hill chain that reaches over 100 km from the Elbe river to the Dahme River in the German states Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. Its highest elevation is the Hagelberg (201 m). The name Fläming originates from the 12th century, when Flemish colonists came to settle in the region from the overcrowded cities of Flanders.

The Fläming Heath is a rural area, which benefits from its proximity to the Berlin metropolitan area. Tourism became an important economic sector. With its three nature parks (High Fläming Nature Park, Fläming Nature Park, and Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park), the focus is on walking, cycling and recreation in nature. Another tourist attraction is Flaeming-Skate, which is one of the longest inline-skating tracks in Europe (190 km).

The towns Ziesar, Bad Belzig, Niemegk, Treuenbrietzen, Jüterbog, Baruth/Mark, Dahme/Mark, Wittenberg, Loburg, Möckern, and Zerbst, as well as the municipalities Wiesenburg (Mark) and Rabenstein/Fläming, are situated in or at the border of the Fläming Heath.

References

^ Dickinson, Robert E. (1964). Germany: A regional and economic geography (2nd ed.). London: Methuen.
^ Elkins, T. H. (1972). Germany (3rd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0-7010-0087-2.