Small places

The Little Örtze springs east of Munster, within the Munster-Nord military training area. After one kilometer, it crosses the Munster – Uelzen railway line and then flows southward through the Munster district of Oerrel. Just behind the town, it crosses the federal road 71. Continuing southward, through its original and now renatured valley, it flows until Trauen and further on to Kreutzen. Here it flows into the Örtze. The upper reaches of the Little Örtze served as a drainage ditch for the former high moor, which has since been reforested, before its renaturation. The narrow valley was declared a nature reserve in 1993 over its entire length, with the exception of the first kilometer, covering a total area of 330 hectares.
Among the rare plants that are particularly protected under the German Federal Species Protection Ordinance, the marsh heartleaf and the knotweed spawnweed grow here.

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