Fraud

This small pond owes its name to a deceptive sale of peat bogs, which turned out to contain hardly any peat. Often these types of ponds originated as pingo. The formation of pingos
In a warm period between 2 ice ages (Middle Weichselian), pingos arose everywhere in this area. These were tens of meters high spherical mounds with a core of ice. They arose in somewhat lower-lying parts of the landscape (e.g. in the headwaters of the later streams) where groundwater could flow in from the underground. Over the years, this influx of water allowed the pingo to grow into a hill many tens of meters high. After the ice melted, a circular water-filled crater remained, which was often between 5 and 9 m deep in our study area: a pingo ruin. At the end of the Ice Age, it became warmer and, due to stagnation of water, peat started to grow in these pingo ruins. These peat layers, provided they are not excavated for peat extraction, and are a valuable source of information for research into the historical vegetation in the area.

Nice resting point with bench

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