Ein Stück Usedom für zu Hause
Here, everything revolves around impressive boulders, the forest, and its inhabitants.
Directly off the B 111, a tree-lined avenue - featuring trees some of which are 160 years old and cobblestone pavement - leads to the Neu Pudagla Forest Office. The forest farm has exciting discoveries in store for you, including the Forest Cabinet and the Usedom Rock Garden. Wooden seating areas and a covered pavilion invite you to linger. The forest and game shop also offers hot meals and drinks. Our insect hotel and the swallow tree are real eye-catchers.
Located in the historic building complex, the Forest Museum features a fascinating exhibition spread over two floors. It promises surprising perspectives on the forest - a place that seems so familiar. Across approximately 160 square meters, we’ve displayed selected plants and animals from the forest habitat. In the nature quiz, you can try to guess the names of forest plants and animals. Some of them are hidden in the small touch-and-feel box.
Through a multimedia presentation created by the State Forestry Department, we showcase the duties of a forester and the journey from tree to a product. Do you know how much water seeps into the ground beneath a deciduous forest and becomes available as drinking water? Our visitors are fascinated by the centuries-old tree slices.
The exhibition “400 Million Years of Forest” also features fossil records dating from the Devonian Period to the present. The exhibits come from Usedom, Vorpommern, Europe, and, for example, South America (Brazil, Argentina), Africa (Zimbabwe, Congo, Madagascar), and Asia (Indonesia). A selection of local songbird nests and a few birds of prey, viewed up close, is sure to inspire you to embark on your own journeys of discovery.
In the summer, more than a hundred mosquito bats raise their young in so-called nursery roosts on the outer gable of the Forest Museum. You can then watch them take flight at dusk.
The outdoor exhibition located behind the Forest Cabinet offers you a glimpse into the geological past of the Vorpommern landscape. The Usedom Rock Garden takes you on a historical journey through space and time, going back about 13,000 years to the end of the last Ice Age. The glaciers here were up to 1,000 meters thick. As they melted, they left behind silt, boulders, and stones of various sizes.
The oldest rock in the collection is about 2 billion years old, and the heaviest weighs around 11.4 metric tons. Information panels explain where the more than 160 exhibits come from and which mountain ranges they originated in. Some of the source regions are as far as 1,000 km away from the island of Usedom. The 300-meter-long loop trail leads from Bornholm through southern Sweden to Finland, across the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea via Rügen, and back to Usedom.
Due to its complexity and scientifically sound foundation, the Usedom Rock Garden ranks among the most significant glacial till collections in Europe. The Usedom Rock Garden was created in cooperation between the Institute of Geography and Geology at Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald and the Neu Pudagla Forestry Office.
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