Großes Bruch

The Großes Bruch ("Great Marsh") is a 45 kilometres (28 mi) long wetland strip in Germany, stretching from Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt in the east to Hornburg, Lower Saxony in the west.

Großes Bruch
View from the Großer Fallstein over the Große Bruch looking towards Hedeper
Area78.3 km²
ClassificationHandbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany
Major unit group51 →
Northern Harz Foreland
Level 4 Region
(major unit)
511 →
Großes Bruch
County/DistrictBörde, Wolfenbüttel
State(s)Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
CountryGermany

The depression formed from a glacial valley. The lowland meadow landscape with numerous reed- and willow-fringed ditches is one to four kilometres wide and runs along the Großer Graben and Schiffgraben ditches connecting the river valleys of the Bode in the east and Oker in the west.

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