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.
View from the Großer Fallstein over the Große Bruch looking towards Hedeper | |
| Area | 78.3 km² |
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| Classification | Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany |
| Major unit group | 51 → Northern Harz Foreland |
| Level 4 Region (major unit) | 511 → Großes Bruch |
| County/District | Börde, Wolfenbüttel |
| State(s) | Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
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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