| has gloss | eng: The Eider-Treene Depression is a landscape in west Schleswig-Holstein in North Germany. It covers an area of about around the rivers Eider, Treene and Sorge. The Eider-Treene Depression is the largest wetland area in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes around one third of the moorland (bog) in the state and is a habitat to the largest inland group of meadow birds. To the north, its border runs roughly between Hollingstedt and Treia, to the east near Rendsburg, to the south the boggy depression reaches to the Hanerau and Haalerau beyond the present-day Kiel Canal. Its western boundary with the Eiderstedt Marsh is rather unclear, because, in this area, marsh, bog and geest are closely interspersed. The region comprises the river valleys and their interfluvial geest ridges (Geestkernen). The landscape was formed during the ice ages, and subsequently altered by man as a result of the various dams and weirs built across the Eider, which was still a tidal river as far as Rendsburg until the 1920s. The region has tried in recent times increasingly to profit from nature tourism, offering walking, riding, cycling and canoe trips. |
