High Fläming Nature Park

High Fläming Nature Park is an 827 km2 nature park in Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the German state Brandenburg. It is the third largest of 11 nature parks in the state of Brandenburg. In 1997, it was declared a nature park by the State Minister for the Environment.There is a visitor center in Rabenstein/Fläming offering information, an interesting exhibition, a bike rental and a shop with regional products.GeographyThe park is located about 80 km southwest of Berlin and Potsdam and covers the higher parts of the Fläming hill chain. Its location is indicated by a red dot on the Brandenburg map on this page. The highest elevation is the Hagelberg (200,24 m). It borders in the southwest on the Fläming Nature Park in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.About 27.000 people are living in the area. Belzig is the central town in the park. Other towns in the park include Wiesenburg/Mark, Görzke, Niemegk and Brück. The population density is 30 inhabitants per km2.About half of the area is forests, the other half is agricultural land. There are few lakes, but some clear creeks and small rivers that provide a habitat for several protected species.The nature park has very good traffic infrastructure: By car it can be reached using highway A 2 (Berlin-Hannover) (interchanges Ziesar (76), Wollin (77), Brandenburg (78)) or highway A 9 (Berlin - Leipzig) (interchanges Brück, Niemegk und Klein Marzehns). There is also a good railroad connection from Berlin, Potsdam and Dessau.