On foot, with the wind in your hair, you’ll follow marked trails through the salt grasslands of the Karrendorf Meadows.
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Meeting point: Groß Karrendorf parking lot, at the information board
Registration: inselkoos@succow-stiftung.de
During this guided tour led by federal volunteers from the Michael Succow Foundation, participants will learn more about the development and significance of this unique coastal floodplain marsh and its biodiversity.
The Karrendorf Meadows are a property of the Michael Succow Foundation covering approximately 350 hectares within the National Natural Heritage Site near Greifswald. This rare salt marsh is shaped by natural coastal and flooding dynamics. It provides a habitat for numerous rare animal and plant species, particularly plants typical of salt marshes. Wading birds and waterfowl breed, rest, and overwinter here. At the same time, the growing salt-willow peat stores carbon.
Fall in the Karrendorf Meadows:
The fall migration is in full swing. Cranes, in particular, define this season. At sunset, thousands of them fly from the surrounding fields to their roosts in the nature reserve. Together with the first whooper swans to arrive, they create a unique soundscape. Gray geese, white-fronted geese, and white-cheeked geese also use the meadows as a resting place on their way south.
The guided tour starts at the parking lot near Groß Karrendorf and ends at the bridge in front of Koos Island. The tour group follows the causeway.
