Experience the Landscape
Framing a landscapeFive landscape towers open up windows on Ammerland’s park landscape
To mark the first Lower Saxony state garden show in Bad Zwischenahn in 2002, all the local districts of Ammerland erected lookout towers as windows on characteristic parts of Ammerland’s park landscape. Each of the five towers is devoted to a subject typical for the landscape in question, which is also reflected in five different Ammerland cycling tours. All the towers are furnished with seats and tables, so they are ideal as resting places or to shelter from the rain.
The locations of the landscape windows are:
Apen
Subject: water Tange in the district of Apen:
The landscape window erected in a still-working water control system in Tange offers a magnificent view over the fen landscape of Barßeler Tief – a major breeding ground for grassland birds.
Edewecht
Subject: windmillsOsterscheps in the district of Edewecht:
The Osterscheps landscape window made of corten steel lies between a windmill dating from 1880 and a modern wind farm – and as such directly in a confrontation between the traditional and the modern.
Rastede
Subject: sandy uplandHankhausen in the district of Rastede:
The Hankhausen landscape window shows the dynamic forces at work in Ammerland on the edge of the Oldenburg-East Friesian sandy upland, a morphological structure from the Ice Age that is up to 20 metres high.
Westerstede
Subject: rhododendrons Giesselhorst in the town of Westerstede:
The landscape window located in a managed forest in Giesselhorst shows you the magnificence of older rhododendrons growing up to 10 metres high. The mirror structure of the roof is a particular eye-catcher.
Wiefelstede
Subject: embankment hedgesWemkendorf in the district of Wiefelstede:
The landscape window in Wemkendorf stands in the middle of a dense network of embankment hedges that formerly served as boundary markers and are a very special feature of the Ammerland park landscape.
