The best MTB trails in Neuenburger Urwald

A nice place for a little rest.

Great large platform that offers a nice overview of the moor. With interesting information boards.

Beautiful landscape, just let your soul unwind.

The lookout is visibly showing its age and needs maintenance but is still stable and the all-round view is very good

Very nice short section

Location The former nature reserve "Lengener Meer" and the former nature reserve "Stapeler Moor" (Leer district) form a connected complex with the former nature reserve "Spolsener Moor" (Friesland district), which has been completely absorbed into the nature reserve "Stapeler Moor and Surroundings". This is located in northwestern Lower Saxony, about twelve kilometers northwest of the town of Westerstede in the municipality of Uplengen. It belongs to the natural unit of the "East Frisian Central Raised Moors" and, together with the now isolated former Herrenmoor nature reserve and the Neudorfer Moor nature reserve, to the northern part of the Lengener Moor sub-unit. The remains of the moor lie in the apex of the "Oldenburg-East Frisian Geest Ridge" on the watershed between the Jade Bay and the Ems. The series of raised bogs that formed here after the last ice age largely follows old meltwater channels.

The Lengener Meer is a raised bog lake in the municipality of Uplengen in the Leer district in East Frisia, Lower Saxony. It is one of the few remaining raised bog lakes in Germany. The almost circular shallow lake, also called the Moorauge or Kolk, is only 0.80 meters deep and covers 22 hectares. It lies in the middle of the former nature reserve (NSG) "Lengener Meer", a remaining raised bog that has more or less degenerated through drainage but is still partially growing. The former nature reserve has an area of 240 hectares and was part of the 1414 hectare FFH area "Lengener Meer, Stapeler Moor, Baasenmeers-Moor". On September 1, 2016, it was incorporated into the newly designated nature reserve "Stapeler Moor and surroundings".

Together with the Eckwarden cross-mark light and lower light, the small lighthouse in WHV marked the points at which a course correction had to be made in order to guide ships through the narrow fairway. This was a gray-black steel lantern that was mounted on a pedestal, which in turn stood on four stilts and a wall base. In the lighthouse directories, this tower appears under the simple name cross-mark light; it apparently did not have a proper name. Solar cells for the now installed incandescent lamp lighting and a wind measuring device were also recently installed on the 12 m high tower. (Source: https://www.leuchttuerme.net/index.php?nav=1000137&lang=1&id=24&action=portrait) The cross-mark light in May 2001 at its old location in Wilhelmshaven. Rights: M. Werning / leuchttuerme.net The cross-mark light in May 2001 at its old location in Wilhelmshaven. This tower survived the closure of most of the cross-mark lights on the Jade in October 1998 (Minsener Oog Buhne A, (Minsener Oog Buhne C, (Hooksielplate, (Schillig)); its fire was not extinguished until July 5, 2005. It was obviously a great surprise for the people of Wilhelmshaven that shortly after the closure, someone interested in the tower came along and took over the structure: Anton Tapken, captain of the excursion ship Etta von Dangast, which was moored in Dangast, took over the lighthouse for the symbolic price of one euro and had it dismantled on November 8, 2005 and rebuilt as a maritime monument in the harbor there.