Brandenburg Germany State Flag Tag

The mission of this travel bug is to go to Potsdam, the Capitol of the German State of Brandenburg.  Along the way it is hoped that cachers will learn something about the State of Brandenburg.

Brandenburg Germany

 The current territory of Brandenburg state occupies what were the east-central and eastern portions of former East Germany, extending east-west from the Oder and Neisse rivers to the Elbe region and north-south from the Mecklenburg lake district to lower Lusatia (Lausitz). Brandenburg is bounded by the German state of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania to the north, byPoland to the east, and by the states of Saxony to the south, Saxony-Anhalt to the west, and Lower Saxony to the northwest. Embedded within the middle of Brandenburg is the national capital, Berlin, a state in its own right. Brandenburg’s capital is Potsdam.

The landscape of present-day Brandenburg is very much the product of glaciation.  Most of the state consists of a sandy plain that is interspersed with numerous fertile areas and stretches of pine and fir forests. Because of its sandy soils, it was formerly popularly known as the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”  It is, however, traversed by tributaries of the Elbeand Oder rivers and boasts more than 3,000 lakes. About half of the state’s area is used for agriculture, and roughly another one-third of the region is covered by forests. The Lower Oder Valley National Park, established in 1995 in the northeastern most part of Brandenburg, is part of a joint Polish-German effort to help preserve the region’s distinctive flora and fauna. Ironically, the ecology of the region benefited from decades of the relative economic neglect of the area. The state lies wholly within the North European Plain and has a moderate climate, determined both by maritime influences, which predominate in areas to the west, and by continental influences, which affect the east. 

This TB has been missing for over a year so I am giving it a new life.  It has been replaced with a wooden tag with the same tracking number and a photo of the original TB to enable it to travel again.