%0 Journal article
%A Eggelsmann, Rudolf
%A Blankenburg, Joachim
%T 131 Jahre Moor- und Bodenforschung in Bremen
%R 10.23689/fidgeo-3021
%J TELMA - Berichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Moor- und Torfkunde
%V 39

%X Abstract : The peatland research station (MVSt), which evolved in 1877, had to deal with some difficulties as there existed neither technical literature nor agricultural experimental stations. The start was made by visiting settlers of the peatlands in nearby Teufelsmoor and in the Bourtanger Moor at the border between the Netherlands and Germany and asking them questions. Many chemical and physical analyses of peat soils and peat were also made and above all the staff of the MVSt had their own field tests running in different peatlands to get as much information as possible. Only 15-20 years later, the German raised bog cultivation („Deutsche Hochmoorkultur“) was able to replace what was harmful to the environment (peat smoke) and risky (night frost) burnt-over peatland culture. After drainage, liming and soil improvement with fertilizer the fields could be used successfully as arable land and/or grassland. Until the First World War countless bog settlements, which were efficient without manure, were established in Germany and later also abroad. After 1940 the use of deep ploughs to cultivate shallow raised bogs began with the MVSt. After the Second World War many thousands of hectare were cultivated by the deep plough up to 2.4m in the Emsland. There farmers from the East found a new home on the sand-mixed cultivations. The MVSt did substantial analyses about the micro climate and the hydrology of the peatlands and from 1975 onwards about the protection of mires as well. Since 1980 the problems of environmental protection were dealt with, for example the dynamics of heavy metals and erosion by wind. After the German Government released the concept for soil protection (1985) 70 agriculturally used fields were made permanent soil monitoring sites. The development and work of the former MVSt during the 131 years are summarized on annex 1 to 6.
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