A BINGO-funded cooperation with all primary schools in the area covered by the Weddel-Lehre Water Association Project period: 06 May – 12 June 2025 Where does our water come from? How is it cleaned and what animals live in our regional waters? These are questions to which the environmental project […]

The Geopark-Carrier Association Braunschweiger Land – Ostfalen is optimistic in these times and has published the new calendar of events together with the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park and the city of Königslutter am Elm. 2020 is a record year: with almost 400 events, the calendar has never been as extensive as […]

The Geoparks in Germany – Geology to touch Germany’s geoparks united at one stand – at the didacta educational fair, the actors promote their extracurricular learning locations, which make billions of years of earth history tangible. Volcanic rock in your hands, the spray of the geyser on the face, with […]

In 2000, 4 institutions came together and made a groundbreaking decision – the Geopark Vulkaneifel (Germany), the Natural History Museum of the island of Lesbos (Greece), the Geopark Haute Provence (France) and the Natural Park Maestrazgo (Spain) jointly founded the European Geopark Network (EGN). This was about the protection of […]

Königslutter am Elm, 30.01.2020 The Geopark-Carrier Association Braunschweiger Land – Ostfalen e.V. has elected a new Managing Board. After the previous chairman Hans Werner Schlichting retired and Uwe Borchers (Königslutter am Elm) and Henry Bäsecke (Schöningen) soon to retire from active service, new elections to the Board of Directors were […]

Grasleben & Königslutter am Elm, 18.12.2019 Sponsor hans Werner Schlichting and board member Detlef Kaatz welcomed the expansion of the Geopark partner network to include SG Grasleben. Together they want to promote the Geopark and expand the infrastructure according to the requirements of UNESCO. The mayor of The velvet community […]

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture drew three facilities in the Geopark Harz . Brunswick Land . Ostfalen as an extracurricular learning place according to GNI (Education for Sustainable Development). Together with the Municipal Museum Schloss Salder and the operators of the Geopoint Jurameer Schandelah (Dr. Scheller Foundation and State […]

And that’s a good thing, because after all, it’s all about the whole thing: the future project Earth! So get involved! Show your ideas and participate in the Federal Environmental Competition! Every year, the BWU offers all young people the opportunity to get involved and to counteract environmental problems with […]

Time travel – fossil searches in hornwood On our journey back in time to the Middle Ages, we will investigate many questions from 10 a.m.: Why are there quarries? How do mussels get into the Elm? What did it look like here in the past? And how long are 240 […]

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary, associations and institutions from the natural and environmental sectors offer information and participation activities at various stands around lake Dowesee. Also the Geopark Harz . Brunswick Land . Ostfalen will be there on this day and will offer great promotions. Come and have […]