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A Koog (majority: is at the North Sea Coast of Schleswig-Holstein by dyke construction and drainage from the lake won, very flat march country. The dyke protects the country flooding, since it lies lower than the water level of waters, from which the country was won.
become in Oldenburg as Groden and in the Netherlands and in Lower Saxony, under it also East Frisia, when Polder marks.
Apart from the production of country from the sea one speaks it also at rivers of or Poldern, usually concerns former humid areas, which are agriculturally used now. Completely different ecological system becomes from a Flussaue or a break, of whose origin only the name reminds to be seen as by the example of the Oderbruchs.
On Rhine and or these surfaces are used also to the flood protection by means of tides. If the flood flowed off sufficiently, one pumps the water the Poldern and can these up to the next flood again agriculturally use.
Into the 1950er years were put on for economic reasons for land reclamation, since the coastal protection is the center of attention.
In the Netherlands and Flanders whole regions are eingedeicht and form a typical pole the landscape. The most well-known example are the Zuiderzeewerke, which transformed the Zuiderzee into the IJsselmeer.
At the Schleswig Holsteini west coast and the Elbe there are about 170
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The pole the landscape of the island Schokland in the Netherlands was taken up 1995 to the UNESCO Welterbeliste, since this culture landscape was particularly receive worth because of their "unusually universal value ".
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