Börde

[1] These landscapes often cover great areas and are particularly important for arable farming on account of their rich soils.

These regions coincide closely with areas of flat, fertile loess soil and few trees.

Börden are found in Germany, especially in the North German Old Drift region on the northern edges of Central Uplands.

In the heraldic motto of the House of Alsleben is the term Vorborde, which is translated today as "for the ancestral land".

In some places the loess lies over boulder clay (on the rivers Weser, Leine and Oker), in others over Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentary rocks (in the Hellwegbörden and the foreland of the Harz Mountains).