Kühlung

The Kühlung is a forested ridge, up to 129.8 m above sea level (NHN), in the north German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

This slope is covered by a contiguous strip of forest, between 500 metres and one kilometre wide, with a total area of 6,300 hectares.

In its longest valley there is a series of ponds, the Hüttener Klosterteiche, that are under a higher level of protection than the rest of the Kühlung.

[1] The hills and the unusual soil composition of the Kühlung were created during the Last glacial period of Europe by the compression of moraines.

The natural pits in the northern slope that were created by blocks of slowly melting ice, when the glacier was retreating.