Liebenwerda Heath

To the north it extends as far as the village of Oppelhain in the municipality of Rückersdorf and in the south to the northern boundary of Haida.

In 1557, the Electoral Saxon mine surveyour (Markscheider) and state land surveyor (Landvermesser), Georg Öder, gave the dimensions of the heath as three miles long and one mile wide.

[1] On the Liebenwerda Heath was one of the largest contiguous sessile oak forests of Central Europe.

Large parts of the terrain were used for decades as a military training area.

The Forsthaus Prösa Nature Reserve, which lies on the heath and has an area of 3,695 hectares, is the heart of the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park, which covers 484 square kilometres.