About 100 km south-east of Berlin in the State of Brandenburg, lies the beautiful Spreewald Biosphere Reserve.
Like most of Brandenburg, this region was sculpted during the last Ice Age by the retreating glaciers.
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The Spreewald has been settled since thousands of years.
Between the 2nd and the 5th century, Germanic tribes lived here.
In the 6th century, during the course of the great migration, the first Slavic settlers arrived here.
Under them, the natural landscape in the Spreewald developed into a cultivated landscape.
Today, the small sandy islands that developed by silt deposition is home to farmlands and residential houses.
Spreewald is well worth a great day trip from Berlin.
