Großes Moor bei Becklingen, Nature reserve in Lüneburg Heath, Germany

The Großes Moor bei Becklingen is an 850-hectare nature reserve on the Lüneburg Heath, south of Wietzendorf and east of Becklingen in the borough of Bergen. Its open areas are dominated by purple moor grass, with bog pools, cotton grass and sundew; the River Meiße rises in the raised bog. Dams have re-flooded former drainage channels to rewet the land.

The raised bog formed over thousands of years, then faced drainage and agricultural changes starting in the 1950s before gaining protected status in 1985. The reserve designation allowed gradual recovery of lost wetland features.

The Heinrich Eggers Tower, an 8.44-metre observation tower of oak, was erected in November 2013 in the southwest of the reserve. Its viewing platform holds a fixed telescope, and panels at its base explain the bog's development since 1770 and the restoration measures carried out.

The Heinrich-Eggers-Turm, an 8.44-metre observation tower of oak, stands in the southwest of the reserve and is open to the public; a fixed telescope is mounted on its viewing platform. Information boards at its foot explain the bog's development since 1770 and the restoration measures carried out so far.

The Heinrich-Eggers-Turm, an 8.44-metre observation tower of oak, was built in the southwest of the reserve in November 2013. A fixed telescope stands on its viewing platform, and boards at its foot explain how the raised bog has changed since 1770 and what has been done to restore it.