Hormersdorfer Hochmoor, Nature reserve in Zwönitz, Germany.

The Hormersdorfer Hochmoor is a protected nature reserve with bog areas where rare plants and animals live. The landscape shows typical raised bog features with low-growing vegetation and wet, acidic soils.

The area received protected status in 1961 after being used for peat extraction for many years. This protection allowed nature to recover after the long period of exploitation.

Locals call the bog Kiefernweiche, a name tied to the pines growing there, including the mountain pine Pinus mugo. Among the plants a visitor can look for are bog birch, heather, bilberry, cranberry and round-leaved sundew, a carnivorous plant of the wet bog surface.

The reserve lies about 1 km south of Hormersdorf, a district of Zwönitz, and covers 10.63 ha. The sources describe no trails, boards or viewing platform, so visitors should not expect facilities; the wet, acidic bog ground is best avoided or crossed only with care.

The bog is one of the northernmost raised bogs in the Ore Mountains and is called Kiefernweiche locally. This name refers to the special pine species that grow in this rare bog landscape.