Morphology
There is scarcely another landscape in Germany on which the influence of the ice age is as immediately obvious as it is in Mecklenburg. This district's natural surface structure vividly reflects the processes connected with the icing-up of the European mainland: ranges of terminal moraines, rather flat-waved plateaux of ground moraines, sections of steep coast and flat coast, channels carved by melting and out-flowing processes, as well as outwash plains - all this has left an unmistakable mark on this area's landscape. The northern section of our district is shaped by hilly land and by the bay of Wismar; its larger, southern area forms part of the "West Mecklenburg lake landscape" that includes Lake Schwerin.