Drömling is a sparsely populated depression on the border ofLower Saxony andSaxony-Anhalt in Germany with an area of about 340 square kilometres (130 sq mi). The larger part belonging to Saxony-Anhalt in the east has been anature park since 1990. The formerswampland was transformed by drainage from a natural into a cultural landscape in the 18th century under the direction ofFrederick the Great ofPrussia. Today the depression, with its waterways, theMittelland Canal and the riversAller andOhre is a refuge for rare or endangered animal and plant species. Most of the area is now made up ofnature reserves andprotected areas. Nearby towns includeOebisfelde andWolfsburg.
Drömling lies in a flat hollow measuring about 15 to 20 kilometres across and surrounding by a 60-metrecontour. It is a wider section of the Breslau-Magdeburg-Bremen glacial valley. In broad terms, it stretches from Wolfsburg-Vorsfelde in the west toCalvörde in the east and fromKlötze in the north to Oebisfelde in the south. To the west thegeest ridges of theVorsfelder Werder border on Drömling.
Drömling extends over the following districts:Salzwedel,Börde,Gifhorn, Wolfsburg andHelmstedt.
52°28′57″N11°7′52″E / 52.48250°N 11.13111°E /52.48250; 11.13111
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