Borghorster Elblandschaft nature reserve

	Borghorster Elblandschaft nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	The Borghorster Brack
location	Hamburg , Germany
surface	224 ha
WDPA ID	318221
Geographical location	53 ° 26 ' N , 10 ° 18' E Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '57 " N , 10 ° 17' 38" E
Setup date	2000
administration	BUE

The nature reserve Borghorster Elblandschaft is a nature reserve in the Hamburg district of Bergedorf and is congruent with the FFH area of the same name . The nature reserve was granted protection status on September 19, 2000.

scope

The Schlinz or Schlenze, a creek in the Altengammer Elbwiesen

The nature reserve is a total of 226 hectares and consists of three sub-areas.

The Borghorster dunes and Elbe meadows with 135 hectares are north of the street Am Kringel. The landscape consists mainly of inland dunes , a pine forest and wet meadows .

The Altengammer Elbwiesen with 65 hectares are located south of the street Am Kringel and are therefore also called Kringelwiesen. They consist of different types of meadows, such as wet and fresh meadows as well as poor grassland and the FFH habitat type Brenndoldenwiese .

The Borghorster Brack is a 26-hectare excavation created by a dike breach . It offers a habitat for several species that are protected under the Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive .

In Schleswig-Holstein, the landscape continues in the area of the city of Geesthacht with the nature reserve Besenhorster Sandberge and Elbe sand meadows , which have been under nature protection since 1993.

Flora and fauna

The areas include freshwater - Tide - reedbeds , a tidal floodplain forest , water meadows, Bracks and inland dunes , heathland and dry grassland .

Over 360 species of plants grow in the nature reserve, 89 of which are on the Hamburg Red List . Among them are the umbel , a fern with the name adder tongue and the thistle-like umbelliferous field man litter .

There are already 70 species of moths and 21 species of grasshopper, as well as many rare birds.

EU-Life project Borghorster Elbwiesen

Due to the partial filling of the Mühlenberger Loch to expand the Airbus plant in Finkenwerder , the city of Hamburg and the state of Schleswig-Holstein have been planning, since April 2002, as an ecological compensation, the tide-dependent rewetting of the Borghorster Elbe meadows on an area of around 40 to 90 hectares. For this purpose, the dam on the Elbe , built around 1970 to protect the country, is to be reopened over a length of around 80 meters. During storm surges and floods, the water of the Elbe could run into the Besenhorster Sandberge.

criticism

The interference in the existing landscape and in the flood protection is not without controversy among residents . They fear an increase in the water table . The city of Geesthacht also rejects the project.

The Naturschutzbund Deutschland declared on March 10, 2009 that it would support the project because it would create a habitat for special fauna and flora and the new floodplain would serve to protect against flooding.

Web links

Commons : Borghorster Elblandschaft - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 2527303 Borghorster Elbe landscape. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved February 25, 2016.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Clarification on the Borghorster Elbe landscape, NABU advocates opening of the dam in the nature reserve ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved May 26, 2011 @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b ^c LIFE for Elbe Jungle: Planning approval procedure for EU project Borghorster Elbwiesen / Besenhorster Sandberge started ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein from August 28, 2003; Retrieved July 4, 2011@1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Geesthacht says no - Bergedorfer Zeitung of May 13, 2011 ; Retrieved May 29, 2011

↑ Controversial flooding is approaching - Bergedorfer Zeitung of December 17, 2010 ; Retrieved May 26, 2011

[1] 2527303 Borghorster Elbe landscape. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved February 25, 2016.