Transitional moor in the Wittenhorster Heide
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 39 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 8 ″ E
Transitional moor in the Wittenhorster Heide is a nature reserve in the area of the city of Rees in the district of Mehr in the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
meaning
The transition moor nature reserve in the Wittenhorster Heide is located in the east of Rees and was designated in 1992. With a size of 9.1 hectares, it is the smallest area managed by the Kleve Nature Conservation Center.
Characteristic elements of the landscape are forest, poor pastures and a very small transition moor . But despite its small size, some floristic rarities from the Kleve district can be found here . A number of species, some of which are highly endangered, grow on the moor , such as rosemary heather ( Andromeda polifolia ), mud sedge ( Carex limosa ), round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ), narrow-leaved cottongrass ( Eriophorum angustifolium ) or fever clover ( Menyanthes trifoliata ) .
In the north of the nature reserve, a poor pasture is grazed by two Tyrolean gray cattle for a large part of the year in order to preserve the wealth of herbs. Typical species include the sorrel ( Rumex acetosella ), the hawkweed ( Hieracium pilosella ) and the sand sedge ( Carex arenaria ).
Most of the nature reserve is covered by forest, which is no longer used economically. A large amount of dead wood and old trees provide through caves species such as the Natterer's bat ( Myotis nattereri ), Noctules and the common pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) a major retreat.
Protection goal
The protection designation serves the preservation of communities and habitats of wild plants and wild animal species, the preservation of the nutrient-poor transitional moor as well as the wooded inland dune , in particular for geological and cultural reasons.
The occurrence of the spotted darter is one of the largest in the area of the lower Lower Rhine . In addition to the biodiversity of plants from the Red List species occurring in the area , the area is particularly valuable for amphibians , aquatic insects, dragonflies and endangered plant communities.
The protected area is at risk from lowering of the groundwater level , eutrophication and bush encroachment as undesirable succession .
Protection goals and measures are the creation of sufficiently large buffer zones to avoid or minimize nutrient inputs through long-term extensification of the agricultural areas, the addition of a forest cover to the existing forest and the avoidance of bushes through the regular removal of woody plants.
See also
Web links
- Nature reserve “Transitional Moor in the Wittenhorster Heide” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Website of the nature conservation center in the Kleve district
- Landscape plan of the Kleve district for Rees, 2010
- 4203-401 Lower Lower Rhine. (EU bird sanctuary) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 22, 2019.