Excavation of Retlager Bach

	Nature reserve "Abgrabung Retlager Bach" IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Retlager Bach (2015)
location	Location and Detmold , Lippe district , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	156.86 ha
Identifier	LIP – 086 (location) ; LIP – 089 (Detmold)
WDPA ID	378137
Geographical location	51 ° 58 ' N , 8 ° 48' E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '45 " N , 8 ° 47' 39" E
Setup date	2006
particularities	three partial areas

The Retlager Bach excavation areas are two nature reserves designated in 2006 by the Detmold regional council (NSG number LIP – 085 and –086) in the North Rhine-Westphalian cities of Lage and Detmold in the Lippe district in Germany .

location

The total of around 157 hectares (ha), including 145.26 hectares in Lage and 11.6 hectares in the Detmold area, large nature reserves Abgrabung Retlager Bach naturally belong to the Lipper Bergland . They extend south of the city center of Lagens in the area of the Müssener gravel works , between the state roads 944 in the northeast, 758 in the southeast and 945 in the southwest.

description

The Protected Areas Abgrabung Retlager Bach are described as areas with standing waters worthy of protection and endangered, backwaters with wood on one side of the banks, flat banks, shallow water zones and floating leaf vegetation, excavation waters with high herbaceous meadows , low-growth bank meadows, endangered woody structures and deciduous forests that are worthy of protection and endangered.

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation, development and restoration of a regionally significant, near-natural, structurally rich biotope complex of flowing waters with accompanying alluvial forests and substitute communities and large still waters in the Werre-Hügelland landscape as a habitat for rare, endangered and typical species of flora and fauna.

Flora and fauna

flora

Of the flora worthy of protection, the " species of the red list of endangered plants in North Rhine-Westphalia" occurring in the area are to be mentioned:

Winged St. John's Wort

Marsh marigold , also known as marsh valerian

White water lily

Wiesen-Pippau

fauna

Among the fauna worthy of protection, the "species of the Red List of Endangered Animals in North Rhine-Westphalia" and animal species according to the Habitats Directive are to be mentioned: