Ainringer moss
The Ainringer Moos is a moorland west of Ainring in the Berchtesgadener Land district with an area of 250 hectares. Together with the Peracher Moos to the north, it forms the Ainringer and Peracher Moos conservation area . The area was extensively pitted in the 20th century and has been under renaturation since 2003 .
Emergence
Its natural history originated the Ainringer moss in Wurm Age about 12,000 years ago. In a depression created by the glacier ice on the northern edge of the Högl , a swamp bog formed , in the north in the transition to a raised bog . The peat layer reached a thickness of up to nine meters.
Traces of settlement such as the moor sacrifice place and the plank path originate from the Bronze Age and the Urnfield Age , which is why parts of the area are under monument protection .
Peeling
The peat cutting began in the early 19th century. Peat-cutting farmers delivered peat to the saltworks in Bad Reichenhall , the Ebner lime distillery in Rott and the horseshoe factory in Hammerau .
In the economic crisis after the First World War, the Bavarian State Peat Works was founded to produce fuel. After drainage, the edge area was used for agriculture and forestry, for example to protect spruce. In the core area, extensive clearing took place and the milling peat removal worked its way south from the Rosenheim – Salzburg railway line to the north . The railway network of the Mühlreit peat plant was expanded as a narrow-gauge railway with a track width of 600 mm to up to 13 kilometers and operated with six locomotives. From 1968 the plant belonged to the BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke , later under the name BHS-Humus and Euflor, and delivered to the garden area. Up to 100 workers were employed in the 90 hectare mining area.
The drainage takes place in the west via Schwarzgraben and Kleine Sur to Sur , in the east via Sonnwiesgraben and Mittergraben also to Sur.
Renaturation and Tourism
After the industrial use, the renaturation begun in the 1990s was extended to the entire mining area in 2003, this was rewetted by closing the drainage ditches, reed zones and bushy areas with birch trees formed. The railway network was dismantled here. In 2013, after the laying of the federal highway 304, a new railway line was built on the edge of the opencast mine, on which visitor trips are organized. A small museum is operated at the Niederstraß loading station. On the east side of the quarry, which has been flooded with groundwater to create a lake landscape, a 2.5 kilometer long moor adventure trail with an observation tower was laid out. Another path leads around the opencast mine with a moor treading basin and a show peat cut.
A wide variety of birds and other animals have settled here. In a study, 40 of the 152 species found were members of the Red Lists .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ainringer Moos . In: Euregio Salzburg
- ↑ Ordinance of the district of Berchtesgadener Land on the landscape protection area "Ainringer and Peracher Moos" of February 16, 1995
- ↑ Ainringer Moos . In: Bavarian State Forests
- ↑ Ground monument D-1-8143-0177
- ↑ Florian Sepp: Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG (BHS). In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . December 20, 2007, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ↑ Ainring / Mühlreit: Opening ceremony of the new light rail line at the Mühlreit peat plant | Rupertiwinkel. bg-land24.de, October 28, 2013, accessed on August 11, 2018 .
- ^ Ainring peat railway . In: Documentation Center Railway Research
- ↑ Faunistic surveys on rewetted milled peat areas in Schönramer Filz and Ainringer Moos
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 40.1" E