Alb to the Upper Rhine

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FFH area
"Alb zum Hochrhein"
Albtal near Tiefenstein

Albtal near Tiefenstein

location 7 cities and municipalities in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier DE-8314-341
WDPA ID 555522206
Natura 2000 ID DE8314341
FFH area 12.101 km²
Geographical location 47 ° 39 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '19 "  N , 8 ° 6' 15"  E
Alb to the Upper Rhine (Baden-Württemberg)
Alb to the Upper Rhine
Setup date January 1, 2005
administration Regional council Freiburg
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The FFH area Alb zum Hochrhein is a protected area (protected area identifier DE-8314-341) in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg registered in 2005 by the Freiburg Regional Council according to Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) . With the ordinance of the regional council of Freiburg on the definition of areas of Community importance of October 25, 2018, the area was determined.

location

The 1210.1 hectare protected area belongs to the natural areas 155- Hochschwarzwald and 160- Hochrheintal within the natural spatial main units 15- Black Forest and 16- Hochrheinggebiet .

It essentially comprises the valley of the Alb between St. Blasien and Albbruck and extends over the markings of seven cities and municipalities in the district of Waldshut:

Description and purpose of protection

The protected area is a deeply cut canyon valley in the southern Black Forest with a natural mountain stream, floodplain gallery forests, ravine forests, beech forests as well as rocks and rubble heaps. Species-rich grassland in places on the valley floor. Extensive beech forests in the southwest.

Habitat classes

(general characteristics of the area) (percentage of total area)

Information according to the standard data sheet from the Official Journal of the European Union

N06 - inland waters (standing and flowing)
  
1 %
N10 - Moist and mesophilic grassland
  
8th %
N16 - deciduous forest
  
25%
N17 - coniferous forest
  
15%
N19 - mixed forest
  
50%
N22 - inland cliffs, scree and rubble heaps,
  
1 %

Habitat types

According to Appendix 1 of the ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council on the definition of areas of community importance (Habitats Ordinance) of October 25, 2018, the following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU
code
Habitat type (official name) Short name Hectares
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation Natural nutrient-rich lakes 0.20
3260 Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation 24.50
4030 Dry European heaths Dry heaths 0.09
6230 Species-rich montane grass grass on silicate soils Species-rich bristle grass lawn 0.80
6430 Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level Moist tall herbaceous vegetation 2.00
6510 Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) Lean, lowland hay meadows 32.50
7110 Living raised bogs Near-natural raised bogs 0.50
7140 Transitional and swinging lawn bogs Transitional and swinging lawn bogs 0.10
7150 Peat Bog Schlenken (Rhynchosporion) Peat bog ditches 0.20
7230 Lime-rich fens Lime-rich fens 0.09
8150 Siliceous debris heaps in the mountainous areas of Central Europe Silicate debris heaps 4.80
8220 Silicate rocks with crevice vegetation Silicate rocks with crevice vegetation 13.40
8230 Silicate rocks with pioneer vegetation of Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii Pioneer lawn on silicate rock tops 0.09
9110 Grove beech forest (Luzulo-Fagetum) Grove beech forest 16.10
9130 Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum) Woodruff beech forest 12.00
9180 Mixed ravine and hillside forests (Tilio-Acerion) Mixed ravine and hillside forests 37.60
91D0 Bog forests Bog forests 1.50
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow 30.60

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area overlaps with several landscape protection areas . The entire area is located in the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . The nature reserves

are completely in the FFH area.

See also

Web links

Commons : Alb zum Hochrhein (FFH area)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files