Albuchwiesen

	FFH area ; "Albuchwiesen"
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location	Ostalbkreis , District of Göppingen and District of Heidenheim , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier	DE-7225-341
WDPA ID	555521851
Natura 2000 ID	DE7225341
FFH area	51.1 ha
Geographical location	48 ° 47 ' N , 10 ° 1' E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '35 " N , 10 ° 1' 17" E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart
particularities	smallest FFH area in Baden-Württemberg

The Albuchwiesen area is a protected area in the east of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg registered by ordinance of January 1, 2005 by the Stuttgart Regional Council according to Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) . With the ordinance of the regional council of Stuttgart on the definition of areas of community importance of October 30, 2018, the protected area was established.

location

The 51.1 hectare (ha) protected area is part of the Albuch and Härtsfeld nature reserves . Its nine sub-areas extend over four municipalities in three districts :

Essingen (Ostalbkreis) - 28.46 ha = 55.7%
Bartholomä (Ostalbkreis) - 15.49 ha = 30.3%
Böhmenkirch (district of Göppingen) - 6.96 ha = 13.6%
Steinheim am Albuch (Heidenheim district) - 0.19 ha = 0.4%

Brief description, protection purpose

There are nine smaller sub-areas with former litter meadows and Hülben on the Eastern Alb. The sub-areas offer a mosaic of acid-loving nist grass lawns, pipe grass meadows, still waters with small transitional moors and extensively used meadows. The still waters and small transitional moors comprise the majority of the wetlands of the Eastern Alb outside the Brenz Valley. These are relics of formerly large litter meadows, former forest pastures, hulls, flint clay ceilings, tertiary high valleys and dry valleys.

Habitats

The diversity of dry and humid habitat types in the protected area is described, among other things, by “flowing waters with flooding water vegetation”, “limestone grasslands”, “species-rich grasslands”, “ravine and hillside mixed forests” and “orchid-beech forests”.

Habitat classes



Inland waters (standing and flowing)			4%
Deciduous forest			1 %
Mixed forest			7%
Coniferous forest			1 %
Moist and mesophilic grassland			75%
Meliorated grassland			1 %
Bogs, swamps, vegetation on the banks			5%
Other (including cities, villages, roads)			1 %
Heath, scrub, scrub, garrigue, phrygana			5%

Contiguous protected areas

The bird sanctuary 7226-441 Albuch has around 41 percent shares in the FFH area.

The nature reserves are located within the FFH area

Web links

Ordinance, data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the FFH area in the LUBW protected area directory
7225-341 Albuchwiesen. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation .