Almstorfer Moor

Almstorfer Moor IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Eastern part of the Almstorfer Moor
location	Between Römstedt and Himbergen , Uelzen district , Lower Saxony
surface	12 ha
Identifier	NSG LÜ 149
WDPA ID	162069
FFH area	11.6 ha
Geographical location	53 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '53 "  N , 10 ° 41' 16"  E
Sea level	from 73 m to 75 m
Setup date	2nd February 1987
administration	NLWKN

The Almstorfer Moor is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxon municipality of Himbergen in the joint municipality of Bevensen-Ebstorf in the Uelzen district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 149 is 12  hectares in size. It is completely part of the FFH area "Red-bellied toad occurrence Strothe / Almstorf". The area has been a nature reserve since February 16, 1987. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Uelzen.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Bad Bevensen between Römstedt and Himbergen. It is a small, non-cultivated Moor rest under protection, which in its eastern part of alder and willow carr and water-filled former Torfstichen is embossed. In the western part, a temporary over dammed includes grassland area and extensively managed pine mixed forest at.

At the time it was placed under protection, the nature reserve was home to one of the last red-bellied toad habitats in the district of Uelzen, which lives here at its western limit. Earlier occurrences that reached as far as the Aller are extinct. The fire-bellied toad also disappeared in the Almstorfer Moor. Attempts were made to reintroduce them in the 1990s.

The nature reserve is completely surrounded by agricultural land . It drains to the Gollernbach, which flows over the Röbbelbach into the Ilmenau .

Web links

Commons : Almstorfer Moor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Almstorfer Moor" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The "Almstorfer Moor" , Institute of species protection. Retrieved February 15, 2012.