Old sand chew

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Old sand chew from the west

The Alte Sandkaut on the district of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Dirmstein is a former sand pit , whose name contains the dialect for pit . Today, the old sand is chewing on an operating as a production plant for the recycling of building materials used. A local association for environmental, village and landscape protection has named itself after the property .

geography

location

The Alte Sandkaut is about 130  m above sea level. NHN in the north of the Dirmstein field markings. The Floßbach flows 600 m south over 110  m from west to east , to the north the terrain rises slightly to the 800 m distant crest of the Schneckenberg ( 143  m ). The former sand pit is about 200 m in diameter.

reachability

From the residential area, the Alte Sandkaut is reached after a 1200 m drive over the Heppenheimer Weg , which branches off to the north from Heuchelheimer Straße (which connects  the cities of Grünstadt and Frankenthal as state road 453 ) and is initially paved, later gravel. The removal of the old sand Kaut west to State Road 455 (Dirmstein- Marloffstein ) is 400 m to the east and to extend the leading of Dirmstein north Stahlberg road m 600 unpaved rural roads have to be covered.

geology

During the ice ages , in the spatial surroundings of the glaciation of large parts of Europe, even in the area of ​​today's Dirmstein, there was gradual sliding of the slopes and abrasion by the wind . These processes led to an alluvial fan level with embankment or erosion terraces. In addition, in the dry and cold phases of the Worm Ice Age , layers of loess were created by the influence of wind ; the loess mainly accumulated on faults and in the lee of small hollows. In such a hollow, which had formed in front of a spoiler lip, the sand accumulation developed, which has been exploited until modern times.

history

Large-scale sand mining in the Alte Sandkaut
"Insect villa " built by the Alte Sandkaut environmental association on the Floßbach

After the sand pit was closed in the second half of the 20th century, the mine site was leased in 1989 by the local community to a private industrial company , which recycles building materials there, but also mines sand.

In response to the lease, a citizens' initiative was launched in 1989, and in January 1990 the Alte Sandkaut Dirmstein e. V. founded in order to preserve the eponymous sand pit as a biotope and to keep the impairment caused by commercial use as low as possible. Today, the association also deals in general with nature and landscape protection through regular field inspections and the restoration of natural and cultural objects. He has taken over the sponsorship for sections of Eckbach and Floßbach and tries to win kindergarten and school children for nature conservation.

After the area could initially be visited regularly by conservationists , after a few years it was fenced in and closed with a gate. Since then it has no longer been accessible to third parties.

Environmental protection and fauna

Following a private inspection of the area on September 17, 2014, it was criticized that the facility was in a state that was more reminiscent of a lunar landscape than a biotope . The main reason given was that sand was being mined around the central tree-lined hill, causing the side slopes to slide. As a result, the mound loses its girth and volume.

During the inspection , numerous small animals were registered directly in front of the fences in the vegetation, which consists of uncut grass and uncut scrub and bushes : wall lizards and a sand lizard ; Spiders of several species, especially orb web spiders , but also a number of wolf spiders ; various species of locusts , including a mole cricket . There were also mouse holes, but the residents did not show themselves. Animals that depend on moisture, such as frogs or toads , could not be detected. Birds can be clearly identified: magpies , blackbirds , starlings , skylarks , goldfinches , a linnet and a great tit .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ Recycling plant + Dirmstein sand pit. (No longer available online.) Grathwohl GmbH, archived from the original on April 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grathwohl-gruenstadt.de
  3. ↑ a b About us. "Alte Sandkaut" Dirmstein e. V., accessed April 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Our Bach sponsorships. "Alte Sandkaut" Dirmstein e. V., accessed April 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ "Alte Sandkaut". "Alte Sandkaut" Dirmstein e. V., archived from the original on May 7, 2013 ; Retrieved July 8, 2011 .
  6. ^ Associations for animal lovers and environmentalists. Dirmstein parish, accessed on September 15, 2014 .
  7. ^ A b Albert H. Keil : Condition of the "Alte Sandkaut" . E-mail to several recipients, including the local community of Dirmstein, various nature and environmental conservationists and C47 . Dirmstein September 23, 2014.

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 47 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  E