Old grinder pond area

	NSG Altes Schleifer pond area IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	North-east access to the NSG (2007)
location	Loop , Saxony , Germany
surface	67.57 ha
Identifier	D 85
WDPA ID	162123
Natura 2000 ID	DE-4453-301
Geographical location	51 ° 32 ' N , 14 ° 33' E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '15 " N , 14 ° 33' 0" E
Setup date	1981

The Altes Schleifer Teichgelände nature reserve is located in the municipality of Runde in the Saxon district of Görlitz . It bears the NSG identification D 85. The area between loop and Trebendorf has been under nature protection since 1981 . It is part of the Muskauer Heide and is characterized by mixed deciduous and coniferous forests and wet meadows . The Struga flows through the nature reserve.

The FFH area Altes Schleifer Teichgelände has also existed since 2002 (ID DE-4453-301). The FFH area is part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas . It has a slightly different layout than the nature reserve: on the one hand it is larger than the NSG, on the other hand it does not cover the entire NSG. However, the core area of both areas is identical.

Area description

The area lies on the Cottbus – Görlitz railway line at the foot of the Trebendorfer plateau. This area has been known to have been used since the 13th century. The forests were used for beekeeping and logging or, after clearing, they were used as meadows for agriculture. In the meantime, former ponds such as the large pond and the small pond, the Studźonkteich, were created in the wetland for fish farming.

Field names indicate the nature and use of the legendary cultural landscape. Knowledge of the species-rich flora and fauna exists through the writings of Johann Hano-Hantscho . He wrote down a large part of the Schleifer world of legends. Many incidents from his literature play out in the large pond area. The meaning of the Sorbian name of Loop, Slepo , was also traced back to the pond area. Accordingly, Slepo derives from slip 'mumbling, smacking'. This sound can be heard when walking across a wet meadow.

Since 1867 (Gustav-Adolf pit), this area was influenced by coal mining, from 1962 to 1969 mainly by the Trebendorfer Felder opencast mine and since 1969 by the Nochten opencast mine . Due to the intensive use in agriculture and the amelioration, the flora was affected by the fall of 1989. The Struga was still an industrial effluents leading stinking trickle. In the summer of 1981 the large and small ponds were declared a nature reserve. It has been an FFH area since 2002. A nature trail was set up in 2006.

Flora and fauna

Flora:

Blue Columbine
Wood anemone
Strawberry-leaved cinquefoil
Frog spoon
Frog bite
Water crowfoot
Spotted orchid
Spotted lungwort
Bell heather
Ostrich fern
Carnation
Heather carnation
Skullcap
Kassubenwicke
Cruciferous
Creeping willow
Cuckoo carnation
Lung gentian
Adder tongue
Pipe grass
Celandine
Iridescent iris
Cowslip
Scaly finial
Common crucifer
Swamp sword lily
Marsh violets
Marsh marigold
Narrow-leaved pondweed
Phrygian knapweed
Devil bite
Woodruff
Broad-leaved sitter
Wiesenknopf (large)
Wiesenknopf (small)
Large two-leaf
Quaking grass
Ostrich loosestrife
Significant habitat types u. a. Bell heather wet heaths, bog birch forest, lowland hay meadows, wet meadows as orchid meadows / wild meadows, dry meadows, moats left in their natural state and cleaned, rushes and sedge meadows

Wildlife:

Wolf, black woodpecker, green woodpecker, white stork, cranes, mallard duck, greylag geese, white-tailed eagle, buzzard, great reed warbler, red deer, dachshund, red kite, fallow deer, common toad, common toad, moor frog, common frog, green toad, tawny owl, great blue-bellied ant Blue grouse, fire butterfly, mosaic damsel, darter, dragonfly

Web links

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"Old Schleifer pond area"