Apfelberg (nature reserve, Main-Tauber district)

	Apfelberg nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Apfelberg nature reserve
location	Werbach , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	22.5 ha
Identifier	1,042
WDPA ID	81312
Geographical location	49 ° 41 ' N , 9 ° 37' E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '45 " N , 9 ° 36' 47" E
Setup date	April 11, 1978
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart

Apfelberg is a nature reserve on the outskirts of the Werbach district of Gamburg in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

In Baden-Württemberg there is an apple mountain nature reserve with the same name in the district of Karlsruhe. It bears the SGB no. 2,217 .

history

By regulation of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve Apfelberg of April 11, 1978, a reserve of 22.5 hectares was designated.

Protection purpose

"The main protection purpose is the preservation of the scenic diversity and beauty of the top of the apple mountain with its slopes as a particularly valuable habitat of species-rich, warmth and drought-loving flora and fauna" ( LUBW ).

Flora and fauna

Hilltop (380 m) made of wave dolomite and limestone, on the wooded north slope a blanket of Pleistocene loess, on the south slope earlier vineyards. Forest-free area with blue-grass lawn or semi-arid lawn in which feather-twinkles predominate. Thermophilic sedge-beech forest on the northern slope. In the semi-arid grass there is a hint of woody plants. Various pine trees.

literature

Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region. Updated new edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 312-314 (Apfelberg).

Web links

Commons : Naturschutzgebiet Apfelberg (Gamburg) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Apfelberg nature reserve: Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 312-314 (Apfelberg).
^ ^A ^b State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Apfelberg . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.

[Literatur-1] Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 312-314 (Apfelberg).

[LUBW-2] A ^b State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Apfelberg . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.