Stream valleys in the Kaufunger Forest

Stream valleys in the Kaufunger Forest
View into the Schwarzbachtal near Nienhagen
location	North-east of Kassel , Göttingen district , Lower Saxony
surface	332 ha
Identifier	NSG BR 157
WDPA ID	555690877
Geographical location	51 ° 19 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '52 "  N , 9 ° 39' 34"  E
Sea level	from 210 m to 510 m
Setup date	June 29, 2018

The stream valleys in the Kaufunger Wald are a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Staufenberg in the district of Göttingen .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG BR 157 is about 332  hectares . It is part of the 1289.76 hectare FFH area of ​​the same name . The partial areas of the reserve are mostly through the conservation area networked "Kaufunger Forest" with each other. Otherwise, in Lower Saxony, they mainly border on the nature reserve "Weserbergland - Kaufunger Wald", which is included in the nature reserve within the scope of the nature conservation ordinance. The " Hühnerfeld " nature reserve, designated in 1968, has also merged into the "Bachtäler im Kaufunger Wald" nature reserve. To the east of Nieste , two areas border the “Upper Niestetal” nature reserve on the Hessian side. The area has been under nature protection since July 29, 2018. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Göttingen.

The nature reserve, which consists of several sub-areas, is located northeast of Kassel in the Münden Nature Park in southern Lower Saxony. It protects parts of the Nieste , Ingelheimbach, Schwarzbach, Rotbach, Endschlagbach, Wengebach, Katzengraben and Hungershäuser Bach river valleys with its source streams and the chicken field in the Kaufunger Forest . In addition to the streams, the nature reserve primarily includes the open land areas of the stream valleys. Extensive use of grassland has resulted in species-rich oat meadows, arboreal grass lawns and wet meadows . Rush swamps and small sedge swamps have formed on abandoned wet meadows . The streams are often accompanied by alluvial forests . The chicken field included in the nature reserve is an intermediate moor on a high terrace of the Kaufunger Forest, which was created by grazing a forest with cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. Borstgrasgrasen, Pfeifengraswiesen and Kleinseggenriede as well as moor areas with high moor vegetation have arisen here.

The streams are close to nature with unspoilt banks and natural runoff. They have flooding aquatic vegetation in sunny places. The riverside forests are characterized by black alder , ash and broken willow . There are also English oak and hazel . Furthermore settle here u. a. Mountain fern and rib fern , pipe grass , bitter foam herb , chickweed and peat moss . The streams are habitat and a. of bullhead and brook lamprey .

The grassland areas present themselves as species-rich meadows and pastures . They are extensively managed. Some areas are grazed for maintenance, including areas in the Endschlagbachtal that are grazed with Icelandic horses. The Nardus grasslands accommodate bristle grass , three-toothed , Grannenlosen sheep fescue, ordinary moor grass, Multiflora woodrush , saving engined rush , Wiesensegge , Hirsesegge , Hasensegge , Arnica , Hypericum maculatum , Hain Augentrost , Bitter Vetch , Forest lousewort , ordinary Devil's , spotted orchid , Quendelblättriges milkwort , ordinary milkwort , bloodroot , Waldehrenpreis , dog violets , hawkweed and Harz bedstraw . Furthermore, house the grassland areas of the ordinary sweet vernal grass , Agrostis capillaris , Luzula campestris , nodules saxifrage , Heilziest , Bistort , Black Devil's Claw , swamp yarrow , bog bird's-foot trefoil , ragged robin , hawkweed , field scabious , Magerwiesenmargerite , lady's mantle, lesser saxifrage , autumn crocus and great burnet , which for the presence of the Dark Wiesenknopf ant blue is important.

Unused areas as well as the edge areas of the grasslands and partly the banks of the brooks are occupied by moist tall herbaceous vegetation. Here, among others , cane grass , forest corns , real meadowsweet , real valerian , purple loosestrife and yellow loosestrife settle . In places, wood and groups of trees are scattered in the grassland areas and fallow land.

Chicken field

The plant communities of the chicken field are characterized by boggy locations. On peat soils settle peat moss, white beak-sedge , Common Cranberry , Rosebay and vaginal cotton grass , Ordinary pennywort and deergrass , Wiesensegge and Carex echinata . Moor grass meadows are of blue moor grass, Spitzblütiger rush , tangle rush ingested Luzula campestris, Devil's, pennywort, bloodroot and Heilziest. The chicken field is the headwaters of a tributary of the Rotbach.

The nature reserve is a habitat and a. of Northern crested newt and greater mouse-eared and various dragonflies , including the Two Striped source of honor .

The stream valleys to the west of Nieste often border on agricultural areas , while the areas to the east of Nieste lie almost entirely in the forests of the Kaufunger Forest. Schwarzbach, Rotbach and Ingelheimbach are crossed by Kreisstraße 212 near Nienhagen , the Enschlagbach crosses a little above the confluence of the brook into the Nieste, Landesstraße 563, which continues on the edge of the valley areas of the Enschlagbach and also touches the area of ​​the Hungerhäuser Bach . The national road 563 also borders the nature reserve west of Nieste. Otherwise, the valley areas are only a few places of forest and other rural roads crossed.

Web links

Commons : Bachtäler im Kaufunger Wald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Bachtäler im Kaufunger Wald" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stream valleys in the Kaufunger Wald , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 2, 2018.
2. ^ Horses as landscape maintenance , Landschaftspflegeverband Landkreis Göttingen e. V. Accessed July 2, 2018.
3. ↑ Bach valleys in the Kaufunger Wald , BUND district group Göttingen. Retrieved August 27, 2019.