Barger sea

Barger sea
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Geographical location	Detern municipality , Leer district , Lower Saxony
Location close to the shore	Detern , Barßel
Data
Coordinates	53 ° 11 ′ 23 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 23 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 3"  E
surface	3 ha
length	300 m
width	100 m
Maximum depth	2.5 m
Middle deep	1.5 m
particularities	Nature reserve

The Barger Meer is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Detern in the district of Leer .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG WE 102 is 15.35  hectares . It is partly part of the approximately 7 hectare FFH area of ​​the same name . The area has been a nature reserve since December 13, 1941. The nature conservation ordinance was last amended in 2016. The nature reserve was expanded from 6.3 hectares to its current size. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Leer.

The nature reserve is located south of Detern in Barger Hammrich between Jümme and Leda . It places two lakes created by sand extraction and the bank areas surrounding them as well as an adjacent parcel of land under protection. The bank areas are occupied by scrub forests made up of willow- buckthorn bushes, followed by small-scale, structurally rich pedunculate oak-birch forests and alder-oak-birch forests. The adjacent parcel is an abandoned wet meadow which, as a result of the abandonment of use, is covered with shrubs such as red alder and sand birch .

The two lakes in question are the Barger Kolk I, also known as the Barger Meer, which was built in 1930 in the north, and the Barger sand pit in the south, which was built in the 1970s and 1980s. The Barger Kolk I is about 3 hectares and about 1.20 to 2.50 meters deep, the Barger sand pit is about 10 hectares and up to 20 meters deep. In the eastern edge areas, small bodies of water were created in the 1990s to increase the structural diversity, which have developed naturally.

In the bank areas you can sometimes find vibrating lawns . Furthermore dwarf rush vegetation settles here. In some places in the lakes there are societies with beachlings , the water areas are partly covered by frogweed . Also suitable Sundew , Eleocharis acicularis , lycopodiella inundata and Pillenfarn ago.

In the nature reserve are u. a. Sea frog , common toad , great crested grebe , tufted duck , coot , kingfisher and woody bird species such as treecreeper and pied flycatcher as well as various dragonfly species are indigenous.

The nature reserve borders mainly on agricultural areas , from which it is partially separated by public roads. The two lakes are the fishing club Old Office Stickhausen as angling water used.

See also

• List of lakes in Lower Saxony

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barger Meer , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved April 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Barger Kolk I , Fischereiverein Stickhausen eV. Accessed on September 28, 2016.
3. ↑ Barger Sandkuhle , Fischereiverein Altes Amt Stickhausen eV. Accessed on September 28, 2016.