Barnstedt

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Barnstedt (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Ilmenau
Height :	49 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.71 km 2
Residents:	726 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21406
Area code :	04134
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 006
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Am Diemel 6 21406 Melbeck
Mayor :	Randolf von Estorff
Location of the community Barnstedt in the district of Lüneburg

Barnstedt is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony . It is the smallest of the four member communities of the Ilmenau community .

geography

Community area

The community area is about 20 km². More than half of this area is used for agriculture.

location

The Barnstedter school chronicle still provides a fitting description. It was recorded around 1900 by the village school teacher Wilhelm Knigge:

“Barnstedt is in a valley, to the north, south and west the ground is much higher. The village does not suffer from excessive drought, and in some places it is even quite humid. When heavy rain breaks out, some streets can be compared to a rushing brook. During the rainy season there is always a lot of dirt on the streets. The area is hilly. There are no higher mountains. To the west of the village, a short distance away, is the Goldberg, where, however, no gold, but the most beautiful white and yellow sand is found. It is gradually being removed. In the north is the Mühlenberg, on which the windmill stands. To the east of the village rises the Butterberg and, further away, in a small wood on the road to Ebstorf, the Kuchenberg, which indeed looks somewhat like a pancake. If you walk the path to Süsing , you have to cross the Krähenberg and if you follow the Richtweg to Glüsingen, climb up the steep Spitzberg. "

- The Barnstedt school chronicle

Neighboring communities

Heinsen 3.5 km	Embsen 5.6 km	Melbeck 6.3 km
Betzendorf 4.1 km		Bardenhagen , Eitzen I 2.6 km, 5.0 km
Tellmer 7.0 km	Velgen 6.5 km	Beverbeck 5.5 km

history

Barnstedt manor chapel

Entrance door of the Barnstedt manor chapel

The von Estorff family has lived on the Barnstedt manor since the 12th century . In 1576 the brothers Heinrich, Carl and Luleff von Estorff decided to build a chapel in Barnstedt. In 1593 Ludolph von Estorff fulfilled his father's wish and built this chapel. In 1731 Eleonore de Farcy de St. Laurent, wife of Ludolph-Otto von Estorff zu Barnstedt, had the chapel moved to this location and provided it with a tower and a bell from 1368. The pulpit altar also dates from this time. In 1893 the dilapidated chapel was restored by Albrecht von Estorff through a thorough renovation. The north entrance will be relocated to the west and provided with a porch. In 1966 the painted over pictures of the pulpit altar from the time of 1731 were uncovered again, as well as the painted beams. In 1985 the district of Lüneburg carried out a complete renovation. An old tiled floor was exposed again. The previously hidden half-timbering of the gable front was made visible again. The ceiling surface got its old version back. The “grisaille” painting was added to the oak floor planks. The aim of the renovation was to restore the chapel's original character. In the meantime (as of 2016) the chapel is being renovated again.

Incorporations

In the course of the community reform , the neighboring village of Kolkhagen was incorporated into Barnstedt on March 1, 1974.

politics

The community Barnstedt belongs to the state constituency 47 Uelzen and the federal constituency 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg-Lüneburg .

Municipal Council:

• Randolf von Estorff , CDU (Council Chairman)
• Axel Schröder, CDU
• Hans-Georg Brümmerhoff, UWI
• Hinrich Meyer, UWI
• Dennis Prigge, UWI
• Ilka Buecher, SPD
• Martin Schreiber, SPD
• Hans-Georg Kramer, Alliance 90 '/ The Greens
• Christina Mumm, Alliance 90 '/ The Greens

Status: Local elections in Lower Saxony 2016

Culture and sights

Barnstedt manor, presumably from the 8th century, owned by the von Estorff family since 1165 . The oldest part is the manor chapel, built in 1593, today also used for concerts and readings.

Geology, nature and landscape

geology

The municipality is part of the northern German Middle Pleistocene landscape, which means that the surface shape was not formed by the last, the Vistula Ice Age , but the older Saale Ice Age through the deposition of Scandinavian debris. This means that they have been in the area of ​​today's municipality of Barnstedt for 165,000 to 210,000 years.

The vast majority of these are sands and gravels of a glazifluviatric nature, which means that they were transported by meltwater and then deposited. Only a very small proportion of the area north of Kolkhagen and on the south-western outskirts of Barnstedt is ground moraine and therefore more loamy, because the finer particles were not first transported away by the water, but remained in place.

On the northern outskirts of Barnstedt there is a small area of ​​fine sandy clay and silt, a pool deposit. During the Saale Glacial Period, there must have been a body of water at the bottom of which fine suspended matter could settle into a layer several meters thick over long periods of time. This clay deposit was the livelihood for the former Barnstedter brickworks, which is recorded as such on the first edition of the measuring table sheet 2828 Bienenbüttel, which was published in 1901.

The geological peculiarity is the Kolkhagen salt dome. It is a huge bulge of the Zechstein layer, which is 3000 to 5000 m deep . The Zechstein salt comes from ancient times, the Permian period . The layer is around 250 million years old. It connects all the salt domes in the near and far surroundings. The salt domes were pressed up with different intensities: while the Lüneburg salt dome, which is only ten kilometers away from the northern limit of the Kolkhagen salt dome, broke through the surface of the earth and was not covered by the Ice Age debris, the upward movement of the Kolkhagen salt dome was somewhat weaker, so that its gypsum hat is so close below the surface of the earth that the salt is in the area of ​​influence of the groundwater and is continuously sucked off a little. This salt removal has been proven as the salt content in the Barnstedt-Melbeck brook around one kilometer west of Melbeck in the Barnstedt / Melbeck area. The salt erosion also leads to underground cavities which, when they have become large enough, result in collapses in the glacial cover layer. Since the top layer consists of sand and gravel, funnel-shaped hollow shapes are to be expected on the surface of the earth. Exactly these more or less round sinkholes are a characteristic of the landscape of Barnstedt, Eitzen I , Beverbeck and Bienenbüttel . If the sinkholes were only shallow and are located in the field marrow, they often do not appear much because they are then plowed or used for forestry like their adjacent areas. Some, however, are so deep that they lie within the influence of the groundwater and have become ponds. This applies to three sinkholes in the Kolkhagen part of the municipality, two of which have developed into biotopes that are valuable from a national point of view: the so-called "Heinser Meerauge" (on the border to the northwestern neighboring municipality of Embsen ) and the pond in Grewoh (see section on vegetation ). The third pond, which was only created in 1933, is located in a forest on the edge of the lowland of the Barnstedter Bach and has almost no vegetation. Two other relatively deep sinkholes south of Kolkhagen (on Triftweg) and south of Barnstedt are only sporadically filled with water from surface water influx. These sinkholes were the subject of pollen analysis studies along with two other investigations. The sinkhole on Triftweg was also mapped as a biotope of national importance for nature conservation. A sixth major sinkhole, at the time of the Prussian land survey of 1901, was drained, temporarily converted to agricultural use, then fallen fallow and connected and barely noticeable as a sinkhole (field name Mastbruch). So far there has not been any damage caused by subsidence within the built-up areas, although the risk exists at all times.

Waters

Flowing waters

The municipal area drains in four streams: Barnstedter Bach, Heinsener Bach, Glindenbach and, to a lesser extent, in the neighboring district of Uelzen to the Eitzener Bach. Heinsener Bach and Glindenbach are left tributaries of the Barnstedter Bach. This as well as the Eitzener Bach are left tributaries of the Ilmenau , which is a left tributary of the Elbe .

Barnstedter Bach

Barnstedter Bach

→ Main article : Barnstedt-Melbecker Bach

The Barnstedt townscape is largely shaped by the Barnstedter Bach and the mill pond. The Barnstedter Bach is included in the map of the areas valuable for nature conservation in Lower Saxony from its entry into the alder quarry forests in the western neighboring municipality of Betzendorf to a little south of the municipality border Barnstedt / Melbeck, together with directly adjacent forest and swamp areas. It is located in the FFH area "Ilmenau with tributaries" and is part of the European Ecological Network Natura 2000 . The high level of protection was met by placing it under protection as a nature reserve on December 6, 2007. The NSG includes the lowlands of the Barnstedt-Melbeck brook with its tributaries from Betzendorf to Melbeck as well as adjacent valley edge areas.

The Barnstedter Bach rises at about 80 m height in the neighboring municipality of Betzendorf to the west and already in the Hohe Heide natural area. There is an annual average of 730 mm of precipitation, while in the natural area Luheheide, in which Barnstedt is located, it is only 630 mm. In addition, the Barnstedter Bach in the municipality of Betzendorf has a relatively large water catchment area, which is up to 115 m above sea level. NN is enough. These are the reasons for the constant and relatively even discharge of this stream.

With its tributaries, the Barnstedter Bach is characterized by a natural, partly slow, partly fast flowing, strongly to slightly meandering, mostly shaded creek with diverse structures. The stream then flows in a strongly straightened manner through pastures and meadows, with patchy shadows along the edge of a wooded area.

The peculiarity of the Barnstedter Bach is its low mountain stream character, which is due to its bed substrate rich in debris, its low average temperature, its very good water quality and, as a result, its special aquatic fauna (the protection ordinance aims to protect the brook lamprey , bullhead , river mussel , otters and others rare bird species).

In the water quality map 2000, the upper reaches of the Barnsteder Bach has quality class I-II, a seldom good rating, which is achieved through its course remote from settlement and traffic, through fallow areas or organically cultivated areas in the source areas and its kilometer-long course through natural alders - Quarry forests. Due to their complete shading of the stream, its low temperature is also due in summer, which in turn has a positive effect on the oxygen content of the water and the aquatic fauna.

In the past, the stream experienced its first stronger warming in the Barnstedter Mühlenteich, to which it was dammed. The largest renovation project for the Barnstedter Bach was completed here at the end of August 2006, using EU funds. The "Water and Landscape Management Association Middle and Upper Ilmenau" had taken over the project sponsorship as well as the implementation planning and construction management of the approximately 550,000 euro expensive measure. The aim was to restore the ecological continuity of the stream. With the generous delimitation of the waterfront properties, an intensive natural alder overgrowth has arisen in the water change area with the abundance of seeds from the quarry forests above, which can now develop freely and in just another two to three years will provide complete shading of the brook up to the Kolkhagen district being able to lead.

However, there is also criticism of the effects of the measure, which inevitably had to lead to a lowering of the river bed in the section of the stream above the Barnstedter Mühlenteich. In the process, the course of the brook was channeled and the original brook bed and the Ossenbruch, which the brook once meandered through before it flowed into the mill pond, were drained. The water supply to the mill pond was reduced to a minimum; because the brook no longer flows through the pond . This led to the pond beginning to acidify. As a countermeasure, the old alders around the bank of the pond were removed (although alder leaves are not considered to be responsible for the acidification of waters). The original idyll has been destroyed for the time being. The stream and the mill pond will need a few more years to recover from this intervention or to find a new balance.

Glindenbach

The Glindenbach, which with its adjoining relatively natural forests is also part of the “Barnstedt-Melbecker Bach” NSG, is of a fundamentally different nature than the Barnstedter Bach. It rises at about 40 m above sea level. NN in the natural area Luheheide and has a relatively small catchment area, the highest point of which is the Osterberg in the Kolkhagen district at 66.8 m above sea level. NN is. This means that the Glindenbach has poorer conditions in terms of discharge and the steadiness of the discharge than the Barnstedter Bach. Of course, additional groundwater abstraction could also have resulted in the Glindenbach falling completely dry in its middle course from (at least) April 1997 to 2001, i.e. also during the winter months. It was not until March 2002 that it was continuously running again and this condition lasted until May 2003 (maybe longer?). In autumn 2009, however, the lower reaches were completely dried up (a comparative observation of the middle reaches was no longer possible due to the prohibition of entry associated with the protection ordinance).

Heinsener Bach

The Heinsener Bach (not an FFH area) rises at about 50 m above sea level. NN in the northern neighboring municipality of Embsen , but like the Barnstedter Bach has a quite large water catchment area in the municipality of Betzendorf , which extends up to 117 m above sea level. NN extends into the natural area Hohe Heide.

Former brook from Süsing

A fourth brook, which in the 1960s still flowed as a right tributary to the Barnstedter Bach from Süsing, has dried up completely.

Still waters

Natural still waters in the municipality of Barnstedt are the three sinkholes already mentioned in the geology section, which are located in the groundwater: the Heinser Meerauge, the pond in Grewoh and the most recent sinkhole on the eastern edge of the Barnstedter Bach as well as the two not constantly water-bearing sinkholes south of Kolkhagen and south Barnstedt.

The Heinser Meerauge was classified as valuable for nature conservation in 1988 with the biotope types nutrient-rich still waters and low moor / swamp. Marsh calla (Calla palustris) and fever clover (Menyanthes trifoliata) have been identified as species on the Red List . In the past 20 years, the condition of the water has improved noticeably due to the complete elimination of the hitherto somewhat intensive recreational traffic as an eutrophication factor. This is expressed in the multiplication of the marsh calla population and the spread of the beak sedge (Carex rostrata), which is more characteristic of mesotrophic to oligotrophic conditions .

The pond in Grewoh was subsequently included in the map of the areas in Lower Saxony that are valuable for nature conservation in 1990 with the biotope types nutrient-rich still water, low moor / swamp and birch break forest; The white water lily (Nymphaea alba) was listed as an endangered species, but has only been on the so-called “warning list” since 2004.

The sinkhole on Triftweg south of Kolkhagen is also classified as worthy of protection according to state-wide criteria with the biotope types nutrient-rich standing water, low moor / swamp and wet bushes; here the thread sedge (Carex lasiocarpa) was identified as an endangered species .

In addition to these natural still waters, there are also a number of ponds which, due to their artificiality and their current or former use, could not develop into valuable habitats. However, the level of knowledge is based on random observations - there is no more up-to-date systematic inventory.

Groundwater

The groundwater , which is hidden underground in the sense of the term, only emerges in springs or earth outcrops and then becomes surface water. There are spring outlets in large numbers in the alder forests, especially above Barnstedts. There they mark the height of the groundwater level at the relevant point.

The groundwater levels in the municipality of Barnstedt are between 22 m above sea level. NN at its deepest point in the north of the municipality and about 80 m above sea level. NN, documented by two seepage springs in Süsing , one of which still fed a stream in the 1960s that flowed into the Barnstedter Bach (see above → flowing water ). This spring area, which used to be rich in peat moss, is now so trampled through by the encroachment and concentration of game that only a mud surface reminds of what was once a poetic place.

Vegetation and flora

Potentially natural vegetation

According to the map of the potentially natural vegetation cover of Lower Saxony (commented by Ernst Preising), the municipality of Barnstedt lies in the transition area from the pedunculate oak-birch forest area of ​​the low quartz sand soils to the beech-sessile oak forest area of ​​the loam and float sand soils. The small scale of the map - 1: 500,000 - does not allow statements to be made about the forests of the groundwater-influenced lowlands.

In any case, it becomes clear that without human intervention, the entire municipal area - with the exception of the water bodies, which are insignificant in terms of area - would be covered by forests and that the forests would be composed of the main tree species oak , beech , birch , hornbeam , black alder , ash and bird cherry. And only those wood stands that are mainly composed of these tree species can be referred to as forests in a vegetation-scientific sense, everything else is forests or, if they are smaller, field trees . Incidentally, pine in the oak-birch forests would naturally also be added to our area, which can be proven by pollen analysis and soil finds. To distinguish forests from forests, Hartmut Dierschke uses not only the tree species but also, above all, the ground vegetation, which is in full harmony with the natural site conditions or at least must be closely related to a natural composition of species.

Real vegetation

The comments on the real vegetation relate to the special features of nature and landscape in the municipality. The areas and area proportions to which the information relates are specified in the individual subsections. The remaining area, that is 97.25%, may be referred to as the north German average landscape and its vegetation should not be considered here.

Woods

Forests in the sense described above exist in the municipality only in the lowlands of the Barnstedter Bach, Heinsener Bach and Glindenbach, outside of the lowlands only to a limited extent in the gorges (ice-age formed, narrow dry valleys) and on the steep slopes of the Süsing (due to the use, however, only to a large extent small areas close to nature), in the Albertinengehege east of the manor in Barnstedt and on a part of the Dewelsheide.

These forest areas together cover around 47  hectares , which is a share of near-natural forests of 2.38% for 19.71 km² of municipal area.

The forests of the lowlands are alder and ash forests in the floodplains and spring areas, birch and pine forests (only in the Glindenbachtal) and on the slightly higher valley edges above Barnstedt and on the Glindenbach transitions to the mesophilic oak and hornbeam mixed forest (Biotope types according to O. v. Drachenfels).

The alder and ash forests of the floodplains and spring areas take up the largest proportion of the area.

All these forest types occur in six forest areas: one above Barnstedts, one in Grewoh, two in the valley of the Barnstedter Bach east and northeast of Kolkhagen, and one each in the Glindenbach valley and one in the valley of the Heinsener Bach.

The Albertinengehege, the only forest outside of the areas that are more strongly influenced by groundwater, is a mixed deciduous forest on predominantly fresh, only small areas that are moist to wet, shallow, undulating, loamy-sandy locations. Perlgrass beech forest is predominant with age-heterogeneous, partly very old trees (beeches up to about 90 cm in diameter at chest height). It is a tiered stand, partly with a shrub layer of young beeches, the herb layer is predominantly of medium coverage. In the north-east there is a very small transition to a moist oak-hornbeam forest and in wet source areas, species-rich bird cherry-alder-ash forest. There are also fragments of Milzkraut-Alder-Ash spring forest, in the east a small, less than a meter wide, partly meandering spring stream. In the peripheral areas, the forest is pronounced as a soil acidic beech forest with wiry Schmiele, at one point also as a soil acidic oak forest with bracken.

The Albertinengehege deserves special attention in two respects: on the one hand, it is a mesophilic beech forest that is above average for lowland conditions; on the other hand, it is the only forest in the Barnstedt community that can give an impression of how the community area naturally covers almost the entire area would look like.

Finally, a small-scale pine forest in the Dewelsheide deserves special attention, which, in contrast to the widespread pine forests, is characterized by old, gnarled, widely spaced and deeply haunted pines, which can already be addressed as rustic tree shapes. This forest is important as a document of the landscape history of Barnstedt: 100 years ago most of today's pine forests, with the exception of the edge areas of the Süsing , which were afforested earlier, were extensive heather areas. Not a single one of them is left in the municipality, all of them have been reforested with coniferous wood, with the exception of this pine forest, which was created by natural pine approach and then naturally evolved to its current state. The occurrence of the sage gamander (Teucrium scorodonia) in the herb layer, a type of oak and pine forests and the heather (Erich Oberdorfer) is evidence of the history and the closeness to nature of this forest.

There are also fragments of this type of forest in the pine forests between the Kolkhagen cemetery and the Galgenberg, but too small to be called a forest. However, the juniper (Juniperus communis) can still be found there in some specimens as a remnant from the time of the heather economy. It is considered to be endangered nationwide and is also specifically endangered by shading on the one hand and the use of machines in forestry on the other.

Sedge, rush and perennial swamp

This type of biotope occurs without human intervention only in the edge areas of still waters (see section Still waters). Away from the bodies of water, where the forest represents the highest level of development of the vegetation, sedges and rushes or perennial swamps are usage-related and occur in the municipal area where use has been abandoned or with such low intensity that the areas are not used as wet grassland can be addressed.

Three such areas are shown on the map of the areas that are valuable for nature conservation in Lower Saxony within the municipal area and described in the text section: in the lowland of the Barnstedter Bach west of the Galgenberg on 1.5  hectares of sedges, rushes and ledges, east of the Barnstedter mill pond on around 2 hectares of Sumpfseggenried, reed-reed, Waldsimsen-Ried, small areas also Schlankseggenried. Finally, to the southwest of the Albertine enclosure, there is a small swamp with predominance of flutter rush and transitions to forest rush reed. The areas mentioned take up a total of around 4 hectares and thus 0.2% of the municipal area.

Mesophilic grassland, wetland and wet grassland

Grassland that differs from the fertilized and / or drained average state in terms of its species composition or characteristics has become rare, especially due to the fact that free-range cattle farming has declined sharply in recent decades, many areas fall fallow and then develop floristically away from the grassland (see section sedge, rush and perennial swamp).

Mesophilic grassland as well as wet and wet grassland were only found on a less than 0.8 hectare sub-area of ​​an extensive pasture with the field name Große Hof when recording the areas in Lower Saxony that are valuable for nature conservation. Today, however, there is another 1.7 hectare pasture area to the west of the former clay quarry for the Barnstedt brickworks, which could be described as mesophilic grassland. Both areas make up about 0.13% of the municipal area.

Flora of the areas valuable for nature conservation

This flora for parts of the municipality is necessarily incomplete, because the areas that are valuable for nature conservation have only a very small proportion of the area and they are not systematically mapped, but mostly walked once, only rarely several times, and the species that are recognizable at the corresponding time of the year have been recorded. The information is based on this mapping from 1988 and 1990. The names and the degrees of endangerment of the ferns and flowering plants correspond to the list of Garve, E., those of the mosses to the list of Monika Koperski:

Botanical species name	German species name	Degree of danger
Achillea millefolium	Common yarrow
Aegopodium podagraria	Giersch
Agrostis canina	Dog ostrich grass
Agrostis capillaris	Red ostrich grass
Agrostis stolonifera	White ostrich grass
Ajuga reptans	Creeping Gunsel
Alnus glutinosa	Black alder
Alopecurus geniculatus	Kinky foxtail grass
Anemone nemorosa	Wood anemone
Angelica Sylvestris	Forest angelica
Athyrium filix-femina	Forest Lady Fern
Berberis vulgaris	Common barberry	Endangered
Berula erecta	Narrow-leaved Merk
Betula pendula	Silver birch
Betula pubescens	Bog birch
Bidens cernua	Nodding two-tooth
Bidens tripartita	Three-part two-tooth
Brachypodium sylvaticum	Wald-Zwenke
Calla palustris	Dragon root	Endangered
Caltha palustris	Marsh marigold	Endangered
Cardamine amara	Bitter foam herb
Cardamine pratensis	Meadow foam herb
Carex acuta	Slender sedge
Carex acutiformis	Marsh sedge
Carex canescens	Gray sedge
Carex echinata	Hedgehog sedge	Warning list
Carex elongata	Roller sedge	Endangered
Carex lasiocarpa	Thread sedge	Endangered
Carex nigra	Brown sedge
Carex ovalis	Harespaw Sedge
Carex paniculata	Panicle sedge
Carex pseudocyperus	Pygmy sedge
Carex remota	Angle sedge
Carex rostrata	Beak sedge
Carex sylvatica	Forest sedge
Carpinus betulus	Hornbeam
Cerastium holosteoides	Common hornwort
Chrysosplenium alternifolium	Alternate leaved milkweed	Warning list
Chrysosplenium oppositifolium	Opposite milkweed	Warning list
Circaea alpina	Alpine witch herb	Endangered lowland region
Circaea lutetiana	Great witchweed
Cirsium oleraceum	Cabbage thistle
Cirsium palustre	Marsh thistle
Corylus avellana	Common hazel
Crataegus laevigata	Double fluted hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna	Common hawthorn
Crepis paludosa	Marsh Pippau
Cytisus scoparius	Broom
Deschampsia cespitosa	Lawn Schmiele
Deschampsia flexuosa	Wire Schmiele
Dryopteris carthusiana	Common thorn fern
Eleocharis palustris	Ordinary rush
Elodea canadensis	Canadian waterweed
Epilobium spec.	Willowherb
Equisetum arvense	Field horsetail
Equisetum fluviatile	Pond horsetail
Equisetum palustre	Marsh horsetail
Eriophorum angustifolium	Narrow-leaved cotton grass	Warning list
Euonymus europaea	Common spindle bush
Eupatorium cannabinum	Ordinary water stew
Fagus sylvatica	European beech
Festuca gigantea	Giant fescue
Filipendula ulmaria	Real meadowsweet
Frangula alnus	Buckthorn
Fraxinus excelsior	Common ash
Galeopsis bifida	Two-column hollow tooth
Galeopsis tetrahit	Common hollow tooth
Galium odoratum	Woodruff
Galium palustre	Marsh bedstraw
Geranium robertianum	Ruprecht's herb
Geum rival	Brook avens	Endangered
Geum urbanum	Real clove root
Glechoma hederacea	Gundermann
Glyceria fluitans	Flooding plumes
Glyceria maxima	Water plumes
Hedera helix	Common ivy
Holcus lanatus	Woolly honeygrass
Humulus lupulus	Real hops
Hydrocotyle vulgaris	Common pennywort
Hypericum tetrapterum	Winged St. John's Wort
Hypochaeris radicata	Common piglet weed
Ilex aquifolium	European holly
Impatiens noli-tangere	Great balsam
Iris pseudacorus	Common iris
Juncus acutiflorus	Pointed rush
Juncus effusus	Flutter rush
Lamium galeobdolon	Common golden nettle
Lemna minor	Small duckweed
Lonicera periclymenum	Forest honeysuckle
Lotus pedunculatus	Marsh horn clover
Lycopodium annotinum	Sprouting Bärlapp	Endangered
Lycopus europaeus	Ufer-Wolfstrapp
Lysimachia nemorum	Grove loosestrife	Warning list
Lysimachia nummularia	Pennywort
Lysimachia vulgaris	Common loosestrife
Maianthemum bifolium	Two-leaved shade flower
Melica uniflora	Single-flowered pearl grass
Melica nutans	Nodding pearl grass	Endangered lowland region
Mentha aquatica	Water mint
Menyanthes trifoliata	Fever clover	Endangered
Mercurialis perennis	Forest ringelkraut	Warning list
Milium effusum	Forest flutter grass
Molinia caerulea	Blue pipe grass
Myosotis scorpioides	Swamp forget-me-nots
Nymphaea alba	White water lily	Warning list
Osmunda regalis	Royal fern	Endangered
Oxalis acetosella	Wood sorrel
Paris quadrifolia	One berry	Endangered lowland region
Persicaria hydropiper	Water pepper
Peucedanum palustre	Swamp hair strand
Phalaris arundinacea	Reed grass
Phegopteris connectilis	Beech fern	Endangered lowland region
Phragmites australis	reed
Pinus sylvestris	Scots pine
Plantago lanceolata	Ribwort plantain
Poa trivialis	Common bluegrass
Polygonatum multiflorum	Multi-flowered Weisswurz
Polytrichum commune	Golden maidenhair moss
Populus tremula	aspen
Potamogeton natans	Floating pondweed
Potentilla anserina	Fingerwort
Potentilla erecta	Tormentil
Potentilla palustris	Swamp Blood Eye	Warning list
Prunella vulgaris	Little Braunelle
Prunus padus	Common bird cherry
Prunus spinosa	Blackthorn
Pteridium aquilinum	bracken
Quercus robur	English oak
Ranunculus ficaria	Celandine
Ranunculus repens	Creeping buttercup
Ribes nigrum	Blackcurrant
Ribes rubrum	Red currant
Rubus fruticosus agg.	Species group real blackberry
Rubus idaeus	raspberry
Rumex acetosa	Meadow Sorrel
Rumex acetosella	Little sorrel
Salix aurita	Ear willow
Salix caprea	Sal willow
Salix cinerea	Ash willow
Scirpus sylvaticus	Forest ledges
Scutellaria galericulata	Marsh skullcap
Silene flos-cuculi	Cuckoo carnation
Solanum dulcamara	Bittersweet nightshade
Sorbus aucuparia	Rowanberry
Sparganium erectum	Branched hedgehog cob
Sphagnum spec.	Peat moss
Stachys sylvatica	Forest Ziest
Stellaria alsine	Bach chickweed
Stellaria graminea	Grass chickweed
Stellaria holostea	Great chickweed
Stellaria nemorum	Hain chickweed
Thelypteris palustris	Marsh fern	Endangered
Trifolium dubium	Thread clover
Trifolium repens	White clover
Typha latifolia	Broad-leaved cattail
Urtica dioica	Big nettle
Valeriana dioica	Small valerian	Endangered lowland region
Valeriana officinalis	Real valerian
Veronica beccabunga	Bachbunge
Viburnum opulus	Ordinary snowball
Viola palustris	Marsh violets	Warning list
Viola riviniana	Grove violets

A chance observation was made for an endangered species of fungus in 2009: the glossy lacquer (Ganoderma lucidum, RL 3 according to Knut Wöldecke) occurs on a mighty old oak in the “Adersahl” south of Barnstedt . In 2011 the rare water feather (Hottonia palustris) was found in the forest village of Breetzkamp in a partially water-filled, probably periodically dry terrain depression.

Recreation space of the people

The municipal area is well suited for human recreation. Corresponding investments were made such as B. for part of the national cycle route Hanover / Lüneburg.

There are also some popular footpaths: the Holtorfer Mühlenweg from Barnstedter Mühlenteich towards Holtorf, a footpath connection past the sinkhole in Grewoh over the Barnstedter Bach to the Albertinengehege, a path through the pine forest in the Dewelsheide and some paths to the Galgenberg.

The post-war reforestation with pine was probably often postponed or not done so that areas remained untouched for a long time and were able to develop closer to nature. A subsequent intensification of use has noticeable consequences for nature and the landscape and for those seeking relaxation through a. Summer thinning, use of large machines as well as destroyed paths and roadside vegetation.

In 2007 the municipality was included in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park .

literature

• Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: Emmerich Otto August von Estorff (1722–1796), General Inspector of the Hanoverian Cavalry. In: Archives for family history research. Issue 4/2009, pp. 7-10; Home calendar Uelzen 2010. pp. 35–38.

Web links

Commons : Barnstedt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of the community of Ilmenau
• Homepage about the Kolkhagen district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ The Barnstedt School Chronicle. P. 1, ed. from the joint community of Ilmenau.
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 234 .
4. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 kB).
5. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 kB).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials: Geological overview map 1: 200,000, sheet CC 3126 Hamburg-Ost, Hanover 1977.
7. ^ ^{A b} Klaus-Dieter Meyer: Geological natural monuments in the district of Lüneburg. In: Yearbook of the Natural Science Association for the Principality of Lüneburg e. V. von 1851. Volume 36, 1986, p. 183 f.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Lower. State administration office - specialist authority for nature conservation (ed.): Map of the areas in Lower Saxony that are valuable for nature conservation, sheets L 2926 Amelinghausen and L 2928 Bad Bevensen, editor: A. u. B. Hoffmann, Hanover 1989.
9. ^ Ordinance on the “Barnstedt-Melbecker Bach” nature reserve of December 6, 2007, Nds. MBl. No. 50/2007, pdf .
10. ^ Walter Kremser and Hans-Jürgen Otto: Basics for long-term, regional silvicultural planning in the Lower Saxony state forests. In: From the forest. 1973, issue 20, messages from the Lower Saxony state forest administration.
11. ↑ Water quality map 2000 of the state of Lower Saxony, published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, Norden 2000.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Oberdorfer: Plant-sociological excursion flora. 5th edition, Stuttgart 1983.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Lower. State Administration Office, Specialized Authority for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Map of the areas valuable for nature conservation in Lower Saxony, sheet L 2928 Bad Bevensen, edit .: Olaf v. Drachenfels, Hanover 1990.
14. ^ ^{A b c} E. Garve: Red list and flora list of fern and flowering plants in Lower Saxony and Bremen. 5th version, as of March 1, 2004 in: Inform. D. Naturschutz Nieders., Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1–76, Hildesheim 2004.
15. ^ Ernst Preising: Map of the potentially natural plant cover in Lower Saxony. In: Selected basics and examples for nature conservation and landscape management - four maps of the nature and landscape of Lower Saxony ; Nature conservation and landscape management in Lower Saxony, special series A, issue 1, Hanover 1978.
16. ↑ Hartmut Dierschke: Degree of naturalness of forests and forests. NNA reports 2/3, Schneverdingen 1989.
17. ↑ O. v. Drachenfels (edit.): Mapping key for biotope types in Lower Saxony with special consideration of the biotopes protected according to § 28a and § 28b NNatG, as of September 1994. In: Naturschutz Landschaftspfl. Lower. Issue A / 4, Hanover 1994.
18. ↑ Monika Koperski: Florenliste and Red List of Mosses in Lower Saxony and Bremen, 2nd version of January 1, 1999. In: Inform. D. Lower Saxony nature conservation. 19th year, No. 1, Hildesheim 1999.
19. ↑ Knut Wöldecke: Red List of Threatened in Lower Saxony and Bremen large mushrooms. In: Inform. D. Lower Saxony nature conservation. 15. Vol. No. 4, pp. 101-132, Hannover 1995.
20. ↑ www.naturpark-lueneburger-heide.de .