Barrel pillar

Barrel pillar IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
The barrel pillar in winter - used for sport
location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	40,524 ha
WDPA ID	344613
Geographical location	52 ° 1 ′  N , 8 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 10 ″  E
Setup date	July 19, 1937
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Gütersloh district

The Barrelpäule is a nature reserve with a size of 40.524 hectares in Halle (Westphalia) . It is the rest of the former Barrelheide . The area is managed with the number GT-018, 6 hectares are also FFH area . It was designated on July 19, 1937, making it one of the oldest nature reserves in the Gütersloh district .

It was designated in particular for the preservation of a rare heather remnant with heather ponds , for the protection of numerous highly endangered animal and plant species and for the maintenance and care of the waters as a habitat for amphibians and dragonflies.

The endangered species that are native here include:

• Flooding celery
• Ordinary hedgehog hose
• Scaly yellow sedge
• Common yellow sedge
• Rush edge
• Bristle Schmiele
• Multi-stemmed swamp rush
• Alpine bulrush
• European Strandling
• Alternating milfoil
• Common pill fern
• Grass-leaved pondweed
• Hair-leaved water crowfoot
• Salzbunge

The area emerged from a dune-like swell and is located in a grassland-arable complex. It contains several heather ponds surrounded by mixed pine forest . Depending on the elevation on the one hand and the precipitation and temperature conditions on the other, the areas fall dry or are flooded. In the Westphalian Bight , the barrel pillar is one of the most valuable occurrences of this habitat.

Despite the designation as a nature reserve, heather ponds are occasionally used for ice skating when the water surface is frozen.

literature

• Heinz Lienenbecker: Vegetation studies in the NSG "Barrelpäule" / Gütersloh district . 1998.
• Richard Rehm: The plant-sociological conditions of the NSG Barrelpäule. In: Reports of the natural sciences

Bielefeld Association 15 (1959), pages 191-218.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natura 2000 DE-3915-302
2. ↑ NRW environmental data on site - barrel pillar

Web links

• NRW environmental data on site - barrel pillar