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The Baumweg is a forest area in the Lower Saxony municipalities of Emstek in the district of Cloppenburg and Großenkneten in the district of Oldenburg . Parts of the forest are designated as nature reserves .

description

The forest is located northeast of Cloppenburg at historically ancient forest location in a ground moraine landscape in the west of Wildeshausen Geest . It is around 2,400  hectares in size.

Large parts of the forest were used as hunting grounds by the Prince-Bishop of Münster until the end of the 18th century . At the same time it served as pasture for the farmers of the surrounding farms, who also fetched construction and firewood from the forest as well as pest and leaf litter for the stables. By using it as pasture, a hut forest was created on over 100 hectares of the forest . At the beginning of the 19th century, the forest became state property in Oldenburg. Large parts of the Hutewald were cut down because the wood was unusable, and the areas were reforested with red beech , spruce and pine .

At the beginning of the 20th century, fish ponds were created in the heather and sand areas of the Sager Heide bordering the Lethetal and further areas were reforested around the ponds.

After the Second World War , the forest was used for firewood and for reparation cuts. The deforested areas were later replanted, as well as after the cyclone quimburga , the large forest areas on November 13, 1972 by windfall fell victim.

In the south the federal highway 213 crosses the forest area. A road (closed to private traffic) runs from the main road to the Ahlhorn fish ponds . Other roads open up the pond area from the west and the log house from the north.

The name of the forest comes from an old trade route that ran between Emstek and Oldenburg via Halen and Littel and crossed the forest north of Halen am Lethetal. The forest is managed by the Lower Saxony State Forests .

Flora and fauna

In the forest falter mainly stalk and sessile oak and hornbeam , beech, which was reinforced introduced after the Second World War through afforestation in the forest, spruce and Japanese larch , partly as mixed forests , partly as a needle forests , but also places great holly stocks.

The forest houses u. a. the mammals fallow deer (the species was introduced to the forest in the 1930s), roe deer , badger , rabbit , pine marten , polecat , ermine , squirrel and wood mouse . The avifauna is u. a. represented by hawk , buzzard , sparrowhawk , long-eared owl , tawny and little owl , carrion crow , jay , woodcock , black and great spotted woodpecker , various thrushes , chaffinch , robin , nuthatch , treecreeper , goat milker , various warbler , red crossbill and bullfinch . Old and dead wood stocks offer the stag beetle and numerous other totholzbewohnenden beetle species habitat. Furthermore, z. B. the red wood ant native. Fish ponds and Lethe are u. a. The habitat of various dragonflies , forests, and ponds are also home to various bats .

Protection status

There are two nature reserves in the Baumweg forest area: the 61 hectare " Baumweg " nature reserve in the south and the 437 hectare "Ahlhorner Fischteiche" nature reserve in the north and east of the forest. Both nature reserves are also designated as FFH areas. The FFH area "NSG Baumweg" is almost congruent with the nature reserve "Baumweg", while the FFH area "Sager Meer, Ahlhorner Fischteiche und Lethe" goes beyond the scope of the nature conservation ordinance (for example the building areas of the Ahlhorn pond farm, the forest education center and the log house excluded from the scope of the Nature Conservation Ordinance). To the north and east that includes the conservation area "Ahlhorner fish ponds, Sagerheide" on to the nature reserve "Ahlhorner fish ponds." Part of the "Baumweg" nature reserve forms the 37.5 hectare "Urwald Baumweg" natural forest reserve .

Recreation

The forest area and Ahlhorn fish ponds are also used for local recreation . Several hiking trails run through the areas . There are parking spaces on federal road 213 at the “Baumweg” nature reserve, by the Ahlhorn fish ponds and on the edge of the Hoheging forest area, which connects to the Baumweg to the west.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Primeval forest tree path , municipality of Emstek. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ At home in nature , Kreiszeitung , December 5, 2013. Accessed November 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d Hermann Hibbeler: Der Baumweg ( Memento from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Blockhausbrief No. 5, 1960.
  4. ^ A b Peter Meyer, Anne Wevell von Krüger, Roland Steffens, Wilhelm Unkrig: Naturwald Baumweg , Naturwaldreservate in brief portrait, Northwest German Forest Research Institute (PDF, 666 kB). Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Recreation in the northwest , Lower Saxony State Forests. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Ute Winsemann: "Toilet brushes" become furniture , Weser-Kurier , July 27, 2011. Accessed November 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ahlhorn fish ponds and jungle tree path , leaflet of the Lower Saxony State Forests (PDF, 642 kB). Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ Klaus Derke: The tour guides start the new season. To start with, it's off to the jungle on Baumweg , Nordwest-Zeitung , March 6, 2008. Accessed on November 9, 2018.
  9. ^ About us at the Ahlhorn Forestry Office , Lower Saxony State Forests. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  10. ↑ NSG Baumweg , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  11. ↑ Sager Meer, Ahlhorn fish ponds and Lethe , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  12. ↑ Profile of the Urwald Baumweg natural forest , database of natural forest reserves in Germany, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food . Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ Encounter with dragonflies, frogs and old trees - Ahlhorn fish ponds and primeval forest tree path , Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park Association. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  14. ↑ Nature experience Ahlhorn fish ponds and jungle tree path , leaflet (PDF, 1.2 MB). Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  15. ↑ Hiking map , Lower Saxony State Forests (PDF, 186 kB). Retrieved November 9, 2018.