Bellinghover Sea

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Bellinghover Sea
Data
Water code DE : 27942
location In North Rhine-Westphalia
River system Rhine
Drain over Hagener Meer  → Haffensche Landwehr  → Rhine
origin fed from the Lange Renne
51 ° 44 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 56 ″  E
Source height 16.4  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in the Hagener Meer Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 25 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 22"  E 51 ° 44 ′ 25 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 22"  E
Mouth height 15.7  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 0.7 m
Bottom slope 0.78 ‰
length 900 m

The Bellinghover Meer has been a nature reserve since 2010 in the area of ​​the town of Hamminkeln in the Mehrhoog district and the town of Rees in the Mehr district . The Altrheinarm forms the border between the Wesel and Kleve districts .

geography

The Bellinghover Meer is located on the lower right-hand side of the Lower Rhine at the edge of the lower Rhine terrace. It is fed by the Lange Renne and flows into the Hagener Meer, which flows into the Rhine via the Haffensche Landwehr .

history

The Bellinghover Meer and the Haagener Meer are remnants of the Sonsfeld loop, a meander of the Rhine. It originated in the late Mesolithic or early Neolithic . From the 10th to the 13th century, the Rhine left its old bed and flowed over the Visseler Schlinge from the Bronze Age and the Lange Renne into the Bellinghover Sea. The drainage via the Haffensche Landwehr has been proven by a document from Deichschau Rees since 1580.

Bellinghover Meer nature reserve

The Bellinghover Meer is a legally protected biotope and is under nature protection . It belongs to the international wetland Lower Lower Rhine according to the Ramsar Convention and is registered as an FFH area.

fauna

In addition to carp , tench , pike and perch , the Bellinghover Sea is home to numerous white fish species. They form the food source for great crested grebes, comorans, gray herons and kingfisher. Crayfish and many different types of river mussels are evidence of the high quality of the water.

flora

The Bellinghover Meer has a narrow reed border. There are floating leaf zones in the northern area and in the southern shallow water area.

Sights and buildings

The Bellingover Sea leads past the eponymous architectural monument, Castle Bellinghoven from the 14th century.

literature

  • Josef Klostermann: Shifts in the Rhine stream at Xanten over the past 10,000 years. In: Natur am Niederrhein 1, 1986, Niederrhein-Verlag KH Hilbertz, Krefeld 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Wißen: Living fences. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund e. V .: Home care in Westphalia . 20th year - 5/2007, ISSN  0933-6346 , p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b c d e nature reserve "Hagener Meer, Bellinghover Meer, Lange Renne" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 9, 2017.