Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün

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Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün
Mountain meadows south of Schönheide in autumn

Mountain meadows south of Schönheide in autumn

location Saxony , Germany
Natura 2000 ID 5441-303
FFH area 134 ha
Geographical location 50 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '13 "  N , 12 ° 31' 25"  E
Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün (Saxony)
Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün
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The mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün are a Natura 2000 area in the municipalities of Schönheide and Stützengrün in the west of the Ore Mountains , according to Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) ("FFH Directive" for short). that serves to maintain several habitat types according to the directive and species.

location

According to the definition of the Habitats Directive, the area belongs to the continental biogeographical region . According to the natural map of Saxony, it lies in the mesogeochore "Schönheider plateau" and belongs to the microgeochore "Schönheider Kuppengebiet". This also applies to the Stützengrüner sub-areas.

The Natura 2000 area "Upper Zwickau Muldetal" is located to the south in Schönheide.

description

According to the description of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , the area is a complex of grassland areas with fresh, wet and mountain meadows as well as small-scale mixed beech forest, bog forest and intermediate moor . Ten habitat types (LRT) from the FFH regulations of the European Union are named by the Federal Office, including mountain mowing meadows (LRT 6520) with 49.56 hectares, montane spruce forests (LRT 9410) with 17.74 hectares, flatland hay meadows (LRT 6510 ) with 3.91 hectares, but also silicate rocks with crevice vegetation (LRT 8220), silicate rocks with pioneer lawn (LRT 8230) and dry heaths (LRT 4030). For the mountain meadows Gold Haferwiese and Bärwurz - red fescue -Wiese characteristic. The latter is the most common plant community in the Saxon low mountain ranges.

Species-rich nebulas (LRT 6230) with 0.63 hectares and birch bog forests (LRT 91D1) with 0.36 hectares are priority habitats. In the former habitat type, there are highly endangered plant species such as real arnica (Arnica montana) , spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata) and wood lice (Pedicularis sylvatica). The presence of these species predominantly or exclusively in the mountainous region in Saxony means that this type of habitat is of national importance. According to the species composition and extent of the area, the mountain hay meadows are assessed as regionally important, and because of the site conditions and the peat moss-rich spruce forests, the montane spruce forests are of high quality and nationally significant.

The state of Saxony describes the data for this FFH area on the website Umwelt.Sachsen.de. Basic Protection Ordinance with annex, complete area data, the standard data sheet, reading instructions for the standard data sheet and a short version of the management plan can be downloaded.

Of a total of 135.5 hectares, the Schönheider share with 93.2 hectares makes up 69%, the Stützengrüner area share is 31%.

The area consists of seven sub-areas 1 "Heinzwinkel", 2 "Stützengrün Süd", 3 "Baumannsberg - Knock", 4 "Stützengrün - Hübel", 5 "Westlicher Stollmühlengrund", 6 "Keilberg" and 7 "Schädlichsberg", of which the Areas 1, 3, 6 and 7 belong to Schönheide.

Part of the area is taken up by the Moore nature reserve south of Schönheide , which was designated in 2013 . To the south of this area are forests with the mountains Großer and Keiner Keilberg and Hammerkogel towards the Zwickauer Mulde . The partial area sloping down towards the Tannenbach in the Schönheid district of Heinzwinkel is designated as a natural monument.

In Stützengrün a part of the area is grazed by a herd of suckler cows of Scottish highland cattle. In Schönheide, a herd of suckler cows is kept in parts of the area, other parts are used to grow fodder plants.

Protected position

The area was placed under protection by ordinance of the Chemnitz Regional Directorate of January 31, 2011. The annex to the ordinance describes the protective purpose

1. Preservation of valuable grassland areas with species-rich mountain meadows and grasslands, but also fresh and wet meadows as well as transitions to intermediate moors and moor forests and an adjacent small-scale mixed beech forest.
2. Preservation or restoration of a favorable conservation status of the natural habitats of community interest occurring in the area in accordance with Annex I of the Habitats Directive, including the species endowment characteristic of a favorable conservation status as well as the spatially and functionally linked, regionally typical habitats that are necessary for the conservation of ecological functionality of the habitats of Annex I of the Habitats Directive are important.

Development

A mountain meadow adventure trail, mountain meadow festivals, hikes and excursions in Stützengrün are supervised by the Westerzgebirge Landscape Management Association. The forest road “Hammergockel” leads from the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde to the southern tip of sub-area 6 “Keilberg”. It is not to be confused with the “ Hammerkogel ” mountain .

literature

  • Management plan for the FFH area 5441-303 - State registration number 286 "Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün" , Office for Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning Uwe Fischer, Schwarzenberg 2012
  • State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (Ed.): Summary Management Plan 286 "Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün" , 13 pages ( link to the digitized version )

See also

Web links

Commons : Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the standard data sheet for the Natura 2000 Viewer name 134 hectares, the map of the EU (Habitat Directive Sites) 134.33 hectares, the management plan adds the sub-areas named there to 135.5 hectares.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profiles of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  2. ↑ Map of the individual areas at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Maps cannot be clicked directly: Click on the gear wheel next to the search field, then click on FFH areas and enter the mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün , accessed on August 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Research map of the LfZ Link to the research map
  4. ↑ Standard data sheet for the Natura 2000 Viewer
  5. ↑ State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology (Ed.): Biotope Types. Red List of Saxony , Dresden 2010, p. 87
  6. ↑ a b Annex to the regulation of the Chemnitz regional directorate from January 31, 2011 regulation at Sachsen.de
  7. ↑ Link to Umwelt.Sachsen.de with the descriptions of this FFH area
  8. ^ Office for Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning Uwe Fischer: Management plan for the FFH area 5441-303 - State registration number 286 "Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün" , Schwarzenberg 2012, p. 11
  9. ↑ Overview map on a scale of 1: 25,000 from the map service of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  10. ↑ Map at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . If you click on FFH areas in the right box, the FFH areas are also shown in yellow.
  11. ↑ Description from the Westerzgebirge landscape care association
  12. ^ Ordinance at Sachsen.de
  13. ↑ Description at LPV Westerzgebirge
  14. ↑ Description of the mountain meadow adventure trail
  15. ↑ Description of the mountain meadows theme trail near Stützengrün