Besselberg vineyards

	Besselbergweinberge nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Besselbergweinberge nature reserve
location	Grünsfeld , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	37.3 ha
Identifier	1,264
WDPA ID	344577
Geographical location	49 ° 37 ' N , 9 ° 44' E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '41 " N , 9 ° 44' 6" E
Setup date	June 14, 2005
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart

Besselbergweinberge is a nature reserve in Grünsfeld in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

By ordinance of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve Besselbergweinberge of June 14, 2005, a protected area with 37.3 hectares was designated.

Protection purpose

“The purpose of protection is the preservation and development of the structural wealth that can be traced back to the small-scale, extensive agricultural use and the diverse, closely interlinked types of vegetation. The aim is to protect and promote the biodiversity of the flora and fauna in this mosaic of stone bars, semi-arid grassland, orchards, fields and more humid locations along the ditch by securing the habitats for the species bound to these habitats.

Are particularly worth protecting

the multitude of rare and threatened animal and plant species;
the semi-arid lawns and lean oat meadows with rich occurrences of the cross gentian and the cross gentian-ant-bluish tied to it;
the open, sunny stone frames and dry stone walls as extremely dry and hot habitats;
the warmth-loving fringes, the hedges and woods;
the arable sites with their rich wild herb flora, which are poor in yield due to extensive cultivation;
the orchards;
the near-natural sections of the stream in the Lochgraben.

From a cultural and historical point of view, the typical structures of this dry slope, as they were created through centuries of cultivation, are to be preserved. Vineyard walls, small stone cellars, large stone bars as well as the former community guards on the "Upper Schalksberg" are delightful witnesses of the forms of cultivation of earlier centuries.

The protection purpose is also the preservation and development of the habitats occurring in the area of the orchid-rich limestone grasslands (priority) and the lean flatland hay meadows according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive ( LUBW ).

Flora and fauna

It is an area with a large number of rare and threatened animal and plant species, especially habitats of the orchid-rich limestone grasslands (priority) and the poor, lowland hay meadows.

literature

Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region. Updated new edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 316-318 (Besselberg vineyards).

Web links

Commons : Besselbergweinberge nature reserve - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nature reserve Besselbergweinberge: profile of the nature reserve in the protected area directory of the LUBW

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 316-318 (Besselbergweinberge).
↑ ^a ^b ^c State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Besselberg vineyards . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.

[Literatur-1] Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 316-318 (Besselbergweinberge).

[LUBW-2] State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Besselberg vineyards . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.