Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer

Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Nature reserve Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer (May 2018)
location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	6.4 km²
WDPA ID	7109
Geographical location	51 ° 48 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '42 "  N , 6 ° 23' 44"  E
Setup date	1968

The nature reserve Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer is located in the area of ​​the cities Emmerich am Rhein and Rees in the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The area extends west and east of bees . The A3 and the state border with the Netherlands run north, the Rhine flows west and south.

The nature reserve has existed in its current form since 1996 and has a size of almost 640 hectares. It is part of the Lower Lower Rhine bird sanctuary . The first designation of a sub-area (Bienener Altrhein) for nature protection took place in 1968. It is one of the last Altrhein systems of the Lower Rhine, whose waters are connected to the Rhine via the Dornicker lock, so that high and low water lead to a dynamic that is typical of floodplains. The nutrient-rich still waters are characterized by extensive floating leaf and reed areas, in the bank areas there is small-scale softwood alluvial forest.

In the nature reserve, the only black tern colony in northwest Germany breeds on artificial nesting aids. The black tern also disappeared from the Bienen Old Rhine in the early 1990s. With the help of a wildlife conservation project has managed this from extinction to settle endangered species again. Currently around 50 breeding pairs regularly breed on the Bienener Altrhein and Millinger Meer every year. The near-natural oxbow lakes are also an important breeding, resting, moulting and wintering area for other bird species, and rare fish species also use the oxbow lakes for their offspring.

meaning

For Emmerich am Rhein and Rees, a 650 hectare area has been designated as a nature reserve under the identification number KLE-014 since 1968 . The area was placed under protection for the preservation, development and restoration of communities and habitats of wild plants and animals of certain species as well as the culturally and historically significant grassland areas , hedges and pollarded willows .

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  Bienener Altrhein near Praest

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  Pollard willow in the meadow landscape

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  Bienener Altrhein near Grieterbusch

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  Millinger Sea

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  Millinger Sea

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Kleve district

Web links

Commons : Nature reserve Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve “Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• World Database on Protected Areas - Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer (English)
• Website of the nature conservation center in the Kleve district, including the nature reserve Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer
• Landscape plan of the Kleve district for Rees, 2010
• 4203-401 Lower Lower Rhine.  (EU bird sanctuary) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 24, 2019.