Birkenberg (nature reserve)

Birkenberg nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Birkenberg nature reserve
location	Bad Mergentheim , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	26 ha
Identifier	1.107
WDPA ID	81404
Geographical location	49 ° 30 '  N , 9 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '21 "  N , 9 ° 44' 31"  E
Setup date	October 14, 1982
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart

Birkenberg is a nature reserve within the boundaries of the city of Bad Mergentheim and its Edelfingen district in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

By ordinance of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve Birkenberg of October 14, 1982 a reserve with 26 hectares was designated.

Protection purpose

"Protection purpose is the preservation of the valuable flora and fauna as well as the landscape" ( LUBW ) of the Birkenberg.

Flora and fauna

It is an east-exposed, shallow dry slope, partly without a humus layer. Different stages of succession alternate with forest areas. The dry grass areas are of the greatest importance.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Main-Tauber district
• List of landscape protection areas in the Main-Tauber district

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. 318-320 (Birkenberg).

Web links

Commons : Naturschutzgebiet Birkenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Birkenberg nature reserve: Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 318-320 (Birkenberg).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Birkenberg . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.