Blank flat

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Blank flat

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Region Hannover Blankes Flat.JPG
location in the districts of Esperke and Vesbeck
surface 47.45 ha
Identifier NSG HA 003
WDPA ID 81412
Geographical location 52 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '53 "  N , 9 ° 37' 2"  E
Blankes Flat (Lower Saxony)
Blank flat
Sea level from 32.8 to 43.5
Setup date 03/09/1930
administration NLWKN
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The Blanke Flat is a nature reserve in the Esperke and Vesbeck districts of the city of Neustadt am Rübenberge ( Lower Saxony ).

description

The protected area has a size of approx. 47.45 hectares and contains a small heather pond , which probably emerged from a constricted arm of the Leine . The aim of a Heimatbund group is to protect and care for the area. She is supported by several associations and the Lions Club Neustadt am Rübenberge. The European Union (EU) has declared the Blanke Flat to be particularly worthy of protection for fauna, flora and habitats ( FFH ). The area is a worthwhile destination for nature lovers, there are hiking trails and a resting place near the moor lake.

landscape

There used to be a large water area in the area of ​​the nature reserve. In addition to the Blanken Flat, there was the Born Flat, the Black Flat and the Middle Flat. These depressions are now bogged down and overgrown. In the northern area a dike was built to the lower lying meadows, which indicated the abundance of water at that time.

Various forest formations from poorer locations are characteristic of the Blanke Flat. Here in particular mixed oak forests, birch and pine break forest, as well as whistle grass birch and pine moor forest are characteristic. There is also a near-natural, nutrient-poor small body of water in the area, which was subject to natural development. The existing valley edge dunes are characterized by dry sandy heather vegetation.

The landscape around the Blanke Flat is a heather area in the Geest landscape. The former forests have been cleared for centuries for shipbuilding, wood firing, and later for mining and salt works. But also fires and the consistent grazing by the Heidschnucke gave rise to this landscape. After the trees of the pine monocultures were felled, the heather grew again. Thus this area is a cultural landscape.

Heidschnucken used to look after the heather, in Warmeloh alone over 500 animals were kept. Earlier the bustards were still recognizable on the dune. Similar to the mountains, the Schnucken grazed the heather parallel to the dune. Keeping a herd of Texel sheep failed because the animals only plucked the leaves from the birches and bushes. Peat was also cut in the Blanken Flat, as can be seen in the peat hollows. The peat was dried and used as heating material.

Flora and fauna

When the Blanke Flat was placed under nature protection, cranberries, sundew, bell heather, poor grass, hail bush (Porst), sedges, water lilies, pipe grass, cotton grass, St. John's wort, marsh edge, multi-stemmed ledges, mud rush grew there . In the vicinity of the flat there is a larger area with gale bushes, which is signposted as a natural monument.

The moor frog can be found in the bank area. There are no fish because the water is too acidic. Water spiders and dragonflies live in the bog water, and yellow beetles in the water . Forest lizards live in greater numbers in the heather .

Wild animals such as roe deer, badgers, foxes, woodcock and ducks live in the Blanken Flat . At the beginning of the last century the area around the Flat was a fertile hunting ground for duck and snipe hunters.

Surname

The part of the name "blank" means shiny. Blank indicates the shimmering water level, as one experienced it from the dune in the past. In the dictionary of the Low German language there is the example "De Wischen wörn all heel blank", the meadows were covered with water so that they showed a mirror-like surface. The meaning of flat is unclear. The Fleet is the long hallway in the farmhouse in Lower Saxony. There is also talk of Flott auf der Milch. Likewise, the word Flat can be derived from Fleet, Flatschen, Fetzen, Flott or Fleck.

history

In 1930 the Blanke Flat was declared a nature reserve as a high moor between the glacial valleys of the Aller and Leine, for which the biologist Reinhold Tüxen had campaigned. This makes it one of the oldest nature reserves in Lower Saxony. In 1971 it came into the "public sector". The Blanke Flat was previously used by the residents of the area. There were cranberries collected and sold at the weekly market. The youth learned to swim in the moor lake and in winter to skate on the sheltered ice cover. Until the late 1960s, hikers used the dike as a bathing dune.

Holiday village project and Heimatbund

In the early 1970s, the preservation of the nature reserve was in jeopardy, as a holiday village with 400 residential units for 1500 people was planned 500 meters away. Then a resident from Esperke founded the "Heimatbundgruppe Esperke / Warmeloh, Untere Leine" with 25 members on the advice of the office of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony in 1971. The Hanover district government and the nature conservation authority also had objections to the construction of the holiday complex. In 1973 the greater Hanover area withdrew the planning because the district president saw the neighboring nature reserve "Blankes Flat" as endangered. The initiator also got into financial difficulties and abandoned the project. After that, the members of the Heimatbund saw their duty to maintain the nature reserve. Since then they have been doing annual work assignments. This is done with sheep and by peeling . The members of the Lions Club Neustadt have been helping with the care since 1990 .

reception

Maria Draheim, founder of the "Heimatbundgruppe Esperke / Warmeloh, Untere Leine", wrote the following poem about the Blanken Flat:

The lake still greets you with white roses, the moor adorns its edge, juniper stands on the edge of the forest, and heather covers the land.

literature

Web links and sources

Commons : Nature Reserve Blankes Flat  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Werner Fabich: 80 years of the Blankes Flat nature reserve . Ed .: Heimatbund Niedesachsen. 2010, p. 98–99 ( heimatbund-niedersachsen.de [PDF; accessed on May 10, 2018]).