Blauensee (nature reserve)

"Blauensee" nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Waldburg , Ravensburg district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	29.7 ha
Identifier	4045
WDPA ID	81416
Geographical location	47 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '8 "  N , 9 ° 44' 3"  E
Sea level	from 679 m to 682 m
Setup date	20th February 1970
administration	Regional Council Tübingen

The Blauensee area is a nature reserve (NSG number 4.045) in the southeast of the Baden-Württemberg community of Waldburg in the district of Ravensburg in Germany, which was designated by ordinance of February 20, 1970 of the regional council of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

Location and description

The 30 hectare large nature reserve Blauensee is located at the junction of natural areas Upper Swabian hills and Westallgäuer hills . It is about 1.5 kilometers southeast of the center of Waldburg at an altitude of around 663  m above sea level. NN and essentially comprises a silted-up lake, which is in the flat moor stage, has already reached the intermediate moor stage in places , and flora that is rich in terms of the diversity of the landscape . The southwestern part of the reserve borders on the Scheibensee nature reserve .

The entire area is drained through the Edensbach and over the Haslach into the Untere Argen .

Flora and fauna

flora

Meadow Sorrel

Swamp Blood Eye

Common loosestrife

Flour primrose

Long-leaved sundew

Cypress Spurge

From the flora worthy of protection, the following plant species (selection) are to be named:

• Bear moss plants
  • (Common) marsh moss or moorland moss ( Lycopodiella inundata )
• Rushes
  • Flutter rush ( Juncus effusus )
• Birch plants
  • Silver birch ( Betula pendula )
  • Downy birch ( Betula pubescens ), also hair , broom or Hairy Birch called
• Rush plants
  • Flower rush or bladder rush ( Scheuchzeria palustris )
• Nettle family
  • Great nettle ( Urtica dioica )
• Umbelliferae
  • Medicinal angelica or real angelica ( Angelica archangelica )
  • Ground elder ( Aegopodium podagraria ), the only species of the genus Aegopodium found in Europe
  • Swamp hair strand or oil senich ( Peucedanum palustre )
• Gentian plants
  • Swallowwort gentian ( Gentiana asclepiadea )
• Fever Clover Family
  • Fever clover or bitter clover ( Menyanthes trifoliata )
• Knapweed
  • Meadow knapweed ( Centaurea jacea )
• Frog-spoon plants
  • Common frog spoon ( Alisma plantago-aquatica )
• Honeysuckle family
  • Common devil bite ( Succisa pratensis )
  • Small valerian ( Valeriana dioica )
• Buttercups
  • Marsh marigold ( Caltha palustris )
• Heather family
  • Heather ( Calluna vulgaris ), also known as heather or Erika referred
  • Blueberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus )
  • Bogberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum )
  • Rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia ), also Polei-Gränke , lavender , Poleirosmarinheide or marsh rosemary called
• St. John's wort family
  • Winged St. John's Wort ( Hypericum tetrapterum )
• Pine family
  • Mountain pine ( Pinus mugo )
  • Norway spruce ( Picea abies ), also Rotfichte called
  • Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ), and Scots pine , Scotch pine , white pine or Forche called
• Knotweed
  • Sorrel ( Rumex acetosa ) and Big sorrel or just sorrel called
• Daisy family
  • Bach thistle ( Cirsium rivulare )
  • Common - , common - or real goldenrod ( Solidago virgaurea )
  • Common thistle ( Cirsium vulgare )
  • Lower salsify ( Scorzonera humilis )
  • Stiff-haired dandelion ( Leontodon hispidus )
• Finials
  • Quendelblättrige finial ( Polygala serpyllifolia )
  • Pre-Alpine finial ( Polygala alpestris )
• Buckthorn family
  • Buckthorn ( Frangula alnus )
• Mint family
  • Field mint ( Mentha arvensis )
• Evening primrose family
  • Marsh willowherb ( Epilobium palustre )
• Carnation family
  • Cuckoo's light carnation ( Lychnis flos-cuculi )
• Orchids
  • Flesh-colored orchid ( Dactylorhiza incarnata )
  • Large two-leaf ( Listera ovata )
  • Mosquito Haendelwurz ( Gymnadenia conopsea )
  • Marsh stendellum ( Epipactis palustris )
  • Marsh soft orchis ( Hammarbya paludosa ), one of the smallest and rarest orchids found in Europe
  • Two-bladed butterfly orchid ( Platanthera bifolia ), also white butterfly orchid called
• Primrose family
  • Common loosestrife ( Lysimachia vulgaris )
  • Mehlprimel or floury cowslip ( Primula farinosa )
  • Ostrich loosestrife ( Lysimachia thyrsiflora )
• Red growths
  • Bog bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum )
• Cattail plants
  • Broad-leaved cattail ( Typha latifolia )
  • Common hedgehog ( Sparganium emersum )
• Rose plants
  • Bloodroot ( Potentilla erecta )
  • Meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria )
  • Swamp blood-eye ( Potentilla palustris )
• Sourgrass family
  • Alpine turf rush ( Trichophorum alpinum )
  • Pale sedge ( Carex pallescens )
  • Thread sedge ( Carex lasiocarpa )
  • Millet sedge ( Carex panicea )
  • Rostred Kopfried ( Schoenus ferrugineus )
  • Vaginal cottongrass ( Eriophorum vaginatum )
  • Mud sedge ( Carex limosa )
  • Narrow-leaved cottongrass ( Eriophorum angustifolium )
  • Beaked sedge ( Carex rostrata )
  • Blackhead sedge ( Carex appropinquata )
  • Stiff Sedge ( Carex elata )
  • Star sedge ( Carex echinata )
  • White Schnabelried ( Rhynchospora alba )
• Ledge lily plants
  • Common field lily ( Tofieldia calyculata )
• Summer root plants
  • Meadow quail wheat ( Melampyrum pratense )
  • Marsh louse weed ( Pedicularis palustris )
• Sundew plants
  • Long-leaved Sundew ( Drosera anglica )
  • Middle sundew ( Drosera intermedia )
  • Round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia )
• Spindle trees
  • Parnassia palustris ( Parnassia palustris ), also student florets called
• Sweet grasses
  • Upright brome ( Bromus erectus )
  • Common trembling grass ( Briza media )
  • Reed ( Phragmites australis )
• Violet family
  • Marsh violet ( Viola palustris )
• Hose plants
  • Common butterwort ( Pinguicula vulgaris ), a carnivorous plant belonging to the genus butterwort
• Willow plants
  • Salix cinerea ( Salix cinerea ), also gray pasture called
  • Creeping Willow ( Salix repens )
  • Ear or sage willow ( Salix aurita )
• Loosestrife
  • Common loosestrife ( Lythrum salicaria )
• Spurge family
  • Cypress Spurge ( Euphorbia cyparissias )

fauna

The nature reserve is a habitat of a whole number of high- and intermediate Moore specialized dragonflies - and butterfly species . It gains additional importance as a habitat for amphibians .

Amphibians

• Real frogs
  • Pond frog ( Rana esculenta ), also inaccurate Wasserfrosch called

insects

Spotted darter ♀

Dragonflies

• Hawk dragonflies
  • Falcon dragonfly or common emerald dragonfly ( Cordulia aenea )
• Slender vials
  • Common cup maiden ( Enallagma cyathigerum )
• Dragonflies
  • Spotted darter ( Sympetrum flaveolum )
  • Common darter ( Sympetrum vulgatum )
  • Great moss damsel ( Leucorrhinia pectoralis )
  • Black darter ( Sympetrum danae )

Butterflies

Blue-red clover ♂

• Blues
  • Silver-studded blue ( Plebejus argus ), often Argus Bluebird called
  • Blue-red clover ( Polyommatus semiargus )
• Noble butterfly
  • Valerian-Scheckenfalter or Silberscheckenfalter ( Melitaea diamina )
  • Ringlet ( Aphantopus hyperantus ), also known as chimney sweep referred
  • Brown-spotted mother-of-pearl butterfly ( Boloria selene )
  • Great meadow bird ( Coenonympha tullia )
  • High-moor mother-of-pearl butterfly ( Boloria aquilonaris )
  • Small Heath ( Coenonympha pamphilus ), also known as Little Heufalter referred
  • Meadowsweet mother-of-pearl butterfly or violet silver butterfly ( Brenthis ino )

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Ravensburg district
• List of nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Department for nature conservation and landscape management: nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Ed .: Regional Council Tübingen. Second revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 , pp. 310-312 .

Web links

Commons : Blauensee Nature Reserve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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