Rubble forest

Typical rubble forest at the NSG Gangolfsberg in the Rhön

Block debris forest (more rarely also known as hillside and block debris forest or rock block forest ) is a forest area on block debris heaps (coarse rock decomposition), especially on slopes, in mountain gorges or also in landslide areas or on weathered volcanic mountain cones such. B. around the NSG Felsenmeer near Pforzheim, around the Felsenmeer in the NSG Felsberg near Reichenbach in the Odenwald and the Rhön block rubble forests in the NSG around the Gangolfsberg . The rubble forest is often viewed as a special form of ravine forests . A distinction is often only made between an ash or sycamore-sycamore canyon forest on cooler, moist locations and a norway maple -summer linden block rubble forest on mild, dry locations.

Usually mixed forest , which belongs to the beech forest communities (Fagetalia), which is associated with summer linden and noble deciduous trees such as sycamore , sycamore and norway maple , sessile oak and ash , is often a location for rare plants and fungi and has a high biodiversity . With the exception of the Rhön, the rubble forests in Central Europe are only sparsely preserved and scattered.

Rubble forests are severely threatened biotopes . Their protection is prescribed by law: Europe-wide in the Habitats Directive and in Germany by the Federal Nature Conservation Act .

Known occurrences of rubble forests

Explanatory board in the Rhön

Classified according to natural areas:

• In the FFH area block rubble forests on the Pleysteiner Sulzberg in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab ( Bavarian Forest )
• Rauher Kulm natural forest reserve in the municipality of Bernrieds in the Deggendorf district (Bavarian Forest)

• In the Bodetal ( Harz )
• NSG Schieferberg near the town of Oberharz am Brocken (Harz)
• NSG tunnel system Büchenberg near Elbingerode between Oberharz am Brocken and Wernigerode (Harz)

• In the Hochwald natural area of ​​the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park

• Around Ślęża (also Sobótka or Zobtenberg ) southwest of Wrocław in Lower Silesia

• NSG Hüttenberg in the municipality of Bärenthal in the district of Tuttlingen ( Upper Danube Nature Park )

• Felsenmeer in the NSG Felsberg near Reichenbach (Odenwald)

• NSG Breiter Berg near Haselstein (Rhön)
• NSG Gangolfsberg (Rhön)
• NSG Langenstüttig and basalt blocks on the Buchschirmküppel near Batten (sub-area "Langenstüttig") (Rhön)
• Around the Öchsenberg (Rhön)
• East side of the Steinkopf in the Hessian desert Saxony (Rhön)

• NSG Felsenmeer near Pforzheim ( Black Forest )
• NSG Klebwald in the municipality of Neuhausen im Enzkreis (Black Forest)

• Small deposits in numerous gorges around Eisenach ( Thuringian Forest )

See also

• Forest societies of Central Europe

Web links

• The website for the Goldau landslide of 1806

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NATURA 2000 - Habitat type forests: Gorge and hillside mixed forests , leaflet of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (PDF file, 715 kB), accessed on January 19, 2017
2. ↑ State law of Rhineland-Palatinate on the sustainable development of nature and landscape (State Nature Conservation Act - LNatSchG) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ministerialblatt der Landesregierung von Rheinland-Pfalz, No. 6 of April 3, 2007, § 28 Paragraph 3 (p. 547) (PDF file, 106 kB), accessed on January 19, 2017