Blood meadow
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Blood meadow
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| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany |
| surface | 26,545 ha |
| WDPA ID | 162469 |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 ' N , 8 ° 45' E |
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| Setup date | September 19, 1994 |
| administration | Lower landscape authority of the Herford district |
The Blutwiese is a nature reserve in Löhne - Gohfeld / Ostscheid.
The area designated in 1995 is not far from the Ostscheider Bach and has a size of around 26.5 hectares. The name Blutwiese goes back to a battle in the Seven Years War , in which English and French troops joined forces on August 1, 1759 to cross the Weser Minden delivered a fierce battle (see: → Battle near Gohfeld ).
The area is located in a damp floodplain in the Ravensberg hill country . As a result, there are valuable wetland habitats here. One finds, among other things, an alder - quarry forest with occurrences of sour grass , the swamp iris and other types of reed beds , reeds and sedge reeds . Various amphibian species live in a small pond and in another near-natural still water. The drainage ditches of breaking numerous grow willows rows . The area has been cut from south to north by the northern bypass of the federal motorway 30 since 2018 .
See also
Web links
- "Blutwiese" nature reserve (HF-027) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia