Burgau (nature and landscape protection area)

	"Burgau" nature reserve and landscape protection area IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	NSG Burgau
location	Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	4.052 km²
Identifier	2.122 (NSG) 2.12.019 (LSG)
WDPA ID	162641 and 320192
Geographical location	49 ° 2 ' N , 8 ° 19' E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '38 " N , 8 ° 19' 14" E
Setup date	1989

The Burgau is a combined nature and landscape protection area in Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg , Germany. The reserve was established in 1989 and surrounds the older nature reserve Altrhein Maxau . It is located in the Rhine floodplains between the Rhine in the west, the Rhine harbor in the south and the Alb and the southern bypass in the east and north. Burgau serves to preserve and maintain a landscape of the young and old floodplains shaped by the Rhine with a variety of different natural and near-natural biotope types such as wet biotopes with open water areas, floating leaf areas, reed areas and shallow water areas, steep banks, reeds, pools, ditches, wet meadows, meadow communities, Orchards , arable fringes, bushes, hedges, forest biotopes, dry and ruderal locations as well as raw soil biotopes . The Burgau protected area includes the southern part of Karlsruhe's largest quarry pond, Knielinger See and the Knielingen racecourse . It consists of 291 hectares of nature reserve and 114 hectares of landscape protection area.

literature

District Office for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Karlsruhe (Ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-5172-7

Web links

Commons : Burgau nature reserve - collection of images, videos and audio files

Profile of the landscape protection area in the protected area directory of the LUBW

Burgau and Altrhein Maxau - City of Karlsruhe

Burgau (nature and landscape protection area)

See also

literature

Web links