Darnsee

Darnsee
	Natural swimming pool at the Darnsee in Bramsche
Geographical location	Bramsche , Osnabrück district , Lower Saxony
Places on the shore	Bramsche
Location close to the shore	Osnabrück
	Data
Coordinates	52 ° 25 '17 " N , 7 ° 59' 59" E Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '17 " N , 7 ° 59' 59" E
surface	8 ha
length	400 m
width	200 m
Maximum depth	5.5 m
Middle deep	3 m
PH value	7.8
particularities	Natural inland lake, created by sinkhole

The Darnsee is a stagnant body of water northeast of Bramsche in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .

General

The Darnsee was created by a sinkhole . Underground salt deposits were dissolved by groundwater and the surface collapsed. The lake is about 400 m long and 200 m wide. There is a natural swimming pool on its east bank.

Nature reserve

In 1932 the lake and its immediate surroundings were designated as a nature reserve. It has a size of about 11 hectares and bears the statistical code "NSG WE 3". The area is congruent with FFH area 318.

Landscape image

The NSG is framed by oak-birch forests and pine forests. Larger alder and birch forests stretch near the shore, while further seaward, extensive reed beds are connected, which are mainly composed of reeds ( Phragmites australis ), pond rush ( Schoenoplectus lacustris ) and cattails.

animals and plants

Among the floristic peculiarities of the area are, or were: Thelypteris palustris ( Theylpteris palustris ), hedgehog hose ( Baldellia ranunculoides ), thread-sedge , Calla Lily ( Calla plaustris ) and cutting ( Cladium mariscus ).

As breeding birds so far u. a. Great crested grebe , little bittern , mallard , water rail and reed warbler detected.

In the Darnsee there are pike , pikeperch , perch and various white fish such as rudd , bleak , tench , carp , bream and the aland . The lake is used by the sport fishing club "Frühauf" Bramsche as a fishing water. In 2009, eel, perch, bream, bream, pike, crucian carp, carp, roach, rudd and tench were reported from the lake.

Picture gallery

Darnsee in April
Darnsee in winter

literature

W. Kunz: The bird world of the Bersenbrück district . Bersenbrück 1959
Fritz Runge: The nature reserves of Westphalia and the former administrative district of Osnabrück . 4th edition, Münster 1982, p. 307

Web links

Commons : Darnsee - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ www.anglermap.de: Darnsee water profile (the maximum depth is given there as 5.5 m, the area as approx. 8.1 ha) (accessed on November 8, 2014)
↑ Bathing water atlas Lower Saxony: Naturbad Darnsee (determined 2011-2013) (accessed on November 8, 2014)
^ "Darnsee" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
↑ Profile of the NSG "Darnsee" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

[1] www.anglermap.de: Darnsee water profile (the maximum depth is given there as 5.5 m, the area as approx. 8.1 ha) (accessed on November 8, 2014)

[2] Bathing water atlas Lower Saxony: Naturbad Darnsee (determined 2011-2013) (accessed on November 8, 2014)

[3] "Darnsee" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

[4] Profile of the NSG "Darnsee" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)