The great Hörmes (Dieburg)

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The great Hörmes

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Nature reserve "The great Hörmes" (2015)

Nature reserve "The great Hörmes" (2015)

location northwest of Dieburg , Darmstadt-Dieburg district , Hesse
surface 13.63
WDPA ID 162707
Geographical location 49 ° 54 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '21 "  N , 8 ° 49' 16"  E
The great Hörmes (Dieburg) (Hesse)
The great Hörmes (Dieburg)
Setup date 4th February 1985

The great Hörmes near Dieburg is a nature reserve in the Dieburg district in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district , southern Hesse . The wetland was placed under nature protection by ordinance of February 4, 1985.

location

“The great Hörmes” is located in the Untermainebene natural area - Gersprenz lowland north-west of Dieburg, north of state road 3094 to Messel. The reserve has a size of 13.63 hectares. It extends in a west-east direction over about 860 meters, in north-south direction over a maximum of 378 meters. The Hörmesgraben, a side stream of the Gersprenz, forms the northern border.

description

The area includes extensive reeds and sedges , wet meadows , litter meadows and areas used as hay meadows. These form a habitat for numerous endangered plant and animal species and should be preserved by placing them under protection. As plant species on the Red List grow here cotton grass , marsh orchid , Fringed Pink and Avens . The breeding birds in the reserve include snipe , gray bunting , whinchat , meadow pipit and yellow wagtail .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Gazette for the State of Hesse, edition No. 7/1985, p. 386. Ordinance on the nature reserve “The great Hörmes near Dieburg” of February 4, 1985. PDF .
  2. ↑ "Environmental Protection" map. BürgerGIS district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. Darmstadt-Dieburg district, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Albrecht Ensgraber: Hesse's new nature reserves (15). Vogel und Umwelt Volume 4, pp. 132-152. 1986. (p. 138).

credentials

  • Environmental Atlas Hesse . HLUG, Wiesbaden 2001/04 (CD-ROM)

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