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"Dellenhäule" nature reserve
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location | Aalen and Neresheim in the Ostalbkreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | |
surface | 24.1 ha | |
Identifier | 1023 | |
WDPA ID | 81510 | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 49 ' N , 10 ° 15' E | |
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Setup date | 19th August 1969 | |
administration | Regional Council Stuttgart |
The Dellenhäule is a nature reserve in the area of the Baden-Württemberg city of Aalen and the municipality of Neresheim in the Ostalb district .
Characteristics
The area was designated as a nature reserve by ordinance of the Stuttgart Regional Council of August 19, 1969 and has a size of 24.1 hectares. It is listed under the protected area number 1023. The CDDA code for the nature reserve is 81510 and corresponds to the WDPA ID .
location
The protected area is around 1000 meters south of the hamlet of Beuren, which is part of the Waldhausen district of Aalen . It is located in the 3363 hectare FFH area No. 7327-341 Härtsfeld and is completely enclosed by the 554 hectare landscape protection area No. 1.36.059 Kugeltal, Ebnater Valley, parts of the Heiligental and adjacent areas .
The NSG Dellenhäule is located in the natural area 096- Albuch and Härtsfeld within the natural spatial main unit 09- Swabian Alb .
Protection purpose
The purpose of protection is the preservation of the juniper heather as a sheep pasture and Hudewald forest with a sparse population of juniper, whiteboy, ash and beech trees, with roses and sole bushes and splendid single old oaks.
Ant population
A special feature is the "Ant City" - a collection of thousands of nest mounds of the yellow meadow ant overgrown with grass and herbs . These have been nesting in a former field for about 130 years and are prey for animals such as the green woodpecker , the wryneck and knot ants . According to the BUND , several hundred million ants live on the almost 2 hectare area. At peak times there were up to 14,000 anthills here. According to the biologist Bernhard Seifert from the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz , the ant town is home to one of the world's largest occurrences of an ant species.
See also
literature
- Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 .
Web links
- Ant town Dellenhäule - a threatened natural treasure in the Ostalb district on ameisenstadt.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Alfred G. Benzing: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 171 -Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1964. → Online map (PDF; 4.4 MB)
- ↑ Huge ant settlement on the Swabian Alb In: Mannheimer Morgen, published on June 16, 2020
- ↑ The world's largest metropolis is on the Alb In: Neckar-Chronik, published on June 14, 2020