Dent pale

	"Dellenhäule" nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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 Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '53 " N , 10 ° 14' 34" E
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

"Ant town" with nest mounds of the yellow meadow ant (detail)

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.

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

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

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

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[2] 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)

[3] Huge ant settlement on the Swabian Alb In: Mannheimer Morgen, published on June 16, 2020

[4] The world's largest metropolis is on the Alb In: Neckar-Chronik, published on June 14, 2020