Donauried

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Bird habitat of the eastern Donauried

The Donauried is a river landscape in western Bavaria (and to a lesser extent in eastern Baden-Württemberg ) between Ulm / Neu-Ulm and Donauwörth . Alluvial forest shapes the picture from Ulm to Lauingen . In addition, the reservoir near Faimingen , the Swabian Donaumoos between Ulm and Gundelfingen and the Gundelfingen park landscape in this wetland area of ​​the Danube with international importance according to the Ramsar Convention are remarkable. Birds, amphibians, dragonflies, grasshoppers and butterflies find habitats in the fens . Some plant species native to the Donauried are on the Red List as endangered . Several nature reserves, e.g. B. Apfelwörth or the bird habitat of the eastern Donauried should preserve the biodiversity. The resettlement of white storks ( Offingen , Gundelfingen , Lauingen , Höchstädt ) , which has only been successful in recent years, deserves a special mention .

The formerly boggy plain is relatively sparsely populated, but is used all the more intensively by people. This began with the river straightening between 1806 and 1867 ("Danube correction"). The aim was to gain grassland for agriculture. Floods were later provided for with flood dikes. Between 1961 and 1984 barrages to hydropower plants were built .

The Donauried has valuable gravel deposits of the highest quality. Due to the gravel quarrying, around 700 quarry ponds can be found in the region, which in summer also attract bathers from further neighboring areas.

The groundwater level threatens to drop further due to the rapid discharge of the groundwater and surface water into the Danube and its deepening in the river bed. On the one hand, this benefits the economic use of land. On the other hand, however, there is a threat to the natural landscape and biodiversity in the Donauried. Parts of the Donauried are designated as a bird sanctuary or landscape conservation area. The state water supply , a long-distance water supplier in Baden-Württemberg, gets some of its drinking water from the groundwater of the Donauried.

  • Over 70 endangered bird species breed in the Apfelwörth nature reserve

  • The Donauried in winter near Dillingen an der Donau

  • Many small quarry ponds run through the Donauried

  • Information board: bird habitat of the eastern Donauried

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