Egelseewiesen

"Egelseewiesen" nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
NSG Egelseewiesen, south view
location	Forest , Sigmaringen district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	48 ha
Identifier	4,198
WDPA ID	162849
Geographical location	47 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '27 "  N , 9 ° 9' 49"  E
Sea level	from 655 m to 665 m ( ø 660 m)
Setup date	March 2, 1992
administration	Regional Council Tübingen
particularities	Wetland settlement

The Egelseewiesen area is a nature reserve (NSG number 4.198) in the south of the Baden-Württemberg community of Wald in the district of Sigmaringen in Germany, which was designated by ordinance of March 2, 1992 by the Tübingen regional council .

location

The approximately 48 hectare large nature reserve Egelsee meadows is one natural area to the Upper Swabian hills and the Danube Ablach plates . It is located about three and a half kilometers southwest of the forest center in the districts of Ruhestetten and Rothenlachen , at an average altitude of 660  m above sea level. NN

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation and promotion of the area with its diverse biotope structures consisting of a moor forest, a moist grassland belt, a railway embankment, some fruit trees and agriculturally unused biotope structures as a habitat for numerous endangered animal and plant species. Particularly noteworthy is the structurally rich moor forest as a habitat for numerous species of birds, especially for cave breeders, as well as its species-rich ground vegetation. The area is also of cultural, historical and archaeological importance.

Partner protected areas

Parts of the reserve Kreuzäcker are inventory of 247,692 square meters Already Forest " Egelsee ".

Flora and fauna

flora

The moor forest complex is a species-rich spruce-pine-birch bog forest that has an extremely high proportion of dead wood.

fauna

41 breeding bird species were found in the protected area, a quarter of the species are cave-breeders, at least four species are either dependent on dead wood and rot in the annual cycle to create their nest caves or to provide sufficient food. The trenches of the former railway embankment house two reptile and four amphibian species as well as a very diverse aquatic insect fauna.

The following animal species (selection) sorted by class , family and species are recorded in the Egelseewiesen area :

• Insects (Insecta)
  • Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
    • Paw beetle or bedstraw leaf beetle ( Timarcha tenebricosa )
• Arachnids (arachnida)
  • Predatory spiders (Pisauridae)
    • Edged hunting spider , rarely also called list spider ( Dolomedes fimbriatus )

Stilt houses

In 1893 a so-called wet soil settlement from the Neolithic Age was discovered in the Egelsee meadows while cutting peat . Targeted excavations in 1936 succeeded in securing a total of six houses with well-preserved floors from this so-called Pfyn-Altheimer culture . Thanks to these finds, the protected area is of great importance not only ecologically, but also from a cultural and historical perspective.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the district of Sigmaringen
• List of nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Department for nature conservation and landscape management: nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Ed .: Regional Council Tübingen. Second revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 , pp. 462-463 .

Web links

Commons : Egelseewiesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ordinance, data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the nature reserve in the protected area directory of the LUBW

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas , section " Protection purpose"
2. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: The prehistory and early history in the district of Sigmaringen . ed. from the district of Sigmaringen, department culture and archive, and Kulturforum district Sigmaringen eV 2009