Oakhude forests near Lauenberg

Oakhude forests near Lauenberg IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Oak trees on the eastern edge of the nature reserve
location	Southwest of Einbeck , in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony
surface	21.6 ha
Identifier	NSG BR 030
WDPA ID	81586
Geographical location	51 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '19 "  N , 9 ° 44' 44"  E
Sea level	from 305 m to 371 m
Setup date	07/02/1975
administration	NLWKN

The Eichenhudewälder near Lauenberg are two oak- wooded areas that form a nature reserve in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony . Both areas are in the community-free area of ​​Solling within the low mountain range of Solling .

description

The larger of the two areas begins a few hundred meters southwest of Lauenberg. It is 21.6 hectares in size, while the other area is only 2.6 hectares and is about 3 km further south-west.

The tree population consists mainly of sessile oaks of all ages, the oldest growing there since the 15th century. The use as forest pasture , which continued into the 19th century , gave the area the bright character that is typical of hat forests and allows sunlight to pass through to the forest floor. As a result of the cessation of use, an herbaceous layer of plants interspersed with beech and ash undergrowth has formed. As a result, the area in the inner area is hardly accessible, which also supports the protection goal.

Hikers can get an immediate impression of the forest on the eastern edge of the larger area.

The fauna of this protected area, is part of a FFH area is include well-known species such as squirrels or jays , inconspicuous as treecreeper and rare species such as the stag beetle . In connection with the diverse occurrence of insects, the proportion of waste wood offers the middle woodpecker a habitat. Pied flycatchers , fieldfare , blue tit , great tit and nuthatch can often be seen.

history

In the vicinity of the larger Eichenhudewald there are several mountains with managed forests. They are hardly noticeable, as the protected area itself is already a plateau at around 300 m above sea level. To the north is the Burghals with the castle ruins of Lauenberg, to the southwest the Lehmseberg, south of the Platte mountain and to the east, next to the other bank of the Dieße, the Großeehrenberg . In the Middle Ages, the area bounded by them was the center of a settlement area that included villages such as Northagen and Rodenwater. In 1388 they were part of Mr. Grubo von Grubenhagen's sales package and later fell into disrepair .

The area was in the Great Lauenberg Forest, in which the right to read wood for burning purposes was exercised in the following centuries not only by the immediately neighboring village, but also by free people from Hilwartshausen and the paper mill in Relliehausen . The beneficiaries had to provide the rulers with their vehicles free of charge in return if required . According to customary law, the village of Lauenberg was free from taxes for the acorn fattening . The use of the forest as pasture, which had arisen in the Middle Ages due to a lack of crops in the local area, was only discontinued after the advent of fertilizer and the land ownership regulations changed by the Prussian agricultural constitution .

In the early modern period , the tree population preserved near Lauenberg was characteristic of larger parts of the Solling, until the high altitude areas in particular were planted with spruce , after some areas such as the Great Pare were completely deforested due to overuse and a storm on Ascension Day 1766. As a contemporary witness, a chief forester in Solling described the partly overgrown state of the hat areas in the middle of the 19th century:

“Occasional or clusters of standing oaks and beeches, also settled hawthorns and numerous wild fruit trees with their grotesque shapes, and above all true thickets of ferns as high as a man were often the product of the soil alongside poor grass growth. ... At that time, however, the entire Solling was still characterized by oak trees dating back hundreds of years in such a space that only such a service-rich forest could allow. ... But even the few small villages and isolated settlements sprinkled into this huge forest complex were only able to interrupt the sublime tranquility that reigned incessantly on the ridge. "

- Proud 1911

Web links

Commons : Eichenhudewälder nature reserve near Lauenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Eichenhudewälder bei Lauenberg" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Burckhardt: Sowing and planting according to forest practice: Handbook of wood education, 1870, p. 15
2. ↑ Jann Wübbenhorst, Peter Südbeck: Woodpeckers as Indicators for Sustainable Forestry? 2001 (PDF file; 196 kB)
3. ↑ Erwin R. Scherner: Vogel und Umwelt im Solling, in: Faunistische Mitteilungen aus Süd-Niedersachsen, Volume 3, 1980, pp. 3–240
4. ^ Hermann Sudendorf: Document book for the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands, Volume 6, 1867, S. XLIII
5. ↑ Rudolf Neermann: The economic and geographical significance of the Solling for the Dasseler basin, in: Einbecker Jahrbuch, Volume 30, 1970, pp. 24-69
6. ↑ Michael Koch: Waldweide, Jagd und Holz - Insights into the historical forest management in Solling, in: Yearbook for the district of Holzminden, Volume 25, 2007, pp. 115-138
7. ^ Wilhelm Pfeil: The Sollinger Forest, in: Critical sheets for forest and hunting science, Volume 21, 1845, pp 107-146
8. ↑ E. Stolze: Memories from hunting time, in: Deutsche Jägerzeitung 57, 1911, pp. 515f