Elzwiesen
Nature and landscape protection area "Elzwiesen"
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location | Kenzingen , Rheinhausen , Rust , Emmendingen District , Ortenaukreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | |
surface | 4.108 km² | |
Identifier | 3,174 | |
WDPA ID | 162939 | |
Natura 2000 ID | DE-7712-341 | |
FFH area | 49.292 km² | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 14 ' N , 7 ° 44' E | |
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Sea level | from 164 m to 172 m | |
Setup date | November 6, 1990 | |
administration | Regional council Freiburg |
Elzwiesen is a nature reserve and landscape protection area in Baden-Württemberg . It is a cultural-historical document of an old form of management ( water meadows ) along the Elz as a breeding area for endangered bird species and a resting and feeding area for migrants .
geography
The nature and landscape protection area is located in the Offenburg Rhine plain in the area of the municipalities of Kenzingen , Rheinhausen and Rust in the district of Emmendingen and in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg.
Characteristics
The area was designated as a nature and landscape protection area by ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council of November 6, 1990 . This ordinance was renewed on March 25, 2004, the ordinance of 1990 expired. The NSG is managed under the protected area number 3.174 at the regional council of Freiburg . It has an area of 410.8 hectares , of which 281.5 hectares fall in the Emmendingen district and 129.3 hectares in the Ortenau district. The nature reserve is classified in IUCN Category IV, a biotope and species protection area. The WDPA-ID is 162939 and corresponds to the European CDDA code and the EUNIS number. The area is also part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas with an area of 4,929.17 hectares.
The protection purpose of the nature reserve is
- "The preservation of a large meadow area in the Elz lowlands, with a near-natural river section of the Alte Elz in the southern area,
- as a cultural and historical document of an old form of management (meadow irrigation) with original hydraulic structures;
- as a habitat for several rare and endangered animal species, especially bird species that breed in the meadows.
- The protection purpose is also the preservation of the habitat types and species of the Habitats Directive and the Bird Protection Directive such as flowing waters with flooding aquatic vegetation and lean lowland hay meadows, the common river mussel, the blue damselfly, the great fire butterfly, the curlew and several here as migrants or winter guests Occurring migratory birds, especially waders and raptors. "
Landscape protection area
In order to secure the nature reserve from impairment and to realize the protection purpose, a landscape protection area with a total size of around 327 hectares was set up in addition to the above-mentioned ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council. The LSG is around 135 hectares (protected area number 3.17.020) in the Ortenau district and with around 192 hectares (protected area number 3.16.013) in the district of Emmendingen.
See also
- List of nature reserves in the district of Emmendingen
- List of landscape protection areas in the district of Emmendingen
- List of nature reserves in the Ortenaukreis
- List of landscape protection areas in the Ortenaukreis
literature
- Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Unit: Nature reserves in the Freiburg administrative region . Ed .: Regional Council Freiburg. 3. Edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5177-9 .
Web links
- Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
- Elzwiesen: A description of the area on mitwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ § 3 Protection Ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council of March 25, 2004, accessed on April 1, 2013.