Lauteracher Ried European Protected Area
The European protected area Lauteracher Ried ( Natura 2000 areas ) is located in the municipalities of Lauterach and Hard , in Vorarlberg , Austria . It includes single trees and small groups of trees, meadows and farms and other cultivated land.
The purpose of the Lauteracher Ried European Protected Area is to protect endangered native plant and animal species and their natural habitats living here, as well as to preserve the centuries-old cultivated land (see also: Ried in Vorarlberg )
history
The Lauteracher Ried has been used economically for centuries. For a long time it was not accessible or very difficult to access in terms of traffic. For centuries, peat (clods) was cut for heating purposes or for bedding (until the middle of the 20th century ). The peat layers are up to six meters thick.
Legal basis
The European protected area Lauteracher Ried has the protection status as a landscape protection area due to the regulation landscape protection area "Lauteracher Ried" and is a bird protection area. In accordance with the relevant guidelines of the European Union, the European protected area was partially registered as a bird protection area, whereby the existing breeding occurrence of the corncrake was decisive for the declaration as a bird protection area .
Purpose and scope of protection
The purpose of protection is
- to preserve the open reed landscape in the south of the Lauteracher reed as well as the park-like landscape with its naturally grown terrain structure in the central and northern part of the Lauteracher reed in its uniqueness and in its special aesthetic charm,
- to secure agriculture in the sense of an intensity of use adapted to the location and to protect it from competing uses that destroy soil and landscape,
- to maintain a large, uncut and contiguous natural landscape in the lower Rhine Valley in the long term,
- to create a suitable buffer zone to avoid disturbances for the littered meadow areas protected according to the litter meadow ordinance.
topography
The Lauteracher Ried European Protected Area is located in the northern Rhine Valley between the Dornbirner Ach and on the municipality of Hard and Lauterach.
Approx. 90 ha (around 16%) of the protected landscape consists of wet meadows ( litter meadow ), which are mowed only once a year. The tree population consists mainly of birch and oak . The northern part has more trees, while the southern part has a wood-poor, moor-like character. The entire area has only a slight gradient and is at an altitude of about 400 m above sea level. A. with an area of about 580 hectares.
The largest still body of water in the European protected area is the Jannersee ( groundwater lake ) to the northeast, and the Dornbirner Ache flows along the entire southwestern side . In the south-western, southern and south-eastern areas, the European protected area borders seamlessly on the European protected area Soren, Gleggen – Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken – Schwarzes Zeug .
literature
- Lauteracher Ried European Protected Area , Office of the Vorarlberg State Government, Bregenz.
Web links
- European protected areas in Vorarlberg , website: Vogis.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ LGBl. No. 82/1997, 63/2002.
- ↑ Ordinance of the Vorarlberg state government for the implementation of the law on nature conservation and landscape development, LGBl. No. 8/1998.
- ^ Ordinance of the Vorarlberg state government on the "Streuewiesenbiotopverbund Rheintal-Walgau", LGBl. No. 61/1995.
- ↑ § 3 of the regulation of the Vorarlberg state government on the landscape protection area "Lauteracher Ried", LGBl. No. 82/1997, 63/2002.
- ↑ See graphic representation of the Office of the State Government of May 2, 2003, Zl IVe-106.00.
- ↑ § 2 Ordinance of the Vorarlberg state government on the nature reserve "Lauteracher Ried".
Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 50.5 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 19.7" E