European protected area Soren, Gleggen – Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken – Schwarzes Zeug

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Part of the Lower Swiss Ried with a view of Bregenz
Late winter 2019, Schwarzes Zeug protected area, view towards Lauterach
Late winter 2019, the Schwarzes Zeug protected area, view towards the Swiss mountains

The European protected area Soren, Gleggen – Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken – Schwarzes Zeug ( Natura 2000 areas ) is located in the municipalities of Dornbirn , Lauterach , Lustenau and Wolfurt 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 area has been used economically for centuries. For a long time it was not accessible or very difficult to access in terms of traffic. Here peat (clods) was sometimes cut for heating purposes or for bedding for centuries (until the middle of the 20th century ). The peat layers are up to six meters thick.

Legal basis

The European protected area Soren, Gleggen - Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken - Schwarzes Zeug has the protection status based on several laws and regulations:

  • Ordinance of the state government on the nature reserve "Birches - Black stuff - Meander of the Dornbirnerach" in Dornbirn and Wolfurt,
  • Ordinance of the state government on the "Litter meadow biotope network Rheintal - Walgau",
  • Law on nature conservation and landscape development,
  • Nature Conservation Ordinance,
  • Ordinance of the state government on an amendment to the nature conservation ordinance,
  • Ordinance of the state government on buffer zones for the protection of areas outside the Natura 2000 area "Soren, Gleggen - Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken - Schwarzes Zeug".
  • Ordinance of the state government on the protection of the parts of the "Gleggen-Köblern" area in the Natura 2000 area "Soren, Gleggen - Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken - Schwarzes Zeug",

Purpose and scope of protection

The European protected area is an FFH protected area and also a bird sanctuary. 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 and the black kite was decisive for the declaration of the bird protection area , but also occurrence of snails , tree pipit , stonechat , whinchat , field owl , gray bunting , cuckoo , Lapwing , curlew , black- tailed godwit and miniature godwit . Around 80 percent of the lapwing population in the Lake Constance region breeds in this European protected area. For snipe and curlew, the reed areas in the lower Vorarlberg Rhine Valley are even the only breeding area in the Lake Constance area.

The protection purpose as a FFH area is to protect the occurrence of habitat types and species in Annexes I and II of the Habitats Directive :

Together with the adjacent Lauteracher Ried European Protected Area, protection also consists of preserving the open reed landscape and the partly park-like landscape with its naturally grown terrain, securing agriculture in terms of an intensity of use that is adapted to the location and preventing competing uses that destroy soil and landscape protect a large, uncut and contiguous natural landscape area in the lower Rhine Valley in the long term and create a suitable buffer zone to avoid disturbances for the litter meadow areas protected according to the litter meadow ordinance.

topography

The European protected area is located in the northern Alps Rhine Valley between the Dornbirner Ach and on the municipal areas of Dornbirn, Lauterach, Lustenau and Wolfurt. There are three major areas:

  • Gleggen-Köblern
  • Swiss reed
  • Soren, birch-black stuff

which together resemble a three-bladed propeller and collide near the Lauterach transmitter or the transmitter bridge .

The European protection area Soren, Gleggen-Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken-Schwarzes Zeug encompasses 317.62  hectares and, since 2007, two additional buffer zones to protect the parts of the Gleggen-Köblern area, with 91.19 hectares that lie outside this European protection area.

A significant part of the protected landscape consists of wet meadows ( litter meadow ) that are mowed only once a year. The tree population consists z. B. from birch and oak . The entire area has only a slight gradient and is at an altitude of about 400  m above sea level. A.

In the north-east, north and north-west area, part of the European protected area (Soren or Schweizer Ried) borders seamlessly on the European protected area Lauteracher Ried.

literature

  • European protected area Soren, Gleggen - Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken - Schwarzes Zeug , Office of the Vorarlberg State Government, Bregenz ( online ).
  • Meadow breeder protection in Vorarlberg , interim report on the project of the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Union and the small game areas Auer Ried, Lustenau and Dornbirn Nord

Web links

Commons : European protected area Soren, Gleggen – Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken – Schwarzes Zeug  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LGBl. No. 42/1992.
  2. ↑ LGBl. No. 61/1995.
  3. ↑ LGBl. No. 22/1997.
  4. ↑ LGBl. No. 36/2003.
  5. ↑ LGBl. No. 12/2007
  6. ↑ LGBl. No. 60/2007. The purpose of this ordinance is to create suitable buffer zones to maintain the favorable condition of the species and habitats in the Natura 2000 area “Soren, Gleggen - Köblern, Schweizer Ried and Birken - Schwarzes Zeug”.
  7. ↑ LGBl. No. 28/2012.
  8. ↑ Nature Conservation Ordinance, LGBl. No. 36/2003, points 6 and 20.
  9. ^ Office of the Vorarlberg state government (ed.): Curlews, Snipe, Kiebitz & Co , Website: Naturschutzbund.at, p. 3.
  10. ^ Ordinance of the Vorarlberg state government on the "Streuewiesenbiotopverbund Rheintal-Walgau", LGBl. No. 61/1995.
  11. ↑ § 3 of the regulation of the Vorarlberg state government on the landscape protection area "Lauteracher Ried", LGBl. No. 82/1997, 63/2002.
  12. ↑ See graphic representation of the Office of the State Government of November 23, 2006, edition November 24, 2006, IVe-131.50 and January 20, 2012, Zl. IVe-131.54.
  13. ↑ European protected areas (Natura 2000) , website: alpenverein.at.

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