European protected area Spirkenwälder Innergamp

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The Innergamp European Protected Area ( Natura 2000 areas , also: Spirkenwälder Innergamp ) is located in the municipality of Nenzing in Vorarlberg , Austria in the Rätikon . It includes forest , especially mountain pines (Spirken). The mountain pines are considered to be "survivors" and can also grow in very nutrient-poor areas, as is the case here, but also in acidic subsoil, such as in raised bogs .

The purpose of the Innergamp European Protected Area is to protect the endangered wild native plant and animal species and their natural habitats living here.

Legal basis

In accordance with the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Ordinance, the Innergamp European Protected Area was designated as such with a simple state law. The flora-fauna-habitat directive 92/43 / EEC (FFH directive) of the European Union forms the basis for the protection .

topography

The Innergamp European Protected Area is located near the border between Liechtenstein and Austria (about 1.5 km as the crow flies) in the municipality of Nenzing and is roughly in the shape of a head with a Phrygian cap . The entire area is at an altitude of about 1510  m above sea level. A. up to 1820  m above sea level A. and has an area of ​​about 44 hectares. In the north-eastern part of the protected area of ​​the Lohnspitz ( 1801  m above sea level ). The Galinagrätle coming from the Galinakopf ( 2198  m above sea level ), to which the Lohnspitz belongs, forms part of the north-western border of the protected area. To the west, about 600 meters as the crow flies, is the Galinalpe (about 1570  m above sea level ) and to the northeast, about 400 meters away, the Vortdergampalpe (about 1530  m above sea level ), the Innergampalpe (about 1500  m above sea level ) , which gives the protected area its name A. ) is about 500 meters as the crow flies in a southerly direction.

Purpose and scope of protection

In accordance with the Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive (Annex I of the Habitats Directive), the priority habitat of mountain pine (montane and subalpine Pinus uncinata) on forests on gypsum and lime substrates is particularly protected for this protected area .

This European protected area is one of three more in the Rätikon to protect the mountain pine deposits ( European protected area Spirkenwälder Saminatal , European protected area Spirkenwald Oberer Tritt , European protected area Spirkenwälder Brandnertal ). These four protected areas cover the largest occurrences in Vorarlberg and around half of the Austria-wide spirke stocks.

Use and traffic

The European protected area is rarely used as a local recreation area. There are no public roads leading into the protected area.

literature

  • European Protected Areas Spirkenwälder , Office of the Vorarlberg State Government, Bregenz ( online ).
  • P. Huemer: Innergamp / Galinatal wilderness area (Austria, Vorarlberg; Principality of Liechtenstein) - a refuge for butterflies (Lepidoptera) , Dornbirn 2018, inatura - research online .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LGBl. No. 36/2003, Annex 1, FFH protected areas, no. 12.
  2. ↑ See graphic representation of the Office of the State Government of May 2, 2003, Zl. IVe-106.00.

Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 48.3"  E