European protected area Witmoos

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The European protected area Witmoos ( Natura 2000 areas ) is located in the municipality of Langen near Bregenz in Vorarlberg , Austria . It includes forest , individual trees and small groups of trees as well as a small raised bog .

The purpose of the European protected area Witmoos is the protection of endangered wild native plant and animal species and their natural habitats as well as the preservation of the centuries-old cultivated land.

history

The Witmoos is one of the few remaining moors in the municipality of Langen. The dead moss and birch moss have been destroyed in the last few decades by amelioration and drainage (in parts by conversion into intensive grassland). Peat was not extracted here intensively, probably because of the location, which meant that the original moor character of the area was preserved.

Legal basis

In accordance with the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Ordinance, the European protected area Witmoos 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 European protected area Witmoos is located southeast of Langen near Bregenz (about 1000 meters as the crow flies) and northwest of Doren (about 2200 meters as the crow flies). It is about 70 meters to Rotach , which is a little lower down . The entire area has only a slight gradient and is at an altitude of about 550  m above sea level. A. up to 580  m above sea level A. with an area of ​​about 18 hectares. It is similar in shape to an irregular, misshapen, elongated, lying figure eight and has a length of about 1000 meters and a maximum width of 270 meters, the narrowest point is only about 110 meters.

Purpose and scope of protection

In terms of the Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive (Annexes I and II of the Habitats Directive), the following features are relevant and protected for this protected area:

  • Priority living space
    • living raised bogs,
    • Alluvial forests with black alder (Alnus glutinosa) and common ash (Fraxinus excelsior).
  • Furthermore
    • degraded raised bogs that can be renatured,
    • Transitional and swinging turf bogs,
    • Peat bog ditches
    • calcareous fens.

Flora and fauna

The European protected area Witmoos is also known as Spirken-Hochmoor, which refers to the low-growing mountain pines (Spirken) that dominate here.

In Vorarlberg now rare plants such. For example: thread sedge (Carex lasiocarpa), middle sundew (Drosera intermedia) or brown beaked reed (Rhynchospora fusca) can still be found here. Also well represented are: cranberries , rosemary heather , round-leaved sundew and Scheidiges cottongrass . The western part of the Witmoos is mowed to produce litter.

literature

  • Georg Amann, Bianca Burtscher: Management plan for the Natura 2000 area Witmoo , Bregenz 2002, Office of the Vorarlberg state government.
  • Amann Georg: Vegetation studies in the Natura 2000 area Witmoos - repetitive mapping and establishment of transects (monitoring) in peripheral areas to intensive meadows , Bregenz 2008, Office of the Vorarlberg state government.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biotope Witmoos , website of the municipality of Langen.
  2. ↑ LGBl. No. 36/2003, Annex 1, FFH protected areas, no. 9.
  3. ↑ See graphic representation of the Office of the State Government May 2, 2003, Zl. IVe-106.00.
  4. ↑ List according to Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Ordinance, LGBl. No. 36/2003, Annex 1, No. 9.
  5. ↑ Georg Amann: Das Pflanzenleben Vorarlberg, Hohenems 2016, Bucher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-99018-369-4 , pp. 90, 101, 138.

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 10.4 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 45.2"  E